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
  

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