Books I Read in 2007
I feel kind of lazy and bad about it, but 4 of the top 5 books I read this year were ones I've read previously. They're noted with an asterisk. I did read a lot of good novels this year, though. Here's the list:
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer*
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald*
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon*
- A Widow for One Year, John Irving
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling*
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
- What is the What, Dave Eggers
- Wickett’s Remedy, Myla Goldberg
- The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
- Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- Naked Brunch, Sparkle Hayter
- The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud
- The World According to Garp, John Irving
- The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- The Abstinence Teacher, Tom Perrotta
- Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, Melanie Rehak
- One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, Rebecca Mead
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
- What’s a Girl Gotta Do, Sparkle Hayter
- The Chelsea Girl Murders, Sparkle Hayter
- The Last Manly Man, Sparkle Hayter
- Nice Girls Finish Last, Sparkle Hayter
- Revenge of the Cootie Girls, Sparkle Hayter
- Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
- The Keep, Jennifer Egan
- You Are Not a Stranger Here, Adam Haslett
- Saturday, Ian McEwan
- Half-Life of a Zealot, Swanee Hunt
- A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
- A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby
- About Alice, Calvin Trillin
- Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper (audio)
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- The Witness for the Prosecution and other stories, Agatha Christie
- What We Keep, Elizabeth Berg
- On What Grounds, Cleo Coyle