To brag, here’s the complete list of books I read in the 2007 goal year:
- Home Improvement:52 Weekend Projects by Dan Ramsay
- Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen
- Dr. Kookie, You’re Right by Mike Royko
- Grifters & Swindlers Cynthia Manson (ed)
- Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows by Rod McKuen
- Kiss by Ed McBain
- Robert Frost by Lawrance Thompson
- Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman
- Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
- Mortal Prey by John Sandford
- High Profile by Robert B. Parker
- Fields of Wonder by Rod McKuen
- The Mensa Genius Quiz Book by Marvin Grosswirth, Dr. Abbie Salny, and the members of Mensa
- Too Far by Mike Lupica
- Great Tales of Mystery & Suspense Compiled by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, & Martin H. Greenberg
- Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen
- Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection by Reader’s Digest
- Come to Me in Silence by Rod McKuen
- Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen
- Ringworld’s Children by Larry Niven
- Ernest Hemingway by Philip Young
- Winter Prey by John Sandford
- Broken Prey by John Sandford
- Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
- The Prize Winner’s Handbook by Jeffrey Feinmann
- The Case of the Cautious Coquette by Erle Stanley Gardner
- The King’s Henchman by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Hidden Prey by John Sandford
- Fat Ollie’s Book by Ed McBain
- Santorini by Alistair MacLean
- Terminator Dreams by Aason Allston
- Night Prey by John Sandford
- The Instant Enemy by Ross MacDonald
- Nocturne by Ed McBain
- The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
- Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
- Oath of Fealty by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
- Another Part of the City by Ed McBain
- The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton
- SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld
- Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
- Nick at Nite’s Classic TV Companion edited by Tom Hill
- Tuesday Night Football by Alex Karras and Douglas Graham
- Chapter Two by Neil Simon
- Certain Prey by John Sandford
- Outlaw of Gor by John Norman
- Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
- The Watchman by Robert Crais
- The Use and Abuse of Books by Leon Battista Alberti
- From The Corner Of His Eye by Dean Koontz
- Dirty Linen by Tom Stoppard
- Harvest Poems 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg
- Suspension Bridge by Rod McKuen
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Spare Change by Robert B. Parker
- Lake Superior Journal Jim Marshall’s View from the Bridge by Jim Marshall
- Candyland by Evan Hunter/Ed McBain
- Armageddon 2419 AD by Philip Francis Nowlan
- Sonnets of Eve by Flora May Johnson Pearce
- Kill City: The Enforcer #3 by Andrew Sugar
- Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
- All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat by Suzy Becker
- 101 Uses for a Dead Cat by Simon Bond
- Sleeping Beauty by Ross MacDonald
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Tangled Vines Lyn Lifshin (ed)
- Sweet and Sour by Andrew A. Rooney
- He Was a Midwestern Boy on His Own by Bob Greene
- Poems of Flowers Gail Harvey (Ed)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
- The Parisian Affair by Nick Carter
- Ghosts by Ed McBain
- Puppet on a Chain by Alistair MacLean
- Deadly Welcome by John D. MacDonald
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- All Summer Long by Bob Greene
- Poems of Friendship Gail Harvey (Ed)
- Be Happy! April Danner (selected by)
- The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Dear Americans: Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan Ralph E. Weber & Ralph A. Weber (ed)
- Detroit by Dale Fisher
- Versus by Ogden Nash
- Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
- My Poems from the Heart by Pam Puleo
- Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
- Panic in Philly by Don Pendleton
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- Seawitch by Alistair MacLean
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
- How to Research The History of Your Webster Groves Home by Ann Morris
- Webster Park 1892-1992 by Wilda H. Swift and Cynthia S. Easterling
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Eight Black Horses by Ed McBain
- State’s Evidence by Stephen Greenleaf
- North Webster: A Photograpic History of a Black Community by Ann Morris and Henrietta Ambrose
- Case of the Fiery Fingers by Erle Stanley Gardner
- Raiders of Gor by John Norman
- Treasures of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by
- Lori by Robert Bloch
- Unfair and Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E. Panky by Patrick M. Carlisle
- Vienna Days by Kim du Toit
- Hoaxes! by Gordon Stein and Marie J. MacNee
- Like I Was Sayin’ by Mike Royko
- Farnham’s Freehold by Robert Heinlein
- Webster Groves by Clarissa Start
- Now and Then by Robert B. Parker
- The Black Hole by Alan Dean Foster
- One of Us is Wrong by Samuel Holt
- My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane
- In Retrospect I by Kathy Condon (ed.)
- Tales from the Coral Court by Shellee Graham
- New York at Night by Bill Harris
- The Handyman by Penelope Mortimer
- Downtown by Ed McBain
- Momisms by Cathy Hamilton
- The Enforcer by Andrew Sugar
- The Book of Lists The 90s Edition by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace
- Spill the Jackpot by A.A. Fair
- It’s Pat: My Life Exposed by Julia Sweeney and Christine Zander
- Dave Barry’s Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides by Dave Barry
- Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris
- Mind Prey by John Sandford
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Gene Roddenberry
- The Best Cartoons from the Saturday Evening Post
You can find the reviews using that little search box at the top. I am far too lazy to do 125 Google searches to make it easy on you.
Overall, quite the eclectic mix. A lot of John Sandford and Ed McBain, some John Norman, and a mix of genre fiction, literary classics, poetry, and some non-fiction thrown in.
Bow before my reading prowess and my ability to sit in a recliner for whole evenings instead of doing something productive with my life.
