Best of 2007

Okay, yeah... this post is running late, but it's finished now:

These are what I consider to be the best of my 2007 Book List. I have attempted to exclude things I was rereading (but may have failed wherever I failed to note such in my origianl entry). Entries are in the order read and not rated within the list or seperated by genre, reality, or style.

Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip

The Rose and the Beast by Francesca Lia Block

Getting Wet: Adventure in the Japanese Bath by Eric Talmadge

The Elephants of Posnan by Orson Scott Card

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi

Widdershins by Charles De Lint

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

The Privilage of the Sword by Ellen Kushner

The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book by Frank Warren

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (and the following volumes)

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham, etc.

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (and the following volumes)

Libaries: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles

Orphans of Chaos; Fugitives of Chaos; Titans of Chaos by John C. Wright

The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

Goodbye, 2008.

214. Heroes, Vol. 1. (great fun, even if you watch the show, and even if you don't.)

199. Blood Alone 4

200.Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (Some of the best science fiction I've read in years.)

201. (?)

202. The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic by Darby Penny & Peter Stastney. Photos by Lisa Rinzler. (Very interesting, and depressing.)

203. Quakeland by Francesca Lia Block (Not Block's very best, but still wonderful in it's own way.)

204. Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (re)

205. Searching For Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (re)

206. Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (re)

207. 500 Pendants & Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments, edited by Marthe Le Van, etc. (Wicked lovely)

208. Midsummer Snowballs by Andy Goldsworthy

209. The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley (re) (absolutely a classic.)

210. 360 Paris by Nick Wood

211. At Home With Books: How Booklovers Live With and Care for Their Libraries by Estelle Ellis (library-dreams)

212. Under Antarctic Ice: the Photographs of Norbert Wu (Gorgeous)

213. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (Fantastic!)

Who loves Edward Gorey?

187. Inked: 42 people, 42 stories. By Carey Hart

188. The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

189. Donald & the ... by Peter F. Neumeyer & Edward Gorey

190. The Iron Tonic: Or a Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley by Edward Gorey

191. The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey

192. Donald has a Difficulty by Peter F. Neumeyer & Edward Gorey

193. While You Are Sleeping by Alexis Deacon

194. Bats in the Library, written & illustrated by Brian Lis

195. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (re)

196. Different Dances by Shel Silverstein (re)

197. The Glass of Time by Micheal Cox (sequel to The Meaning of Night)

198. The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne Harris (sequel to Chocolat)

whoo-ho! Look! Two posts in a month!

178. Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey (re)

179. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (re)

180. The Dying Animal by Philip Roth (I read this after watching Elegy which is a movie based on the novel. The narration of the moview was exceedingly well written and I was delighted to find that most of my favorite lines were direct quotes. I may need to read more Philip Roth.)

181. A Soul in a Bottle by Tim Powers

182. Boris & Bella by Carolyn Crimi & Gris Grimly (Picture book about getting along with people with different cleanliness values. Illustrations reminecent of the world of Tim Burton.

183. Stellaluna by Jenell Cannon (Picture book about a bat learning how she is differnt from birds. Delightful illustrations could easily stand alone.)

184. Once Upon a Tine in the North by Philip Pullman (Takes place in Lyra's world (see Golden Compass) but not in Oxford instead this is a story of the cowboy aeronaut and how he came to befriend the polar bear prince.)

185. Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey (re)

186. Paris: City of Light by Xavier Richer, Jean-Marie Boelle & Ian Trickett

154. Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas

155. Frank Miller's Sin City: Vol. 1- The Hard Goodbye

156. Frank Miller's Sin City: Vol. 2- A Dame to Kill For

157. Learning to Love You More by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July

158. Reading Women by Stefan Bollmann

159. White Oleander by Janet Fitch

160. Frank Miller's Sin City: Vol. 3-The Big Fat Kill

161. One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keefe

162. The Most Beautiful Libraries in The World, photos by Guillaume De Laubier, text by Jacques Bosser, foreword by James H. Billington

163. Lady in the Water: a bedtime story by M. Night Shyamalan

164. Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Novels

165. Warriors of Art: A Guide to Contemporary Japanese Artists by Yumi Yamaguchi

166. 1000 Artist Trading Cards: Innovative and Inspiring Mixed Media ATCs by Patricia Bolton

167. 100 Butterflies and Moths by Jeffery C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen, adn Winifred Hall

168. The Book of Air and Shadows by Micheal Gruber

169. Road Trip! Zits Sketchbook #7

170. Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (Unexpectedly wonderous.)

171. The Tale of Genji: art by Yoshitak Amano

172. The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie (Delicious.)

173. Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey

174. After School Nightmare Vol. 8 by Setona Mizushiro

175. Apartment Therapy presents Real Homes, Real People, hundreds of Design Solutions by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan with Jill Slater and Janel Laban

176. Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (re)

177. God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo (re)

art, comics, chaos

145. Comic book Tattoo: Narrative At Inspired by the Lyrics & Music of Tori Amos (Utterly Gorgeous, need not be a Tori fan to appriciate.)

146. Orlando Bloom has Ruined Everything: A Foxtrot Collection by Bill Amend

147. The Quotable Book Lover edited by Ben Jacobs and Helena Hialmarsson

148. In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine

149. The 1000 Journals Project by Someguy

150. Zits Unzipped Sketchbook 5

151. This Is Who I Am: Our Beauty in All Shapes and Sizes by Rosanne Olsen

152. Are We An "Us"? Zits Sketchbook 4

153. Titians of Chaos by John C. Wright (re) (Have I said enough nice things about this trilogy yet?)