books read 2007

* = loved it

~ = maybe loved it, but am hesitant to recommend for one reason or another – but you still might love it

^ = hated it

[nothing] = indifferent

  1. Sliver of Truth, by Lisa Unger
  2. *Georgia Under Water, by Heather Sellers
  3. *The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
  4. *The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
  5. *Love Walked In, by Marisa de los Santos
  6. *The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
  7. *The Ruins of California, by Martha Sherrill
  8. *Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, by Ayelet Waldman
  9. The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates
  10. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood, by Ann Brashares
  11. *Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer
  12. *The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
  13. *Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
  14. *Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
  15. The Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
  16. *A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
  17. *Gentlemen and Players, by Joanne Harris
  18. The People’s Act of Love, by James Meek
  19. The Tenth Circle, by Jodi Picoult
  20. Eye Contact, by Cammie McGovern
  21. *Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, by David Sedaris
  22. *The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
  23. *Hey Nostradamus!, by Douglas Coupland
  24. The Ivy Chronicles, by Karen Quinn
  25. *The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
  26. *In the Company of the Courtesan, by Sarah Dunant
  27. *Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
  28. The Cunning Man, by Robertson Davies
  29. *A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
  30. *Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  31. *The Good Life, by Jay McInerney
  32. Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons, by Lorna Landvik
  33. *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling
  34. *Love Is A Mix Tape, by Rob Sheffield
  35. *How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, by Mameve Medwed
  36. *Dear Catastrophe Waitress, by Brendan Halpin
  37. The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant
  38. *The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar
  39. Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  40. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
  41. *Tolstoy Lied, by Rachel Kadish
  42. *The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
  43. *The Girls, by Lori Lansens
  44. ~Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, by Janisse Ray
  45. Keeping Faith, by Jodi Picoult
  46. Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
  47. The Poe Shadow, by Matthew Pearl
  48. *Atonement, by Ian McEwan
  49. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
  50. Out, by Natsuo Kirino
  51. *Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
  52. *The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
  53. ~Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
  54. ~Terrorist, by John Updike
  55. *Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  56. ~The Keep, by Jennifer Egan
  57. *Eating the Cheshire Cat, by Helen Ellis (re-read)
  58. ~The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai, by John Tayman
  59. *Further Tales of the City, by Armistead Maupin
  60. ~Her Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of my Daughter, Courtney Love, by Linda Carroll

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