Booklist 2007

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Inspired by richlayers list over books read in 2007.
Sometimes by month, sometimes jumbled together.

Fiction:

January, February and March 1-12th.

Christopher Logue: War Music (re-read)
Megan Whalen Turner: The Thief
Catherynne M. Valente : The Orphan’s Tales: In the night garden , Vol. I
Sarah Walters: The Nightwatch
Homer: The Iliad(Robert Fagles translation)
Karl-Ove Knausgård: En Tid for alt. (in English: a Time for Everything. )

March 13-31

April
Cees Nootebaum: In the Dutch Mountains

May-June

Lawrence Durrell: The Alexandria Quartet
Sherman Alexia: Flight

July

Martin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park


Non-Fiction:

January, February and March 1-12th.

Christopher Clark: The Iron Kingdom – The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
Christopher Tyerman: God’s War – a New History of the Crusades
Emma Hartley: Did David Hasselhoff end the Cold War – facts you need to know about Europe.
Neil Oliver: Not Forgotten – War Memorials of the Great War
Joanna Bourke: An Intimate History of Killing
Toby Clark: Art and Propaganda
Moritz Wullen: Die Deutschen sind im Treppenhaus – Der Fries Otto Geyers in der Alten Nationalgalerie
Thomas Doherty: The Projections of War
Jeanine Basinger: the World War II Combat Film
Rod Green: The Real History behind Foyle’s War.
Aleida Assmann: Zeit und Tradition. Kulturelle Strategien der Dauer.
Paul Cartledge: The Spartans
Wolf Lepenies: The Seduction of Culture in German History
Rosamund Mckitterick: Perceptions of the Past in the early Middle Ages.

March 13-31

Michael de Certeau: The Practice of Everyday Life
George S. Williamson: The Longing for Myth in Germany - religion and aesthetic culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche
April
Andreas Huyssen: Present Past: Urban Palimpsest and the Politics of memory
Andreas Huyssen: Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
John Reader: Africa - a biography
Paul Ricoueur: Memory, History, forgetting

May - June

Robin Cormack: Byzantine Art
Crowly Heyer: Communications in History
Studs Terkel: The Good war
John Julius Norwich: Byzantium Vol. 1
Stephen Runciman: The History of the Crusades Vol 1. (reread)
John Adams: The Best War Ever
Jay Winters and Sivan: War and Remembrance in the 20th Century
Hans Khan:The Mind of Germany

July

Lawrence Nees: Early Medieval Art
Duncan Anderson: Glass warriors - the Camera at war
Peter Garlake: Early African Art and Architecture
David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson: Film Art - and introduction

There are some recurring themes here huh? Also the Fiction section is a bit thin, so any suggestions about fiction would be very welcome. And possibly something not in connection with the Second World War. It might be healthy to read about something else as well. ;)
(but if any of you have a suggestion about a WWII book I wouldn't mind hearing about it...)