Books of the year
January 1, 2008
With the new year upon us, and a host of year’s best lists all around, I thought I’d add to the cacophony with my own best books of 2007. It’s really a list of the books I’ve read this year that are my favorites, almost none of them were written or published in ‘07.
Do you have any favorites for ‘07? Please let me know, I’m always looking for something new and interesting.
To another year of reading ahead of us, Happy New Year!
Fiction
Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
Jorge Luis Borges - A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges - Dreamtigers
Italo Calvino - The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities
Miguel De Cervantes - Don Quixote, translated by Edith Grossman
J.M. Coetzee - Waiting For The Barbarians
Cormac McCarthy - No County For Old Men
Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk - Snow
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Salman Rusdie - Shalimar The Clown
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
Non-Fiction
Reza Aslan - No god but God - The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Jean Baudrillard - The Consumer Society
John Dewey - Art as Experience
Thomas L. Friedman - The World is Flat
Craig Harbison - The Mirror of the Artist, Northern Renaissance Art in its Historical Context
Photography and Art Books
Mitch Epstein - Recreation
Paul Graham - American Night
Paul Graham - Empty Heaven
Andreas Gursky - (from the Istanbul Museum of Art)
Marco Livingstone - Pop Art, A Continuing History
Tod Papageorge - Passing Through Eden
James Meyer, editor - Minimalism, Themes and Movements
Martin Parr - Small World
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger - The Photobook: A History volume I and II
Taryn Simon - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
