52 Books in 52 Weeks - 2007 Edition

I should begin by admitting defeat. I only read 49 books in 2007, 3 short of my intended goal. The cause of my defeat can be traced back to February and March, when I managed to read one piddly book over a two-month span. I made heroic efforts in May (8 books) and July (10 books), but they weren't enough. I plan to read 55 books this year to make up for last year's shortfall.

Of the 49 books I read, 33 were fiction and 16 were non-fiction. Only 4 were written by women and 3 of those were written by the same woman.

Who were the hot authors of 2007? P.G. Wodehouse (5), Terry Pratchett (4), Jim Butcher (3), J.K. Rowling (3), and Kurt Vonnegut (3).

While statistics are fun, lists are even better, so let's get to it. Titles in bold are my Top 5 Favorite Books of 2007.

1. Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
2. The Highwayman by R.A. Salvatore
3. The Iraq Study Group Report by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton
4. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
5. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
6. Goodbye to a River by John Graves
7. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
8. Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse
9. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
10. I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This! and Other Things That Strike Me as Funny by Bob Newhart
11. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
12. Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
13. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
14. The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson
15. Requiem For An Assassin by Barry Eisler
16. Dispatches From The Edge by Anderson Cooper
17. The Old Ball Game by Frank Deford
18. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
19. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
20. At the Mercy of the River by Peter Stark
21. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
22. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
23. Battlestar Galactica by Gary A. Larsen and Robert Thurman
24. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
25. Winston Churchill by John Keegan
26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
27. Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
28. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
30. Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
31. On the Wrong Track by Steve Hockensmith
32. The Virginian, Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister
33. Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse
34. Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser
35. The Last Season by Eric Blehm
36. Mike by P.G. Wodehouse
37. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
38. George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots by Dave R. Palmer
39. Making Money by Terry Pratchett
40. The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 by Robert Cahn and Horace M. Albright
41. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer by Daniel Josephs
42. Strata by Terry Pratchett
43. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
44. One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke and Sam Keith
45. Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
46. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
47. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
48. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
49. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher