Books I Read in 2007

[thetofupirate]

Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot
Forever in Blue - Anne Brashares
Flat-Out Rock: 10 Great Bands of the '60s - Mike Tanner
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan

Cupcake - Rachel Cohn
Rock and Roll Toronto: From Alanis to Zeppelin - John Goddard & Richard Crouse
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Towelhead - Alicia Erian

Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About Television - Tara Ariano & Sarah Bunting
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan

The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
Johnny Kellock Died Today - Hadley Dyer
Whitethorn - Bryce Courtenay
The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar

Pants on Fire - Meg Cabot
This Lullabye - Sarah Dessen
Princess on the Brink - Meg Cabot
Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde

The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
The Day I Turned Uncool: Confessions of a Reluctant Grown-Up - Dan Zevin

The Line Painter - Claire Cameron
Midnight for Charlie Bone - Jenny Nimmo
Shopaholic & Baby - Sophie Kinsella
The Time Twister - Jenny Nimmo
The Blue Boa - Jenny Nimmo
Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The Castle of Mirrors - Jenny Nimmo
Charlie Bone & the Hidden King - Jenny Nimmo

Teen Idol - Meg Cabot
Pants on Fire - Meg Cabot
Mosh Pit - Kristyn Dunnion

Queen of Babble - Meg Cabot
Size 12 is Not Fat - Meg Cabot
Size 14 is Not Fat Either - Meg Cabot
Full Frontal Feminism: A young woman's guide to why feminism matters - Jessica Valenti
The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot
Boy Meets Girl - Meg Cabot
Every Boy's Got One - Meg Cabot
The Truth About Forever - Sarah Dessen
On a Cold Road - Dave Bidini
This Lullabye - Sarah Dessen
Keeping the Moon - Sarah Dessen
All-American Girl - Meg Cabot
Ready or Not - Meg Cabot

Good in Bed - Jennifer Weiner
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
PopCo - Scarlett Thomas
Just Friends - Robyn Sisman

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
JPod - Douglas Coupland
A Year of Trading Spaces - Paige Davis

Big Boned - Meg Cabot
Two Steps Forward - Rachel Cohn
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Feeling Sorry for Celia - Jaclyn Moriarty
The Year of Secret Assignments - Jaclyn Moriarty
Tempting Faith DiNapoli - Lisa Gabriele
Ten Thousand Roses: The making of a feminist revolution - Judy Rebick
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman

As you can tell, my guilty pleasures are Young Adult books, and Meg Cabot books. Heh.


Totals
Fiction - 27
Non-Fiction - 8
Young Adult - 29
Overall Total = 64

Canadian Authors - 13 and a half (a book with two authors where one is Canadian)
Female Authors - 46
(This time I am not including YA in fiction/non-fiction counts)

Favourites
Fiction:
The Good Fairies of New York - Martin Millar
Punk rock fairies? Hell yeah! Very entertaining.
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
An interesting look at the relationship between a teenager and her co-worker, who turns out to have gone to highschool with her mother.
The Line Painter - Claire Cameron
And I'm not just listing it because I won a copy. It really was interesting. A woman's partner dies, and she heads on a road trip up north, where her car breaks down. Creepiness and weirdness ensues.
The Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, 1-3 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Fun story, and it's neat recognizing places in the story, since they take place in Toronto. I really need to get #4.

Non-Fiction:
Television Without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About Television - Tara Ariano & Sarah Bunting
I love trivia, especially pop culture trivia, and this book offers way more than I'd ever need to know about television
On a Cold Road - Dave Bidini
A re-read, but I love it. Recounts touring adventures of Canadian bands.

Young Adult:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Leviathan
So good. She wrote Norah's POV, he wrote Nick's. I really enjoyed it (which is why I read it more than once).
Mosh Pit - Kristyn Dunnion
I love YA books about punk stuff, apparently. Plus, it's Canadian!

Apparently I read fewer books this year than last year (I read 78 in 2006). I hope to read more this year. And I hope to read more Fiction than YA next year (even if YA is totally one of my guilty pleasures).