Murph Reading List 2007

From Politiurgist

A list of books I've read in 2007, in roughly chronological order. Italics are fiction. A * denotes a book I've read before.

• TH Watkins - The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America
• Harry Turtledove - The End of the Beginning
• William Least Heat-Moon - River Horse
• Steven Johnson - The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
• Garrison Keillor - Love Me
• Orson Scott Card
  • Empire
  • Shadow of the Giant
• Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  • Dragon Wing *
  • Elven Star *
  • (10) Fire Sea *
  • Serpent Mage *
  • The Hand of Chaos
  • Into the Labyrinth
  • The Seventh Gate
• Rudy Rucker
  • Mathematicians in Love
  • Gnarl!
  • Postsingular
  • Spaceland
• Paul Hawken
  • with L Hunter Lovins, and Amory Lovins - Natural Capitalism *
  • (20) Blessed Unrest
• Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
• S.M. Stirling - The Sky People
• Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac
• China Mieville - The Scar
• Ray Oldenburg - The Great Good Place
• Shay Salomon - Little House on a Small Planet
• Richard Register - Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
• F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon
• Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
• (30) Mike Davis - Dead Cities
• Bill McKibben - Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
• Paul Levinson
  • The Plot to Save Socrates
  • The Consciousness Plague
• Neil Gaiman - American Gods *
• Greg Bear - Quantico
• Randy Stoecker - Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside *
• Allen Steele - Spindrift
• Chris Anderson - The Long Tail
• Barbara Kingsolver
  • Prodigal Summer
  • (40) Pigs in Heaven
  • The Poisonwood Bible
  • Small Things
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Joss Whedon - Fray
• Neal Stephenson
  • Quicksilver *
  • The Big U
  • The Confusion
• Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Stewart Brand - How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
• (50) Andrew Hurley - Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture
• Terry Moore - Strangers In Paradise: I Dream of You
• Andreas Killen - 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of the Post-Sixties
• Robert Frank - Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
• Paul Clemens - Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir
• Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

(* = re-read)

See also Murph Reading List 2006