My Weekly Book

Summary of books read in 2007 – arranged by genre (68):

* = standout books

Thrillers (8)
The Gardens of the Dead – William Brodrick (July)
The Body Farm – Patricia Cornwell (July)
Sleeper – Paul Adam (October)
The Wine of Angels – Phil Rickman (December) *
Modesty Blaise – Peter O’Donnell (December)
Sabre Tooth – Peter O’Donnell (December)
I, Lucifer – Peter O’Donnell (December)
A Taste for Death – Peter O’Donnell (December)

Crime/Noir/Roman Policier (15)
Darkness In My Hand – Frederic Lindsay (January)
Seeking Whom He May Devour – Fred Vargas (January)
Blacklist – Sara Paretsky (January)
Blue Shoes and Happiness – Alexander McCall Smith (February)
D is for Deadbeat – Sue Grafton (February)
The Endings Man – Frederic Lindsay (March)
The Three Evangelists – Fred Vargas (March) *
E is for Evidence – Sue Grafton (November)
F is for Fugitive – Sue Grafton (November)
G is for Gumshoe – Sue Grafton (November)
H is for Homicide – Sue Grafton (December)
I is for Innocent – Sue Grafton (December)
J is for Judgment – Sue Grafton (December)
K is for Killer – Sue Grafton (December)
The Lamorna Wink – Martha Grimes (December)

Non-fiction (16)
Elizabeth the Great – Elizabeth Jenkins (January)
The Quest for the Golden Hare – Bamber Gascoigne (Re-read) (March) *
Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-City Ambulance – Tom Reynolds (April)
Portrait of a Killer – Patricia Cornwell (April) *
Last Chance to See – Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (April)
The Assassination of Princess Diana – Noel Botham (May)
Death’s Acre: Inside the legendary Body Farm – Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson (May)
Think On Your Feet: 10 steps to better decision-making and problem solving at work – Jeremy Kourdi (June)
The Ghost of Cock Lane: Murder, sex and haunting in Dr Johnson’s London – Paul Chambers (June) *
GPS for Dummies – Joel McNamara (June)
The Maul and the Pear Tree – PD James and TA Critchley (July) *
Freakonomics – Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner (July)
Love and War in the Apennines – Eric Newby (November) *
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser (December)
An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore (December)
God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution – Christopher Hill (December)

Graphic novels/Books about graphic novels (10)
The Sandman Companion – Hy Bender (January)
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman et al (March)
The Sandman: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman et al (May)
The Sandman: Dream Country (reread) (June)
The Sandman: Season of Mists (September) *
The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (October)
Modesty Blaise: The Gabriel Set-up – Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway (December)
Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste – Warren Ellis et al (December)
Alias – Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos et al (December)
Modesty Blaise: Mister Sun – Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway (December)

Literature (4)
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe (April) *
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake (September) *
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake (October)
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (November) *

Contemporary/Literary Fiction (11)
Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin (January) *
Close Range – Annie Proulx (February) *
44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith (February) *
The Sunday Philosophy Club – Alexander McCall Smith (March)
More Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin (March)
Espresso Tales – Alexander McCall Smith (March)
Further Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin (April)
Don’t Look Now and other stories – Daphne du Maurier (May)
An Instance of the Fingerpost – Iain Pears (August) *
Love Over Scotland – Alexander McCall Smith (September)
Two and a Half Pillars of Wisdom – Alexander McCall Smith (November)

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Far-Fetched Fiction (3)
Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman (May) *
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury (re-read) (June)
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov (June)

Children’s (1)
Masquerade – Kit Williams (re-read) (March) *