2007: The year in books.

I read 39 books this year, though they’re not listed in any particular order. Standouts for the year were Soon I Will Be Invincible, by Austin Grossman and Lisey’s Story by Stephen King.

• The Little Blue Book of Rose Stories, by Peter Straub
• Shards of Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman
• Reap the Wild Wind, by Julie Czerneda
• The Aeneid, by Virgil
• The Language of the Night Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, by Ursula K Le Guin, Susan Wood
• The Brief History of the Dead, by Kevin Brokmeier
• The Precipice, by Ben Bova
• The Iliad, by Homer
• Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, by Seamus Heaney (translator)
• 1776, by David McCullough
• A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby
• Breakpoint, by Richard A. Clarke
• Cell, by Stephen King
• Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert
• Cloud of Sparrows, by Takashi Matsuoka
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemmingway
• Forever Odd, by Dean Koontz
• Freakanomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Goblin Quest, by Jim C. Hines
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling
• Lankhmar book 1: Swords and Deviltry, by Fritz Leiber
• Lisey’s Story, by Stephen King
• Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde
• Nineteen Eighty Four, by George Orwell
• Odd Thomas, by Dean Koontz
• Reinventing Comics, by Scott McCloud
• Sailing Time’s Ocean, by Terrence M. Green
• Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
• Soon I will be Invincible, by Austin Grossman
• The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, by Jacobson & Colon
• The Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
• The Dark Tower 5: Wolves of the Calla, by Stephen King
• The Dark Tower 6: Song of Susannah, by Stephen King
• The Dark Tower 7: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
• The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan Furst
• The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi
• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
• Under Cover of Darkness, by Julie E. Czerneda and Jana Paniccia eds.