Literature 2007

General Comments

I enjoy reading books. I enjoy buying books. I have a very large number of books that have yet to be read. I view this as a form of life insurance. As long as the list of unread books is large, I will never lack from something to do.

I have created a table to monitor my reading of Literature. Below is the table from last year that shows the books I purchased since 2002 and which I had not yet read. The entries with a yellow background identify the books that I read in 2007. This indicates that I read a total of 18 books from previous years as well as 23 new books. However I also bought an additional 23 books in 2007, so at the end of the year the list of unread books actually lengthened.

Date Bought

Author

Title

Read

July 10/02 Dave Eggars A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Aug 28/07

Rudy Wiebe The Temptations of Big Bear

Dec 28/02 Wayne Johnston The Navigator of New York Jun 09/07

Dec 29/02 Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer

Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov May 22/07

Jan. 11/03 Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound

George Fetherling (Ed.) The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

Jan 18/03 V. S. Naipaul Beyond Belief

Feb. 12/03 Royall Tyler (trans.) Japanese No Dramas

Feb. 15/03 Andrew Miller Oxygen Jun 13/07

April 1/03 David Mitchell Number 9 Dream Aug 17/07

June 28/03 Isaac Adamson Dreaming Pachinko Jun 22/07

Oct 20/03 Ann-Marie MacDonald The Way the Crow Flies

Oct. 24/03 E. M. Forster Howards End Aug 06/07

Anton Chekhov Ward No. 6 and Other Stories

Oct. 25/03 William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!

Nov. 23/03 M. G. Vassanji The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Feb. 23/04 W. O. Mitchell Since Daisy Creek Aug 21/07

May 24/04 Monique Proulx The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle Jan 24/07

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

July 08/04 Norman Levine The Ability to Forget

Norman Levine By a Frozen River Jun 30/07

August 21/04 John Bemrose The Island Walkers

Louis de Bernieres Birds Without Wings

Oct. 10/04 Rumi Mystical Poems of Rumi 2

Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Jul 31/07

J. M. Coetzee Age of Iron

Don DeLillo Libra

Oct. 22/04 John Milton Paradise Lost

June 13/05 Monica Ali Brick Lane

July 23/05 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner

Sept 13/05 Cintra Wilson Colors Insulting to Nature

Sept 14/05 Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper

Michael Winter The Big Why Feb 07/07

Virginia Woolf Selected Works Jan 14/07

Sept 16/05 Italo Calvino Difficult Loves

Italo Calvino The Baron in the Trees Mar 23/07

Sept 20/05 Wayson Choy All That Matters

Beth Powning The Hatbox Letters

Sept 27/05 Miriam Toews Swing Low

Oct 07/05 Sandra Birdsell Children of the Day

Alice Munro Runaway Mar 15/07

Nov 04/05 Pierre Berton Prisoners of the North

Dec 29/05 Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 2)

Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 4)

Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 5)

Mar 11/06 Latifa My Forbidden Face Sep 22/07

Mar 21/06 Stephen Donaldson The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Sep 08/07

June 15/06 Cao Xueqin The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 3)

Oct 3/06 Mark Haddon A Spot of Bother Jan 30/07

Mar 08/07 Jeffery Deaver The Bone Collector May 31/07

Jeffery Deaver The Coffin Dancer Jun 04/07

Mar 12/07 Orhan Pamuk Snow

Orhan Pamuk Istanbul

Mar 19/07 J. R. Moehringer The Tender Bar

Rudy Wiebe Of This Earth Apr 01/07

Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone May 27/07

Leonard Cohen Book Of Longing Jun 01/07

Mar 28/07 Cormac McCarthy The Road Apr 04/07

Haruki Murakami Kafka On The Shore Jul 24/07

Apr 25/07 Michael Ondaatje Divisadero Dec 28/07

Walter Isaacson Einstein

May 16/07 Wayne Grady Where the Silence Rings Jun 09/07

Wayne Grady Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze

Lee Iacocca Where Have All the Leaders Gone? Jun 06/07

May 22/07 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Jun 14/07

Jun 10/07 Jeffery Deaver The Empty Chair Jul 02/07

Jun 11/07 Don McKay Deactivated West 100 Jul 25/07

Jun 14/07 Don McKay Strike/Slip Sep 10/07

July 24/07 Anton Chekov The Undiscovered Chekov: 43 New Stories

Sei Shonagon The Pillow Book

Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

July 31/07 Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Alexander Pushkin The Collected Stories

Aug 07/07 Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Aug 19/07 Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun

David Mitchell Cloud Atlas

Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children

Ismail Kadare The Successor

Jed Rubenfeld The Interpretation of Murder

Aug 26/07 Mary Lawson The Other Side of the Bridge

Sep 15/07 Elliot Perlman Three Dollars Sep 27/07

Richard Flanagan The Sound of One Hand Clapping Oct 16/07

John Banville The Untouchable Oct 08/07

Oct 04/07 Les Murray Selected Poems

Sheryl McCorry Diamonds and Dust Oct 10/07

Ivan Turgenev First Love Oct 08/07

Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Oct 08/07

Oct 17/07 Edited by All Valleau & Jack Finnbogason The Nelson Introduction to Literature Oct 27/07

Nov 02 /07 Bob Dylan Dylan on Dylan Nov 09/07

Dec 11/07 Elliot Perlman Seven Types of Ambiguity Dec 22/07

Dec 13/07 Ken Follett The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett World Without End

Elizabeth Hay Late Nights on Air

Bryce Courtney Sylvia

Antony & Cleopatra Colleen McCullough

The following table lists the novels and other forms of literature that I read in 2007. It includes the books from the above table as well as a few books that were purchased before 2002. This is an easier table to see the pattern of reading over the last year, whereas the first table gives a better sense of the list of unread books.

Date Start

Author

Date

Title of Novel
Date End

Nov 27/06 Julia Briggs 2005 Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life Jan 14/07

Nov 30/06 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room Jan 02/07

Dec 28/06 Alice Munro 2006 The View From Castle Rock Jan 01/07

Jan 07/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Orlando Jan 07/07

Jan 10/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - The Waves Jan 11/07

Jan 13/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas Jan 13/07

Jan 14/07 Virginia Woolf 2005 Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts Jan 14/07

Jan 17/07 Jonathan Raban 1999 Passage to Juneau Jan 21/07

Jan 22/07 Monique Proulx 2003 The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle Jan 24/07

Jan 25/07 Mark Haddon 2006 A Spot of Bother Jan 30/07

Jan 31/07 Michael Winter 2004 The Big Why Feb 07/07

Feb 07/07 Helen McCullough 1988 The Tale of the Heike Feb 25/07

Feb 26/07 Jeffrey Deaver 2006 The Cold Moon Mar 03/07

Mar 08/07 Alice Munro 2004 Runaway Mar 15/07

Mar 16/7 Umberto Eco 2002 Baudolino Mar 21/07

Mar 22/07 Italo Calvino 1959 The Baron in the Trees Mar 23/07

Mar 24/07 Rudy Wiebe 2006 Of This Earth Apr 01/07

Apr 02/07 Cormac McCarthy 2006 The Road Apr 04/07

Apr 05/07 Fyodor Dostoevsky 1990 The Brothers Karamasov May 22/07

May 23/07 Ishmael Beah 2007 A Long Way Gone May 27/07

May 28/07 Jeffery Deaver 1997 The Bone Collector May 31/07

Jun 01/07 Leonard Cohen 2006 The Book Of Longing Jun 01/07

Jun 02/07 Jeffery Deaver 1998 The Coffin Dancer Jun 04/07

June 05/07 Lee Iacocca 2007 Where Have All The Leaders Gone? Jun 06/07

Jun 06/07 Wayne Johnston 2002 The Navigator of New York Jun 09/07

Jun 09/07 Wayne Grady 2007 Where the Silence Rings Jun 09/07

Jun 13/07 Andrew Miller 2001 Oxygen Jun 13/07

Jun 14/07 Kurt Vonnegut 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five Jun 14/07

Jun 16/07 Ann Patchett 2001 Bel Canto Jun 18/07

Jun 19/07 Isaac Adamson 2003 Dreaming Pachinko Jun 22/07

Jun 23/07 Norman Levine 2000 By a Frozen River Jun 30/07

Jun 30/07 Jeffery Deaver 2000 The Empty Chair Jul 02/07

Jul 02/07 Alexander Pushkin 1830 Eugene Onedin Jul 03/07

Jul 04/07 T. J. Binyon 2002 Pushkin: A Biography Jul 16/07

Jul 17/07 Haruki Murakami 2005 Kafka on the Shore Jul 24/07

Jul 25/07 Don McKay 2005 Deactivated West 100 Jul 25/07

Jul 29/07 Franz Kafka 1993 The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Jul 31/07

Aug 01/07 E. M. Forster 1910 Howards End Aug 06/07

Aug 07/07 David Mitchell 2001 Number 9 Dream Aug 17/07

Aug 18/07 W. O. Mitchell 1984 Since Daisy Creek Aug 21/07

Aug 22/07 Dave Eggers 2001 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Aug 28/07

Aug 29/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book One. The Wounded Land Aug 31/07

Sep 01/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Two. The One Tree Sep 05/07

Sep 06/07 Stephen Donaldson 1996 The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Three. White Gold Wielder Sep 08/07

Sep 09/07 Don McKay 2006 Strike/Slip Sep 10/07

Sep 11/07 Marcel Proust 1992 The Captive. v 5 of In Search of Lost Time Sep 21/07

Sep 22/07 Latifa 2002 My Forbidden Face Sep 22/07

Sep 23/07 Elliot Perlman 1998 Three Dollars Sep 27/07

Sep 28/07 John Banville 1997 The Untouchable Oct 08/07

Oct 08/07 Omar Khayyam 12 C The Rubaiyet of Omar Khayyam Oct 08/07

Oct 08/07 Ivan Turgenev 1860 First Love Oct 08/07

Oct 09/07 Sheryl McCorry 2007 Diamonds and Dust Oct 10/07

Oct 11/07 Richard Flanagan 1997 The Sound of One Hand Clapping Oct 16/07

Oct 17/07 Al Valleau & Jack Finnbogason (Eds.) 2004 The Nelson Introduction to Literature Oct 27/07

Oct 28/07 Marcel Proust 1992 The Prisoner. v 6 of In Search of Lost Time Nov 01/07

Nov 02/07 Bob Dylan 2006 Dylan on Dylan Nov 09/07

Dec 11/07 Elliot Perlman 2003 Seven Types of Ambiguity Dec 22/07

Dec 24/07 Michael Ondaatje 2007 Divisadero Dec 28/07

Dec 29/07 J. R. Moehringer 2006 The Tender Bar

Date Bought	Author	Title	Read
July 10/02	Dave Eggars	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Aug 28/07
	Rudy Wiebe	The Temptations of Big Bear
Dec 28/02	Wayne Johnston	The Navigator of New York	Jun 09/07
Dec 29/02	Barbara Kingsolver	Prodigal Summer
	Fyodor Dostoevsky	The Brothers Karamazov	May 22/07

Jan. 11/03	Alan Cumyn	Burridge Unbound
	George Fetherling (Ed.)	The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs
Jan 18/03	V. S. Naipaul	Beyond Belief
Feb. 12/03	Royall Tyler (trans.)	Japanese No Dramas
Feb. 15/03	Andrew Miller	Oxygen	Jun 13/07
April 1/03	David Mitchell	Number 9 Dream	Aug 17/07
June 28/03	Isaac Adamson	Dreaming Pachinko	Jun 22/07
Oct 20/03	Ann-Marie MacDonald	The Way the Crow Flies
Oct. 24/03	E. M. Forster	Howards End	Aug 06/07
	Anton Chekhov	Ward No. 6 and Other Stories
Oct. 25/03	William Faulkner	Absalom, Absalom!
Nov. 23/03	M. G. Vassanji	The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Feb. 23/04	W. O. Mitchell	Since Daisy Creek	Aug 21/07
May 24/04	Monique Proulx	The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle	Jan 24/07
	Jeffrey Eugenides	Middlesex
July 08/04	Norman Levine	The Ability to Forget
	Norman Levine	By a Frozen River	Jun 30/07
August 21/04	John Bemrose	The Island Walkers
	Louis de Bernieres	Birds Without Wings
Oct. 10/04	Rumi	Mystical Poems of Rumi 2
	Franz Kafka	The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories	Jul 31/07
	J. M. Coetzee	Age of Iron
	Don DeLillo	Libra
Oct. 22/04	John Milton	Paradise Lost

June 13/05	Monica Ali	Brick Lane
July 23/05	Khaled Hosseini	The Kite Runner
Sept 13/05	Cintra Wilson	Colors Insulting to Nature
Sept 14/05	Salvador Plascencia	The People of Paper
	Michael Winter	The Big Why	Feb 07/07
	Virginia Woolf	Selected Works	Jan 14/07
Sept 16/05	Italo Calvino	Difficult Loves
	Italo Calvino	The Baron in the Trees	Mar 23/07
Sept 20/05	Wayson Choy	All That Matters
	Beth Powning	The Hatbox Letters
Sept 27/05	Miriam Toews	Swing Low
Oct 07/05	Sandra Birdsell	Children of the Day
	Alice Munro	Runaway	Mar 15/07
Nov 04/05	Pierre Berton	Prisoners of the North
Dec 29/05	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 2)
	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 4)
	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 5)

Mar 11/06	Latifa	My Forbidden Face	Sep 22/07
Mar 21/06	Stephen Donaldson	The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant	Sep 08/07
June 15/06	Cao Xueqin	The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (vol. 3)
Oct 3/06	Mark Haddon	A Spot of Bother	Jan 30/07

Mar 08/07	Jeffery Deaver	The Bone Collector	May 31/07
	Jeffery Deaver	The Coffin Dancer	Jun 04/07
Mar 12/07	Orhan Pamuk	Snow
	Orhan Pamuk	Istanbul
Mar 19/07	J. R. Moehringer	The Tender Bar
	Rudy Wiebe	Of This Earth	Apr 01/07
	Ishmael Beah	A Long Way Gone	May 27/07
	Leonard Cohen	Book Of Longing	Jun 01/07
Mar 28/07	Cormac McCarthy	The Road	Apr 04/07
	Haruki Murakami	Kafka On The Shore	Jul 24/07
Apr 25/07	Michael Ondaatje	Divisadero	Dec 28/07
	Walter Isaacson	Einstein
May 16/07	Wayne Grady	Where the Silence Rings	Jun 09/07
	Wayne Grady	Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze
	Lee Iacocca	Where Have All the Leaders Gone?	Jun 06/07
May 22/07	Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five	Jun 14/07
Jun 10/07	Jeffery Deaver	The Empty Chair	Jul 02/07
Jun 11/07	Don McKay	Deactivated West 100	Jul 25/07
Jun 14/07	Don McKay	Strike/Slip	Sep 10/07
July 24/07	Anton Chekov	The Undiscovered Chekov: 43 New Stories
	Sei Shonagon	The Pillow Book
	Haruki Murakami	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
July 31/07	Alexander Pushkin	Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
	Alexander Pushkin	The Collected Stories
Aug 07/07	Nikolai Gogol	Dead Souls
	Nikolai Gogol	The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Aug 19/07	Haruki Murakami	South of the Border, West of the Sun
	David Mitchell	Cloud Atlas
	Salman Rushdie	The Satanic Verses
	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children
	Ismail Kadare	The Successor
	Jed Rubenfeld	The Interpretation of Murder
Aug 26/07	Mary Lawson	The Other Side of the Bridge
Sep 15/07	Elliot Perlman	Three Dollars	Sep 27/07
	Richard Flanagan	The Sound of One Hand Clapping	Oct 16/07
	John Banville	The Untouchable	Oct 08/07
Oct 04/07	Les Murray	Selected Poems
	Sheryl McCorry	Diamonds and Dust	Oct 10/07
	Ivan Turgenev	First Love	Oct 08/07
	Omar Khayyam	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	Oct 08/07
Oct 17/07	Edited by All Valleau & Jack Finnbogason	The Nelson Introduction to Literature	Oct 27/07
Nov 02 /07	Bob Dylan	Dylan on Dylan	Nov 09/07
Dec 11/07	Elliot Perlman	Seven Types of Ambiguity	Dec 22/07
Dec 13/07	Ken Follett	The Pillars of the Earth
	Ken Follett	World Without End
	Elizabeth Hay	Late Nights on Air
	Bryce Courtney	Sylvia
	Antony & Cleopatra	Colleen McCullough

Date Start	Author	Date	Title of Novel	Date End
Nov 27/06	Julia Briggs	2005	Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life	Jan 14/07
Nov 30/06	Virginia Woolf	2005	Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room	Jan 02/07
Dec 28/06	Alice Munro	2006	The View From Castle Rock	Jan 01/07
Jan 07/07	Virginia Woolf	2005	Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Orlando	Jan 07/07
Jan 10/07	Virginia Woolf	2005	Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - The Waves	Jan 11/07
Jan 13/07	Virginia Woolf	2005	Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Three Guineas	Jan 13/07
Jan 14/07	Virginia Woolf	2005	Selected Works of Virginia Woolf - Between the Acts	Jan 14/07
Jan 17/07	Jonathan Raban	1999	Passage to Juneau	Jan 21/07
Jan 22/07	Monique Proulx	2003	The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle	Jan 24/07
Jan 25/07	Mark Haddon	2006	A Spot of Bother	Jan 30/07
Jan 31/07	Michael Winter	2004	The Big Why	Feb 07/07
Feb 07/07	Helen McCullough	1988	The Tale of the Heike	Feb 25/07
Feb 26/07	Jeffrey Deaver	2006	The Cold Moon	Mar 03/07
Mar 08/07	Alice Munro	2004	Runaway	Mar 15/07
Mar 16/7	Umberto Eco	2002	Baudolino	Mar 21/07
Mar 22/07	Italo Calvino	1959	The Baron in the Trees	Mar 23/07
Mar 24/07	Rudy Wiebe	2006	Of This Earth	Apr 01/07
Apr 02/07	Cormac McCarthy	2006	The Road	Apr 04/07
Apr 05/07	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1990	The Brothers Karamasov	May 22/07
May 23/07	Ishmael Beah	2007	A Long Way Gone	May 27/07
May 28/07	Jeffery Deaver	1997	The Bone Collector	May 31/07
Jun 01/07	Leonard Cohen	2006	The Book Of Longing	Jun 01/07
Jun 02/07	Jeffery Deaver	1998	The Coffin Dancer	Jun 04/07
June 05/07	Lee Iacocca	2007	Where Have All The Leaders Gone?	Jun 06/07
Jun 06/07	Wayne Johnston	2002	The Navigator of New York	Jun 09/07
Jun 09/07	Wayne Grady	2007	Where the Silence Rings	Jun 09/07
Jun 13/07	Andrew Miller	2001	Oxygen	Jun 13/07
Jun 14/07	Kurt Vonnegut	1969	Slaughterhouse-Five	Jun 14/07
Jun 16/07	Ann Patchett	2001	Bel Canto	Jun 18/07
Jun 19/07	Isaac Adamson	2003	Dreaming Pachinko	Jun 22/07
Jun 23/07	Norman Levine	2000	By a Frozen River	Jun 30/07
Jun 30/07	Jeffery Deaver	2000	The Empty Chair	Jul 02/07
Jul 02/07	Alexander Pushkin	1830	Eugene Onedin	Jul 03/07
Jul 04/07	T. J. Binyon	2002	Pushkin: A Biography	Jul 16/07
Jul 17/07	Haruki Murakami	2005	Kafka on the Shore	Jul 24/07
Jul 25/07	Don McKay	2005	Deactivated West 100	Jul 25/07
Jul 29/07	Franz Kafka	1993	The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories	Jul 31/07
Aug 01/07	E. M. Forster	1910	Howards End	Aug 06/07
Aug 07/07	David Mitchell	2001	Number 9 Dream	Aug 17/07
Aug 18/07	W. O. Mitchell	1984	Since Daisy Creek	Aug 21/07
Aug 22/07	Dave Eggers	2001	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Aug 28/07
Aug 29/07	Stephen Donaldson	1996	The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book One. The Wounded Land	Aug 31/07
Sep 01/07	Stephen Donaldson	1996	The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Two. The One Tree	Sep 05/07
Sep 06/07	Stephen Donaldson	1996	The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Book Three. White Gold Wielder	Sep 08/07
Sep 09/07	Don McKay	2006	Strike/Slip	Sep 10/07
Sep 11/07	Marcel Proust	1992	The Captive. v 5 of In Search of Lost Time	Sep 21/07
Sep 22/07	Latifa	2002	My Forbidden Face	Sep 22/07
Sep 23/07	Elliot Perlman	1998	Three Dollars	Sep 27/07
Sep 28/07	John Banville	1997	The Untouchable	Oct 08/07
Oct 08/07	Omar Khayyam	12 C	The Rubaiyet of Omar Khayyam	Oct 08/07
Oct 08/07	Ivan Turgenev	1860	First Love	Oct 08/07
Oct 09/07	Sheryl McCorry	2007	Diamonds and Dust	Oct 10/07
Oct 11/07	Richard Flanagan	1997	The Sound of One Hand Clapping	Oct 16/07
Oct 17/07	Al Valleau & Jack Finnbogason (Eds.)	2004	The Nelson Introduction to Literature	Oct 27/07
Oct 28/07	Marcel Proust	1992	The Prisoner. v 6 of In Search of Lost Time	Nov 01/07
Nov 02/07	Bob Dylan	2006	Dylan on Dylan	Nov 09/07
Dec 11/07	Elliot Perlman	2003	Seven Types of Ambiguity	Dec 22/07
Dec 24/07	Michael Ondaatje	2007	Divisadero	Dec 28/07
Dec 29/07	J. R. Moehringer	2006	The Tender Bar