Books Read in ’07

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