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jeregenest ([personal profile] jeregenest) wrote2007-03-27 11:31 am
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A smattering of books I've read

I read way more than I ever remember to post about. Below the cut is a bunch of books I've read so far in 2007. Its not exhaustive as it doesn't have books not obtained from the library. I should really review more.


  • Intrigue : espionage and culture / Allan Hepburn.

  • The Jennifer morgue / Charles Stross.

  • Mathematicians in love / Rudy Rucker.

  • The water room / Christopher Fowler.

  • The wrestler's cruel study : a novel / Stephen Dobyns.

  • Lurker in the lobby : a guide to the cinema of H.P. Lovecraft / by Andrew Migliore and John Strysik.

  • Seventy-seven clocks / Christopher Fowler.

  • Full dark house / Christopher Fowler.

  • The terror : a novel / Dan Simmons.

  • Creepers : a novel / David Morrell.

  • Sex with the queen : 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics / Eleanor Herman.

  • A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII / Sarah Helm.

  • International Spy Museum handbook of practical spying / text by Jack Barth ; introduction by Peter Earnest ; illustrations by Steven Guarnaccia.

  • Lost cosmonaut : observations of an anti-tourist / Daniel Kalder.

  • Promethean ambitions : alchemy and the quest to perfect nature / William R. Newman.

  • Ten second staircase / Christopher Fowler.

  • Sodom and Gomorrah / Marcel Proust ; translated with an introduction and notes by John Sturrock ; general editor, Christopher Prendergast.

  • Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon.

  • Stagger Lee / written by Derek McCulloch ; drawn by Shepherd Hendrix.

  • The riddle of the compass : the invention that changed the world / Amir D. Aczel.

  • Subterranean worlds : a critical anthology / edited by Peter Fitting

  • Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy / Barbara Ehrenreich.

  • Hollow Earth : the long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations, and marvelous machines below the Earth's surface / David Standish.

  • Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds : ways of telling the self / Marina Warner.

  • Up above and down below / Sue Redding.

  • The areas of my expertise : a compendium of complete world knowledge compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order by myself / John Hodgman.

  • Conan : book of Thoth / script by Kurt Busiek and Len Wein ; art by Kelley Jones.

  • American fascists : the Christian Right and the war on America / Chris Hedges.

  • The robot builder's bonanza / Gordon McComb, Myke Predko.

  • The stone light / Kai Meyer ; translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford.

  • Shadows bend : a novel of the fantastic and unspeakable / David Barbour and Richard Raleigh.

  • Thunderstruck / Erik Larson.

  • Unknown quantity : a real and imaginary history of algebra / John Derbyshire.

  • Ink : the book of all hours / Hal Duncan.

  • Teranesia : a novel / by Greg Egan.

  • Triumph of the thriller : how cops, crooks, and cannibals captured popular fiction