I should note that not everything I read in 2007 was on this list, because I didn't start tracking my reading until late May, and from August onwards I was largely tied up with life and work at my new university. Nothing for most of December '07 or January '08 was reported! This was also a unique moment in my life, as the year before I'd summarily rejected everything in my past and was actively trying to develop my own, independent view of the world. I've been building on that foundation ever since. Note that science, not history, is king of nonfiction! That will change, however: as I was finishing a degree in history, with a European emphasis, I read a lot of German, English, and French history later in the year, and would open 2008 with the same.
May 21st, 2007 - December 12th, 2007
- The Rapture, Jerry B Jenkins and Timothy LaHaye
- Kingdom Come, Jerry B Jenkins and Timothy LaHaye
- The Know-it-All, A.J. Jacobs
- The Everything Classical Mythology Book, Lesley Bolton
- The Osterman Weekend, Robert Ludlum
- Allegiance, Timothy Zahn
- Universe on a T-Shirt, Dan Falk
- An Intimate History of Humanity, Theodore Zeldin
- Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief, Lewis Wolpert
- Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran
- The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Isaac Asimov
- Hitler's Shadow War, Donald McCale
- Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
- The Valley of Horses, Jean M Auel
- The Tribe of Tiger, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Dolphin Days, Kenneth Norris
- Nightfall and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
- The Plains of Passage, Jean M Auel
- The Stand, Setphen King
- The Associate, Philip Margolin
- The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M Auel
- Theories for Everything; John Langone, Bruze Stutz, and Andrea Gianopoulos
- The Middle Ages, Dorothy Mills
- The German Empire, Michael Stuermer
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken
- A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
- Rickles' Book, Don Rickles
- Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J.K. Rowling
- The Complete Idiot's Guides to Turtles and Tortoises, Liz Palika
- The Rising Tide, Jeff Shaara
- Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
- Storms from the Sun, Michael Carlowicz and Ramon Lopez
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows, JK Rowling
- Shelters of Stone, Jean M Auel
- Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
- River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, FL Allen
- Infidel, Ayaan Hiris Ali
- Broca's Brain, Carl Sagan
- The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
- The End of Faith, Sam Harris
- The Darwin Awards, ed. Wendy Nortcutt
- Great Tales from English History 2, Robert Lacey
- Mephisto, Klauss Mann
- Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, Marion kaplan
- The Hundred Years War, Desmond Sewawrd
- Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey
- I Am America (And So Can You), Stephen Colbert
- The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, James S Corum
- The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, David Irving
- German into Nazis, Peter Fritzsche
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Montgomery: Biography of a City, Wayne Greenshaw
Oh, MySpace! Humorous side note - I got one of the emails a couple years ago when a bunch of people had their MySpace accounts compromised, that mine was one of the ones where the password may have been stolen. Works for me, someone should know the password because I sure as heck don't anymore!
ReplyDeleteI get the same warning when I sign into CreditKarma. Those were the days when MySpace was still kind of active!
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ReplyDeleteSix Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Nightfall and Other Stories
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Slaughterhouse-5
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The End of Faith
Meditations
TBR:
The Tribe of Tiger
The Hundred Years War
I REALLY like The Hundred Years war, by Seward. I've tried reading another book by him (Monks of War) but it wasn't near the same quality of narrative.
DeleteThe Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
ReplyDeleteWhales and Jacques Cousteau?! I need this book.
That is cool you majored in European history! I took a ton of history electives and would've liked to make it a double major, but it wasn't offered at my small campus (till about a year later, alas).
Now I'm curious to go back and read your Kurt Vonnegut reviews. He's an author much talked about, but I don't feel like I'd know what to expect.
The European concentration owes largely to the fact that two of my favorite professors were the European history dons, one focusing on older Europe (medieval, largely) and the other focusing on early modern Europe. They're the two guys I still go by and shoot the breeze with!
DeleteTo be honest, sometimes it's hard to know what to expect from Vonnegut when you've read him! I've read some of his fiction and some nonfiction collections over the years:
https://thisweekatthelibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/Kurt%20Vonnegut
Interesting and eclectic list. I read The Stand in the eighties when I was on a King kick. Mephisto and the Asimov's are also on my personal "have read" list.
ReplyDeleteMy background might add some sense to it -- the year before I'd revolted against the sect I was raised in, and was deliberately reading things that had been discouraged before (fantasy, horror, science). Mephisto was a product of my German history class, however!
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