Friday, January 11, 2008

The 2007 Reading List













Well here's the list of books I made it through in 2007. The number (19) may not be impressive to some voracious readers...but I think it's pretty amazing considering 2007 saw the wondrous arrival of my son and I didn't have much time to read. It's quite an eclectic list with a lot more U.S. History and economics than usual for me. It was a good year of reading material.


  • The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • Banker to the Poor (Microlending and the battle against world poverty) by Muhammad Yunus
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Collapse by Jared Diamond
  • Dining with the Devil by Os Guiness
  • 1776 by David McCullough
  • Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac
  • Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Candide by Voltaire
  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard
  • The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl