Readings, 2007

In 2007 I read the following books:

Code:

italics = reread
asterisk = new (to me) author (*)
bold = my favorites this year
exclamation mark = !unfinished
strikethrough = never finished, never will

1. Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang (*)
2. The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George Hicks (*)
3. Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
4. Accelerando Charles Stross (*)
5. Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety, by Wendy Kaminer (*)
6. Tatja Grimm’s World by Vernor Vinge
7. The Koreans by Michael Breen (*)
8. Stone by Adam Roberts
9. Sin City Book 6: Booze, Broads, and Bullets by Frank Miller (*)
10. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (*)
11. Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic (*)
12. Meet Me in the Moon Room by Ray Vukcevich (*) (Thank, Tina!)
13. Korea Bug: The Best of the Zine that Infected a Nation, by J. Scott Burgeson (*)
14. Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling
15. Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, translated by Yair Reiner (*)
16. Inventory by Dionne Brand
17. Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture by John Strausbaugh. (*)
18. The Weight of Oranges/Miner’s Pond by Anne Michaels
19. The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (*)
20. Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass (*)
21. Deconstruction and Criticism (Continuum Impacts) by by Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J. Hillis Miller , Harold Bloom, and Paul De Man
22. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
23. Titus Crow, Volume 1: The Burrowers Beneath & The Transition of Titus Crow by Brian Lumley
24. Angry Young Spaceman by Jim Munroe (*)
25. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels (*)
26. Space War Blues by Richard Lupoff (*)
27. The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
28. Magnificent Corpses by Anneli Rufus (*)
29. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
30. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (*)
31. What Mad Universe? by Frederic Brown (*)
32. A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan’s Germ Warfare Operation by Daniel Barenblatt (*)
33. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
34. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
35. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
36. The Ma Rok Biographies by Seo Giwon (*), translated by Kevin O’Rourke
37. Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin (*)
38. She Dreams in Red by Alexis Kienlen
39. Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow (*)
40. Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-seon (*) and Choi Young-mi (*), translated by Yu Jung-yul(*) and James Kimbrell (*)
41. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
42. Superman — Sunday Classics: 1939-1943 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
43. It’s Superman!, by Tom De Haven (*)
44. Toast by Charles Stross
45. Ghost Country by Steve Noyes (*)
46. The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker
47. Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (*), translated by Geoffrey Bownas (*)
48. Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (*)
49. Love as a Foreign Language (Vol 1 & 2) by J. Torres (*) and Eric Kim (*)
50. Journey of Joenes by Robert Sheckley (*)
51. The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick
52. Parecon: Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert (*)
53. The Coming Anarchy by Robert Kaplan (*)
54. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
55. !The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea, translated by Jahyun Kim Haboush
56. The Hye Ch’O Diary: Memoir of the Pilgrimage to the Five Regions of India (*)
57. Haunted: A Novel of Stories, by Chuck Palahniuk
58. Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry Brooks (*)

Magazines:

1. F&SF, October/November 2007
2. F&SF December 2006
3. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, #11 (*) (Thanks, Tina!)
   
4. F&SF January 2007
5. F&SF February 2007
6. F&SF March 2007
7. Drive-By English by J. Scott Burgeson
8. Interzone 208
9. Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2007
10. Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2007
11. Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2007
12. Interzone 209
13. Fantasy Magazine, #5 (December 2006)
14. Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2007
15. Asimov’s SF October/November 2007
16. Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2007
17. Asimov’s SF, June 2007
18. Interzone 210
19. Fantasy Magazine Spring 2007
    

That’s a lot more books than I thought I’d read — more than one a week is pretty stunning, given the amount of travel I did, and given how slow I am at reading. (And some of those books, like Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, are massive tomes.)

I’m pleased and impressed. At the moment, though, I have a surprisingly big list of books on the go:

• several issues of magazines to which I’m subscribed but have fallen behind on (Asimov’s, Interzone, and F&SF are the most prominent, though there are issues of LCRW, Sibyl’s Garage, Subterranean, and the Kyoto Journal awaiting my attentions too)
• Getting Things Done by David Allen (because being more organized sounds great to me)
• Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (on my ebook reader, though I have a copy)
• The Octopus by Frank Norris (on my ebook reader, though I have a copy)
• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (though it’s a slog for me, because of how I feel about some of his ideas)
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Snow by Adam Roberts
• Blindsight by Peter Watts (on my ebook reader, though I have a copy)
• Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas (on my ebook reader, though I have a copy)
• Overclocked by Cory Doctorow (on my ebook reader, though I have a copy, and though I’ve read everything but The Seige online as well as heard it all in podcast form… but I read “When Sysadmins Rule the Earth” recently, and I do want to read “The Seige” as well)

One note: while I do try to keep up with the online zines, like Strange Horizons and Clarkesworld, I don’t list them here. I’m only counting printed books, because otherwise I’ll be listing short stories endlessly, and who needs that?

Even so, I’m impressed: almost 60 books this year, on top of a good stack of magazines. And I’m still behind on the subscriptions! (Though I’ve decided to let one lapse.)