In 2007 I read: 47 Books

**The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
I, Wabenzi by Rafi Zabor
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
**Office of Innocence by Thomas Keneally
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman
The Fat Man in History by Peter Carey
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
The Grand Complication by Alan Kurzweil
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Long Spoon Lane by Anne Perry
Iberia by James Michener
The Meeting Room by Martin Amis
**The Race for Timbuctou by Frank T. Kryza
Master of the Moor by Ruth Rendell
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
**Master by Colm Toibin
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez Reverte
The Fifth Woman by Henning Markel
A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George
Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
Silver Spire by Robert Goldsborough
Pastime by Robert B. Parker
Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
I, Richard by Elizabeth George
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Walking to Vermont by Christopher Wren
**e Lost life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert
Devils Corner by Lisa Scottoline
**e Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Washington Square by Henry James
Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodwin
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler
13 Steps Down By Ruth Rendell

This is my reading for 2006. 65 books,
Pages 21,445 pages
Jack Knave & Fool by Bruce Alexander 406
Facing the Congo by Jeffrey Taylor 260
Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri 295
Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez 369
Maple Leaf Rag by Brooks 345
Brick Lane by Monica Ali 415
From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth 178
F. is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton 308
The Maltese Goddess by Lyn Hamilton 245
O Albany! by William Kennedy 384
The Dictionary of Maquio 394
Kepler's Witch 363
The Double by Jose Saramago 336
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz 144
The Reader by Bernhard Schlinck 224
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday 212
The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally 352
The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado 368
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe 150
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul 564
Last Respects by Catherine Aird 162
The Book of Evidence by John Banville 220
Here's to You, Jesusa/Elena Poniatowska320
Kafka's Curse by Achmat Dangor 225
Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina 340
Snakepit by Moses Isegawa 272
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 318
Rouse Up All Ye Young Men of the New Age/Oe 259
The Carpathians by Janet Frame 196
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 642
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss 341
With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George 774
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Mark Haddon 221
Tales of the Tikongs 93
The City of Falling Angels by John Behrendt 398
Red Azalea by An Chee Min 306
Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes 295
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster 321
Scroll of Seduction by Gioconda Belli 323
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw 261
The Lost Painting by Jonathan Haar 271
The Last Duel by Eric Jager 209
A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss 393
Nine Hills to Nambonkaha by Sarah Erdman 312
Drop City by T.C. Boyle 444
The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini 326
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 435`
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George 420
The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin 273
Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell 378
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman 502
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown 454
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 691
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 227
Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky 312
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George 442
he Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern 482
Intuition by Allegra Goodman 344
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 234
The Sewing Circles of Herat by Christina Lamb 339
The Trouble with Tom by Paul Collins 278
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong 260
Welcome to Havana, Sr Hemingway / AJEstrada 335
Hard Time by Sara Paretsky 495 Pages read 21455



Challenge: 5 books, 5 countries, 5 continents
Challenge details at: www.bookcrossing.com/---/3056472

South America:

1. Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez (Argentina)
2. The War of the Saints by Jorge Amado (Brazil)

North/Central America
1. F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton (U.S.)
House made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (U.S.)
2. The Maltese Goddess by LynHamilton (Canada)
3. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad)
4. Here's to You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska EXCELLENT, RECOMMENDED
5. The Scroll of Seduction by Gioconda Belli (Nicaragua)
6. Welcome to Havana, Sr Hemingway by Alfredo Jose Estrada (Cuba)

Europe:
1. Maple Leaf Rag by Brooks (Scotland)
2. The Double by Jose Saramago (Portugal)
X The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin (Russia)DON'T BOTHER I couldn't finish it and I don't want credit for reading this book
3. Liquidation by Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
4. Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina (Spain)
5. The Book of Evidence by John Banville
6. Last Respects by Catherine Aird
7. The Blackwater Lighthouse by Collm Toibin (Ireland)

Asia:
1. From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth (India)
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (India)
2. Brick Lane by Monica Ali (Bangladesh)
3. The Dictionary of Maqaio (China)
4. Rouse Up, All Ye YOung Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
5. The Kite Runner by Khalid Housseini
6. Red Azalea by An Chee Min

Africa
1. A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
2 Kafka's Curse by Achmat Dangor (South Africa)
3. Snakepit by Moses Isegawa (Uganda)

Australia & Oceania
1. Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Australia)
2. The Carpathians by Janet Frame (New Zealand)
3. Tales of Tikongs
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False Starts I recorded how many pages I read before I gave up:
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susannah Clark. I put it down and find no strong desire to go back to it. 277
2. Pilgrim by Timothy Findley. (unreadable) 212
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12-05 I would love to meet some other readers for chat--book and otherwise--, recommendations, etc. I read a lot of mysteries. Current favorites are Martha Grimes and Elizabeth George -- I'm comfortable with them, but am trying new (to me) writers as well. I also read a lot of what Barnes & Noble calls "travel essays" and Borders "travel narratives". One of my favorites is Peter Hessler's River Town. Nice to make your acquaintance.