Okay, here are my favorites from 2007. For the purposes of this list, my rule is that I have to have read the book for the first time this year, regardless of whether the book was actually new this year. So, something like War and Peace would count because I’ve never read it, but of course, it doesn’t qualify because I still actually haven’t. Clear as mud? Great. Let’s get on with it:

And, oh yes, books appear in the order of their appearance in my reading log–they’re not alphabetical or in sequence of most-to-least favorite, or anything like that. It’s just the order they showed up in my life.

Fiction:

• DEATH IN THE GARDEN by Elizabeth Ironside (274 p.)
• I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak (357 p.)
• PASSAGE by Connie Willis (780 p.)
• HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson (213 p.)
• LOST AND FOUND by Jacqueline Sheehan (278 p.)
• POCKETFUL OF NAMES by Joe Coomer (413 p.)
• LOVE WALKED IN by Marisa de los Santos (307 p.)
• AUSTENLAND by Shannon Hale (194 p.) (fluffy, but cute)
• HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS by JK Rowling (759 p.)
• FIRST AMONG SEQUELS by Jasper Fforde (362 p.)
• WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin (182 p.)
• DRAGONHAVEN by Robin McKinley (342 p.)
• THE WHISTLING SEASON by Ivan Doig (345 p.)
• MIRABILE by Janet Kagan (278 p.)
• GENERAL WINSTON’S DAUGHTER by Sharon Shinn (342 p.)
• RUN by Ann Patchett (295 p.)

Non-Fiction:

• READING LIKE A WRITER by Francine Prose (268 p.)
• TEAM OF RIVALS by Doris Kearns Goodwin. (754 p.)
• PERFECT RED by Amy Butler Greenfield (261 p.)
• EPITAPH FOR A PEACH by David Mas Masumoto (233 p.)
• BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell (276 p.)
• ARAN SWEATER DESIGN by Janet Szabo (171 p.)
• EINSTEIN by Walter Isaacson (551 p.)
• STILL LIFE WITH CHICKENS by Catherine Goldhammer (176 p.)
• DINNER WITH DAD by Cameron Stracker (242 p.)
• JUDGEMENT OF PARIS by George Taber (304 p.)
• TALK TO THE HAND by Lynne Truss (202 p.)

I read 288 books in 2007. The most in one month was 31, in May, the least was June, with only 18. Of the 288 books, 119 of them were new (to me), the other 169 were re-reads. The authors read the most? Mercedes Lackey (18 books); Anne McCaffrey (13 books); Sharon Shinn (12 books); David Eddings (12 books);  Diana Wynne Jones (12 books); Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (11 books). (Um, you can certainly tell which genre is my “comfort reading,” huh?)

And, a recap of each month’s lists for you….

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

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