Books/ Magazines read in 2007
My 2007 Reading List
- A quantum murder/ Peter F. Hamilton
- ABR (Australian Book Review)/ Feb 2007
- Across the nightingale floor/ Lian Hern
- Acoustic guitar/ Mar 2006
- Adbusters (journal of the mental environment)/ #72 (Jun - Jul 2007)
- Analog science fiction and fact/Oct 2007
- Analog science fiction and fact/ Dec 2005
- Analog science fiction and fact/ Jan-Feb 2006
- Analog science fiction and fact/ Mar 2006
- Analog science fiction and fact/ Nov 2005
- Asimov’s science fiction/ Aug 2007
- Asimov’s Science Fiction/ Feb 2007
- Asimov’s science fiction/ Jan 2007
- Astro City: Confessions/ Kurt Busiek [Re-read this, actually]
- Batgirl: A knight alone
- Batman: Arkham asylum
- Batman: Dark knight dynasty
- Batman: Fortunate son
- Batman: Gotham by gaslight/ Brian Augustyn & Mike Mignola
- Batman: Hush (vol 2)/ Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee
- Batman: Hush returns
- Batman: Officer down (New Gotham 2)
- Batman: Terror/ Doug Moench & Paul Gulacy
- Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot/ Frank Miller & Geof Darrow
- Blogs: Understanding the Information reformation and how it’s changing your world/ Hugh Hewitt
- Bookmarks: For everyone who hasn’t read everything/ May - June 2006
- Brilliance of the moon/ Lian Hern
- Brownsville/ Neil Kleid & Jake Allen
- Captain America: Red menace
- Computer music/ April 2006
- Death by spaghetti/ The Big Issue
- Delta force: Operation Michael’s Sword/ John Harriman
- Delta force: Prelude to war/ John Harriman
- Diary of a duty manager: A collection of short stories/ Cyril Peter
- Doing a little good: A book of the Riding for the Disabled Association of Singapore
- Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder/ David Weinberger
- Entrepreneur/ Dec 2006
- Fantastic Four: First family/ Joe Casey & Chris Weston
- For us, the living: A comedy of customs/ Robert A. Heinlein
- Frommer’s Vienna & the Danube valley (5th ed.)
- Ghost force/ Patrick Robinson
- Grass for his pillow/ Lian Hearn
- Greetings, carbon-based bipeds!/ Arthur C. Clarke
- Guerrilla creativity: Make your message irresistible with the power of memes/ Jay Conrad Levinson
- Hellboy: Odder jobs/ Frank Darabont, Charles de Lint, Graham Joyce, Mike Mignola
- Hellstrom’s Hive/ Frank Herbert
- Hocus pocus/ Kurt Vonnegut
- Home recording power: Set up your own recording studio for personal and professional use/ Ben Milstead
- How to draw manga vol. 3: Compiling application and practice/ Society for the study of Manga techniques
- How to draw manga: vol 4
- Jonah Hex: Face full of violence/ Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti & Luke Ross
- Judge Dredd: Featuring Judge Death
- Loving a schizophrenic: A true story of love, loyalty and courage/ Raymond Anthony Fernando
- MacAddict/ Aug 2005
- MacAddict/ July 2005
- Macworld/ Oct 2005
- Military gadgets: How advanced technology is transforming today’s battlefield… And tomorrow’s/ Nicholas D. Evans
- Minivanity: An ADAM collection/ Brian Basset
- Misspent youth/ Peter F. Hamilton
- Modesty Blaise: Cry Wolf/ Peter O’Donnell & Enric Badia Romero
- My Michael/ Amoz Oz
- Mythology: The DC comics art of Alex Ross/ Chip Kidd & Geoff Spear
- Norwegian wood/ Haruki Murakami
- Orphanage/ Robert Buettner
- Playing the Guitar (Everything You Need to Know About…)/ Jack Wilkins & Peter Rubie
- Poetry/ May 2007
- Rose/ Jeff Smith & Charles Vess
- Rough guide to Vienna
- Secrets of podcasting: Audio blogging for the masses/ Bart G. farkas
- Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade/ Kurt Vonnegut
- Snow Crash/ Neal Stephenson
- Spot the Frog: A Cartoon Collection/ Mark Heath
- Squadron Supreme: The pre-war years/ J. Michael Straczynski & Gary Frank
- Starman Jones/ Robert A. Heinlein
- Starship troopers/ Robert A. Heinlein
- Stonehaven: Milk cartons & dog biscuits/ Kevin Tinsley & Phil Singer
- Superman, Aliens 2: God war
- Tales of the dying earth/ Jack Vance
- Taxi talk: Tall tales, bright lights and stories of hope and yearning/ Zheng Shuying
- The Authority vol 1: Relentless/ Warren Ellis
- The begotten/ Lisa T. Bergren
- The best of the best: 20 years of the year’s best science fiction/ edited by Gardner Dozois
- The complete idiot’s guide to creative writing/ Laurie E. Rozakis
- The dark knight returns/ Frank Miller, Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley
- The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy/ John Carnell & Steve Leialoha
- The house that Jack built/ Graham Masterton
- The legend of Drizzt book III: Sojourn/ R. A. salvatore
- The moon is a harsh mistress/ Robert A. Heinlein
- The protector’s war/ S. M. Stirling
- The ratvolution will not be televised (Pearls before swine collection)/ Stephan Pastis
- The story of strauss in words and music
- The three tensions: Winning the struggle to perform without compromises/ Dominic Dodd and Ken Favaro
- The tipping point: How little things can make a big difference/ Malcolm Gladwell
- Thriving on vague objectives/ Scott Adams
- Timeout: Vienna (3rd ed)
- Tom Strong: Book Three
- Tom Strong: Book Two
- Tomorrow stories: Book Two/ Alan Moore
- Undaunted courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American west/ Stephen E. Ambrose
- V for vendetta/ Alan Moore & David Lloyd
- Virtuoso strauss transcription. Piers lane. Piano
- Waggin’ tales: A Red and Rover cartoon collection/ Brian Basset
- What Matters in Learning?/ Tan Ai Girl
- Welcome to the monkey house: A collection of short works/ Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY:
Total items read
Fiction Vs Non-fiction
- 2007 = 69% Fiction Vs. 31% Non-fiction
- 2006 = 88% Fiction Vs. 12% Non-fiction
- 2005 = 79% Fiction Vs. 21% Non-fiction
- 2004 = 56% Fiction Vs. 44% Non-fiction
Subject/ Genre composition (top 3 in terms of %)
- 2007 = Art (graphic novels) 41%, Science Fiction 27%, Contemporary Fiction 4%
- 2006 = Fantasy 31%, Philosophy & Psychology/ Self-improvement 7%, IT & Computer 6% (others include Science Fiction 6%, Management 4%, Art 3%)
- 2005 = Fantasy 23%, Science Fiction 23%, Contemporary Fiction 15%, (other subjects/ genres include Military 4%, Art 4%, and Science 4%)
- 2004 = Science Fiction 26%, Contemporary Fiction 14%, Military 13% (others include Management 12%, Fantasy 9%, Library Science 5%)
Items from Singapore Collection
- 2007 = 4 (4% of items read)
- 2006 = 3 (4% of items read)
- 2005 = 9 (10% of total read)
- 2004 = 0
Formats
- 2007 = Books 46%, Magazines 33%, Graphic Novels 17%, CDs 4%
- 2006 = Books 44%, Magazines 18%, Graphic Novels 38%
- 2005 = Books 48%, Magazines 12%, Graphic Novels 40%
- 2004 = Books 73%, Magazines 22%, Graphic Novels 5%
