January 3, 2008

  • Best Book of 2007

    I have to share the list of the Best Books of 2007 according to Bookmarks Magazine.  In the Literary category the following were some of the Favorites of 2007

    The Aeneid - Virgil

    After Dark - Haruki Murakami

    Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

    American Youth - Phil LaMache

    Black Girl/White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates

    I'll Steal You Away - Nicolo Ammaniti

    In The Country of Men - Hisham Matar

    Lost City Radio - Daniel Alarcon

    Mistress of the Art of Death - Ariana Franklin

    My Holocaust - Tova Reich

    Nada - Carmen Laforet

    Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

    Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski

    Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson

    The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall

    Then We Came to The End - Joshua Ferris

    A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

    What Is The Want - The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng - Dave Eggers

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    Only three of these titles are on my To Be Read list.  I have already read one of them, A Thousand Splendid Suns.  Since I am listing books here, I might as well share the titles that interested me out of the New Book Guide.  These might not be at our library yet, but generally they are on order already.  I also listed behind the book how many stars Bookmarks Magazine gave it.

    Away  - Amy Bloom ****1/2

    First Among Sequels - A Thursday Next Novel - Jasper Fforde ****

    The Rest of Her LIfe - Laura Moriatry ****

    Run - Ann Patchett ****

    The September of Shiraz - Dalia Sofer - ****

    Forgive Me - Amanda Eyre Ward ****

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    I turned on my heating blanket about 15 minutes ago so I am sure my bed is warm and toasty for me by now.  Time for me to snuggle into bed and read for a bit.  Hope you all have a great night.  Let me know if you have read any of the above books. I would love to hear your review of the book! 

Comments (1)

  • i haven;t read any of those, though i'd probably like to read them all - and the only one i've seen down here is a 1000 splendid suns - if i could shose any, i'd begin with "The Rest of Her LIfe - Laura Moriatry" - because that's such an interesting surname - (if you can;t judge books by their covers you have to go by the words themselves )

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