Smoke's 2007 Book List
Complete List of Books to Read in 2007 - 2008
(no way can I read all this in one year ... unless I win superlotto)
- Seek the Fair Land - Walter Macken
- The Beatles - Bob Spitz
- Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and For Those Who Want to Write Them - Francine Prose
- The Fate of Elephants - Doug Chadwick
- Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled and edited by Howard Kissel (Applause Acting Series) (Hardcover) - Howard Kissel, Stella Adler
- The Road Past Altamont - Gabriel Roy
- Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distractions, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life - Bonnie Friedman
- James Joyce - Edna O'Brien
- Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
- In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham(nonfiction)
- Meena: Heroine of Afghanistan - Melody Ermachild Chavis
- Fierce Attachments: A Memoir - Vivian Gornick (re-read)
- American Hollow - Rory Kennedy
- The Tree - John Fowles (text) and Frank Horvat (photographs)
Continues my obsession with trees - New York, New York : The City in Art and Literature [Hardcover] - Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Lucky Eyes and a High Heart: The Life of Maud Gonne - Nancy Cardozo
- Up in the Old Hotel - Joseph Mitchell
- Eamon DeValera - Tim Pat Coogan
- Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
- The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr
- Staying Connected to Your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They're Really Saying - Michael Riera
- Gods and Heroes of the Celts - Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
- The Music Lesson - Katharine Weber
- The Romance of American Communism - Vivian Gornick
- Simple Living - Jose Hobday
- Writing a Novel - Dorothy Bryant
- The Art of the Novel - Milan Kundera
- How to Write a Damn Good Novel - James Frey
- The Echo Maker - Richard Powers
- The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
- Memoir of a Race Traitor - Mab Segrest
- Ireland: A Social, Cultural, and Literary History 1791 - 1891 - James H. Murphy
- A Leg to Stand On - Oliver Sachs
- R is for Richochet - Sue Grafton
- The Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
- Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley
- Cinnamon Kiss - Walter Mosley
- Like Sound Through Water: A Mother's Journey Through Auditory Processing Disorder - Karen J. Foli
- How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe - Thomas Cahill
- The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
- The Everything Guide to Writing a Novel - Joyce and Jim Lavene
- Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love - edited by Anne Fadiman
- A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland - Rebecca Solnit
- On Beauty - Zadie Smith
- The Healing - Gayle Jones [re-reading]
- The Empress of Ireland: A Chronicle of an Unusual Friendship - Christopher Robbins
- The Situation and the Story:The Art of Personal Narrative - Vivian Gornick
- Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey
- Plough and Stars - Sean O'Casey
- Ireland: A Novel - Frank Delaney
- Catholic Girls: Stories, Poems, and Memoirs - Edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Patrice Vecchione
- All Will Be Well: A Memoir - John McGahern
- Grace Notes - Bernard MacLaverty [re-read]
- Lamb - Bernard MacLaverty
- Cal - Bernard MacLaverty
- Tales from Bective Bridge - Mary Lavin
- Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson [re-read]
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Other Plays - Martin McDonagh
- The Cripple of Inishmaan - Martin McDonagh
- Prisons We Choose to Live Inside - Doris Lessing
- Triptych and Iphegenia: Two Plays - Edna O'Brien
- Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan - Phillip Lopate
- The Irish: A Treasury of Art and Literature - Edited by Leslie Conron Carola
- The Illustrated History of New York - Ric Burns and James Sanders, with Lisa Ades
- The Transformation of Ireland - Diarmaid Ferriter
- The Story of the Irish Race - Seumas MacManus
- Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now - Helen Hayes and Anita Loos
- Crown of Empire: The Story of New York State - Paul Eldridge
- The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History - Edward Robb Ellis
- The Fifties - David Halberstam
- Working Class New York - Joshua B. Freeman
- The Illustrated History of Canada - edited by Craig Brown
- Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922 - 2002 - Terence Brown
- Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker - edited by David Remnick
- We Too Are Drifting - Gale Wilhelm
- Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
- Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America - Lillian Faderman
- The New York Irish - Edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher
- The New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century - Jed Perl
- The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga - Edward Rutherford
Updated to format better.
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