2007 Booklist

1. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester


2. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (unfinished)


3. English for Use in "The Way of Tea"


4. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje


5. Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth


6. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (re-read )


7. Mightier Than the Sword by Tom Holt (Book 1: "Who's Afraid of Beowulf?")


8. Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson


9. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham


10. Vintage Murakami by Haruki Murakami


11. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


12. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden


13. Japan: Its History and Culture by W. Scott Morton and J. Kenneth Olenik


14. Mightier Than the Sword by Tom Holt (Book 2: "My Hero")


15. The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer


16. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins


17. Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada by Will Ferguson


18. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella


19. Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje


20. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson


21. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto


22. Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester


23. The Burma Road by Donovan Webster


24. Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories edited by Roald Dahl


25. JPod by Douglas Coupland


26. Gods of Peace, Gods of War by Russell Bourne


27. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown


28. Obasan by Joy Kogawa


29. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


30. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson


31. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks


32. Hard-to-Answer Questions About Japan by Uchiike Hisataka and Michael Brase


33. Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong


34. Who Is Frances Rain? by Margaret Buffie