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  • Jul 23 2007

    Books Read in ‘07

    Published by 3M

    Here are the books read in 2007:

    January
    1. Angle of Repose**** by Wallace Stegner
    2. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency****1/2 by Alexander McCall Smith
    3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan***** by Lisa See (Top 5)
    4. Atonement***1/2 by Ian McEwan
    5. Peace Like a River****1/2 by Leif Enger
    6. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane****1/2 by Kate DiCamillo
    February
    7. The Birds**1/2 by Arisophanes
    8. The Black Pearl****1/2 by Scott O’Dell
    9. Silas Marner****1/2 by George Eliot (Top 20)
    10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde***** by Robert Louis Stevenson (Top 5)
    11. To Kill a Mockingbird***** by Harper Lee (Top 5)
    12. Walking Across Egypt **** by Clyde Edgerton
    13. The Woman in White****1/2 by Wilkie Collins
    14. Heart of Darkness***** by Joseph Conrad (Top 5)
    March
    15. The Book Thief ***** by Markus Zusak (Top 5)
    16. The Echo Maker**** by Richard Powers
    17. The Road ****1/2 by Cormac McCarthy (Top 10)
    18. The Myth of Me and You***1/2 by Leah Stewart
    19. Everyman* by Philip Roth (#1 Worst of 2007)
    20. Fahrenheit 451****1/2 by Ray Bradbury (Top 10)
    21. Inkheart**** by Cornelia Funke
    22. The Giver****1/2 by Lois Lowry (Top 10) (#1 Children’s)
    April
    23. Grendel** by John Gardner (#2 Worst of 2007)
    24. March ***1/2 by Geraldine Brooks
    25. The Princess and the Goblin****1/2 by George MacDonald
    26. The Inheritance of Loss***1/2 by Kiran Desai
    27. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter****1/2 by Kim Edwards
    28. The Translator**** by Leila Aboulela
    May
    29. Eat, Pray, Love**** by Elizabeth Gilbert
    30. The Handmaid’s Tale ****1/2 by Margaret Atwood (Top 10)
    31. The Stone Diaries****1/2 by Carol Shields (Top 20)
    32. Amos Fortune, Free Man**** by Elizabeth Yates
    33. Broken for You**** by Stephanie Kallos
    34. The Color Purple**** by Alice Walker
    35. My Sister’s Keeper**** by Jodi Picoult
    36. Phantastes**** by George MacDonald
    June
    37. The Eyre Affair**** by Jasper Fforde
    38. A Severe Mercy**** by Sheldon Vanauken
    39. A Wrinkle in Time**** by Madeleine L’Engle
    40. Number the Stars**** by Lois Lowry
    41. Wide Sargasso Sea **** by Jean Rhys
    42. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell****1/2 by Susanna Clarke
    43. New Testament***** (Best of 2007)
    44. Coraline****1/2 by Neil Gaiman (Top 20) (#2 Children’s)
    45. The Bone People**** by Keri Hulme
    46. Wild Swans****1/2 by Jung Chang (#1 Non-Fiction) (Top 20)
    July
    47. The Sea** by John Banville (#2 Worst of 2007)
    48. The Door in the Wall**** by Marguerite de Angeli
    49. Gathering Blue****1/2 by Lois Lowry
    50. Messenger**** by Lois Lowry
    51. The White Stag**** by Kate Seredy
    52. Stardust**** by Neil Gaiman
    53. The Higher Power of Lucky**** by Susan Patron
    54. The Blind Assassin ***1/2 by Margaret Atwood
    55. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books***1/2 by Peder Zane
    56. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
    August
    57. The Secret Life of Bees****1/2 by Sue Monk Kidd (Top 20)
    58. Stargirl**** by Jerry Spinelli
    59. A Death in the Family****1/2 by James Agee
    60. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Top 10)
    61. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery
    62. The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
    63. O Pioneers!**** by Willa Cather
    64. The Known World**** by Edward P. Jones
    September
    65. The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
    66. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
    67. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
    68. The Bookseller of Kabul **** by Asne Seierstad (#2 Non-Fiction)
    69. The Travels of Marco Polo
    October
    70. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
    71. Wednesday Letters***1/2 by Jason F. Wright
    72. Half of a Yellow Sun****1/2 by Adichie (Top 20)
    73. Gossamer****1/2 by Lois Lowry
    74. Tears of the Giraffe**** by Alexander McCall Smith
    75. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
    76. The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
    77. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho (Top 20)
    78. Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Vol. 1
    November
    79. Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais
    80. Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
    81. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
    82. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Top 20)
    83. Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
    84. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
    85. The Xanadu Adventure by Lloyd Alexander
    86. Zia by Scott O’Dell
    87. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
    88. The Hours by Michael Cunningham
    December
    89. Mr. Ives’ Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
    90. This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
    91. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
    92. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
    93. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
    94. Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
    95. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
    96. Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (Top 20)
    97. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    98. The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens
    99. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Top 20)
    100. Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
    101. Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam

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    6 Responses to “Books Read in ‘07”

    1. Sharon Says:
      August 22nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm

      I think it looks great! Good job setting it up and looks like you really put a lot of effort into it. You sure are organized!

    2. Carrie K. Says:
      December 29th, 2007 at 11:55 am

      We had some similar reads this year - The Road was one of my favorites of the year as well.

    3. Framed Says:
      December 29th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

      Wonderful list. I’ve read a number of these and have a number more on my TBR list. The Book Thief was definitely my favorite book read this year.

    4. 3M Says:
      January 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am

      Carrie and Framed–The Book Thief and The Road were both just sooooo good!

    5. Kristen Says:
      May 4th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

      Here is my review for Peace Like a River: http://bookclubclassics.com/Blog/2008/02/09/50-states-50-books-north-dakota/

      Thank you and feel free to add links for Peace, Broken For You and Eat, Pray, Love to my site, too! (My review of the latter two is too informal to add to your site, I think…)

    6. Teddyrose Says:
      May 4th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

      Here’s the link for my reviews of books you also reviewed, I will also link your reviews to mine on my blog:

      To Kill a Mockingbird:
      http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/2008/02/to-kill-mockingbird-by-harper-lee.html

      Middlesex:
      http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/2007/12/middlesex-by-jeffrey-eugenides.html

      I actually wrote reviews for quite a few of the books you listed here, but that was before I started blogging. The are all on Amazon.ca.

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