Books of 2007

With another year drawing to a close, here's a look back at the reading list that was:

Chris Anderson	The Long Tail
Kate Atkinson	Case Histories
Julian Barnes	Arthur & George
Bill Bryson	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Italo Calvino	If on a winter's night a traveler
Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris	Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Jasper Fforde	The Fourth Bear
Robert H. Frank	The Economic Naturalist
Sara Gruen	Water for Elephants
Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan	Chances Are...(Adventures in Probability)
Garry Kasparov	How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves from the Board to the Boardroom
Erik Larson	Devil in the White City
Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb	The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis
Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson	The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	A Hundred Years of Solitude
Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel	Strategy Bites Back: It is a Lot More, and a Lot Less, Than You Ever Imagined
Haruki Murakami	after the quake
	Dance Dance Dance
	The Elephant Vanishes
	Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
I. J. Parker	Demon Scroll
	Rashomon Gate
	Black Arrow
	Isle of Exiles
Marisha Pessl	Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Philip Pullman	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book I)
	The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book II)
	The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, Book III)
José Rizal	Noli Me Tangere (Translated by Harold Augenbraum)
J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Nassim Nicholas Taleb	The Black Swan (The Impact of the Highly Improbable)

The tally is thirty-one books, just slightly more than my modest annual target of twenty-six. In all, it's a better mix than last year's and betrays my penchant for following specific authors (see Murakami, Parker, Pullman and Fforde).

As for 2008, my reading list is already shaping up to be just as interesting with at least six books on my queue. I'll get around to them soon enough, and as always suggestions are most welcome.