The bolded entries are the ones I liked best. The choices are slightly different from the ones featured in My Notable Twenty-Five because I read more after the post date or felt warmer (or colder) towards some.
Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Making It Up - Penelope Lively
Firmin: The Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife - Sam Savage
Brother Man - Roger Mais
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
The Sea - John Banville
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice - A.S. Byatt
The Architect of the Roman Empire - Thomas Rice Holmes
The Hills were Joyful Together - Roger Mais
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Memory in Death - J.D. Robb
Dance of the Gods - Nora Roberts
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Shroud - John Banville
Ticknor - Sheila Heti
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie
Eugenie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
Hot Night - Shannon Mckenna
Charlie All Night - Jennifer Crusie
Strange Bedpersons - Jennifer Crusie
Getting Rid of Bradley - Jennifer Crusie
What The Lady Wants - Jennifer Crusie
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
The Immoralist - Andre Gide
Seduction and Betrayal* - Elizabeth Hardwick
King Dork - Frank Portman
The Fox in the Attic - Richard Hughes
The Unknown Masterpiece - Honoré de Balzac
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Endymion Spring - Matthew Skelton (yuck)
We Always Treat Women Too Well - Raymond Queneau
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Scandal in Spring - Lisa Kleypas
All U Can Eat - Emma Holly (Yes, I am chagrined at having read a book with such letter abuse.)
Chess Story - Stefan Zwieg
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood
Come Closer - Sara Gran
The History of Reading - Alberto Manguel
Manservant and Maidservant - Ivy Compton-Burnett
Kingdoms of Elfin - Sylvia Townsend Warner
Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Mapping the Mind - Rita Carter
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
Woman in the Dark - Dashiell Hammett
Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran
Old Goriot - Honoré de Balzac
Other Electricities - Ander Monson
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
Defence Speeches - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Conrad’s Fate - Diana Wynne Jones
Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Atlas - Jorge Luis Borges
Reading Cicero - Catherine Steel
Dreamtigers - Jorge Luis Borges
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Power of Three - Diana Wynne Jones
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Art and Life - John Ruskin
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul - Paul M. Churchland
Possession - A.S. Byatt
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
4 responses so far ↓
Semicolon // January 1, 2007 at 11:57 pm
[...] Imani gives her list here with favorites highlighted, and here she says she’s never read a bad book (this year). [...]
rozmarins // June 4, 2007 at 4:30 am
WOW! 70 books! That`s a lot.
Andrew // June 15, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I work as a bookseller - well, a bookshop manager - and I must say: I’m impressed. I tracked back your blog from a comment left on my book blog and I will be showing your blog to my colleagues. We dream of getting customers like you through the doors to share the fun of books with!
imani // June 15, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Thank you for the very nice words. I admit I am fairly chummy with the book store manager of the independent store in town. We can book talk for ages.
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