System 13

Following in the footsteps of Heliologue, this will be my post where I keep an updated list of all of the books I’m finished reading in 2007. There will be individual posts for each book I read as well; once these posts are up, a link will be added to them from this post.

1. Song of Susannah – Stephen King continues his Dark Tower series with this one. It was alright, but I certainly preferred some of the other ones more, particularly Wizard and Glass. It’s main selling point with me was that it was the bridge between book 5 and the last book of the series, The Dark Tower.
2. The Fall of Berlin 1945 – Antony Beevor writes about the tragedy, the sadness, the absurdity of war. This is almost like a follow-up book to Stalingrad, which I read last year. It was a really interesting reading, but also more than a bit sad. I’m always shocked at how truly insane Hitler had become by the end. It was also a bit of a shock to read how brutally the Red Army treated German civilians, particularly women. I’ll have to check out Stalingrad again and see if the German army behaved this way while heading towards Stalingrad.
3. One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
4. The Dark Tower (Book 7)
5. Insomnia
6. Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Buddhism for the Western World
7. The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
8. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded Edition]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
9. Working with Anger by Thubten Chodron
10. Body for Life by Bill Phillips
11. Zen Buddhism (The Origins of Wisdom) by O.B. Duane and Alex Gooch
12. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
13. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
14. Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
15. Sharpe’s Tiger by Bernard Cornwell
16. Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
17. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
18. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
19. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
20. The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
21. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (original title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
22. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
23. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain by David Shenk
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
25. The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
26. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
27. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
28. The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal (Translator)
29. Myne Owne Ground: Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes
30. The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell
31. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
32. The Stand by Stephen King
33. A Short History of World War 2 by James Stokesbury
34. A History of India: Volume 1 by Romila Thapar
35. Politics and Culture in the Developing World – The Impact of Globalization by Richard J. Payne and Jamal R. Nassar
36. Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz