Books Read 2007

1. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
2. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles
3. Rex Libris: I, Librarian by James Turner
4. Trespass by Valerie Martin
5. The Soul of Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks
6. The Owl Service by Alan Garner
7. Rereadings, Anne Fadiman, editor
8. Alias the Cat by Kim Deitch
9. Trojan Women by Euripides
10. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
11. A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living Through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf by Ilana Simons
12. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
13. Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Alan Poe
14. Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
15. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Why We Read What We Read by John Heath and Lisa Adams
17. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
18. Letters and Social Aims by Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
20. Grub by Elise Blackwell
21. The Platform of Time by Virginia Woolf
22. Journal of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume One. By Ralph Waldo Emerson with annotations by Edward Waldo Emerson
23. Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
25. Self Help by Edward Docx
26. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
27. Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
28. War and the Iliad by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
29. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
30. The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts
31. Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. The Bhagavad-Gita
33. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
34. Ultravioleta by Laura Moriarty
35. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Fitzgerald, audio version
36. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
37. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
38. ROMAN Reading by Nick Senger
39. Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
40. Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
41. Never Let Me Go by Katzuo Ishiguro
42. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Briane Greene
43. Poetry and Commitment by Adrienne Rich
44. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
45. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. Edited by J. Peder Zane
46. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
47. Music Like Dirt by Frank Bidart
48. The Crooked Inheritance by Marge Piercy
49. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
50. The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. Summit Avenue by Mary Sharratt
52. Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez
53. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
54. Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes
55. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) by Jerome K. Jerome
56. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
57. The Works and Days and Theogony, and Shield of Herakles by Hesiod, translated by Richard Lattimore
58. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
59. This Sharpening by Ellen Dore Watson
60. Blood Child by Octavia E. Butler