Book List 2007
See Which Books are Recommended at My Amazon Store (Currently Reading)
January
The Color of Light -- Karen White
Double Homicide -- Jonathan and Faye Kellerman
Hannibal Rising -- Thomas Harris
A Thin Dark Line -- Tami Hoag
Forty Words for Sorrow -- Giles Blunt
Sunlight and Shadow -- Sue Boggio and Mare Pearl
How to Kill a Rock Star -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
The Watermelon King -- Daniel Wallace
Maybe a Miracle -- Brian Strause
The Town That Forgot to Breathe -- Kenneth J. Harvey
The River King -- Alice Hoffman
Radio Activity -- Bill Fitzhugh
Death's Acre -- Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson*
Me and Emma -- Elizabeth Flock
The Wishbones -- Tom Perotta
15
February
Gentlemen and Players -- Joanne Harris
Love Walked In -- Marisa De Los Santos
Salem Falls -- Jodi Picoult
The Keeper -- Sarah Langan
Flamethrower -- Maggie Estep
Home to Big Stone Gap -- Adriana Trigiani
The Suspect -- John Lescroart
The King of Lies -- John Hart
Everyone Worth Knowing -- Lauren Weisberger
On Beauty -- Zadie Smith
Deep Storm -- Lincoln Child
26
March
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain*
Blue Blood -- Edward Conlon*
Born on a Blue Day -- Daniel Tammet*
Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities -- Alexandra Robbins*
Past Perfect -- Susan Isaacs
Memory -- Bennett Davlin
The Big Over Easy -- Jasper Fforde
Where or When -- Anita Shreve
Intuition -- Allegra Goodman
The Templar Legacy -- Steve Berry
Shopgirl -- Steve Martin
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
Heart Shaped Box -- Joe Hill
What the Dead Know -- Laura Lippman
The Year of Magical Thinking -- Joan Didion*
Shutter Island -- Dennis LeHane
42
April
Jitterbug Perfume -- Tom Robbins
The Ice Queen -- Alice Hoffman
Promise Me -- Harlan Coben
Gone -- Jonathan Kellerman
Darkest Fears -- Harlen Coben
Prayers for Rain -- Dennis LeHane
Sacred -- Dennis LeHane
Deal Breaker -- Harlen Coben
Darkness, Take My Hand -- Dennis LeHane
To the Power of Three -- Laura Lippman
Fear No Evil -- Allison Brennan
Shiver -- Lisa Jackson
Target -- Stella Cameron
Family Linen -- Lee Smith
Gone, Baby, Gone -- Dennis LeHane
Final Detail -- Harlan Coben (there's a theme here this month, yes)
One False Move -- Harlan Coben (the theme continues)
59
May
Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life -- Erica Jong*
Tom Waits (From the Kill Your Idol series)-- Cath Caroll*
Hide -- Lisa Gardner
First Counsel -- Brad Meltzer
Fugitives and Refugees -- A Walk Through Portland -- Chuck Palahniuk*
Nineteen Minutes -- Jodi Picoult
The Amber Room -- Steve Perry
Every Secret Thing -- Laura Lippman
The Tenth Justice -- Brad Meltzer
Dead Even -- Brad Meltzer
Clown Girl -- Monica Drake
The Woods -- Harlen Coben
Nickel Mountain -- John Gardner
Cage of Stars -- Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Pied Piper -- Ridley Pearson
74
June
Mystic River -- Dennis LeHane
Eden Close -- Anita Shreve
Mercy -- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Fate -- Brad Meltzer
Second Glance -- Jodi Picoult
All the Numbers -- Judy Merrill Larsen
The Missing -- Chris Mooney
The Cloud of Unknowing -- Thomas C. Cook
Boomsday -- Christopher Buckley
Ghost Orchid -- Carol Goodman
84
July
Grotesque -- Natsuo Kirino
White Ghost Girls -- Alice Greenway
Michael Tolliver Lives -- Armistead Maupin
The Last of Her Kind -- Sigred Nunez
A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini
Caught Stealing -- Charles Huston
The Pact -- Jodi Picoult
Lisey's Story -- Stephen King
Hidden Evidence: Forty true crimes and how forensic science helped solve them -- David Owen*
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J.R. Rowling
94
August
Rise and Shine -- Anna Quindlen
Back Spin -- Harlan Coben
The Boy in the Water -- Stephen Dobyns
The Millionaires -- Brad Meltzer
The Third Secret -- Steve Berry
Cheet -- Anna Davis
State of Mind -- John Katzenbach
The Assassini -- Thomas Gifford
Thank You For Smoking -- Christopher Buckley
You Don't Love Me Yet -- Jonathan Lethem
Tapping the Source -- Kem Nunn
105
September
In the Heat of the Summer -- John Katzenbach
Thunderhead -- Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston
The Dogs of Winter -- Kem Nunn
Fan Mail -- Ronald Munson
Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of Anheuser Busch -- Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey*
Imaginary Friends -- Allison Lurie
The J.A.P. Chronicles -- Isabel Rose
Hearts -- Hilma Wolitzer
The Twenty-Seventh City -- Jonathan Franzen
Keeper of the Keys -- Perri O'Shaughnessy
The Five Love Languages -- Gary Chapman*
Zanballer -- R.R. Knutsen
Body Surfing -- Anita Shreve
The Grave Tattoo -- Val McDermid
Scavenger -- David Morrell
The Mephisto Club -- Tess Gerritson
Practical Demonkeeping -- Christopher Moore
Wonderful Tonight : George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Me -- Pattie Boyd*
Six Bad Things -- Charlie Huston
Protecting Study Volunteers in Research -- Dunn, Chadwick*
Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research -- Robert Levine*
Goodnight, Irene -- Jan Burke
127
October
The Echo Maker -- Richard Powers
Water for Elephants -- Sarah Gruen
The Jane Austen Book Club -- Karen Joy Fowler
Jesus Land -- Julia Sheeres*
One Good Turn -- Kate Atkinson
The Shadow of Desire -- Rebecca Stowe
Bridge of Sighs -- Richard Russo
Rules of Attraction -- Bret Easton Ellis
The Gravedigger's Daughter -- Joyce Carol Oates
136
November
The Godfather -- Mario Puzo
In For the Kill -- John Lutz
The Book of Lost Things -- John Connolly
Exile -- Richard North Patterson
Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music -- Phil Ramone w/ Charles Granta*
The Mommy Club -- Sarah Bird (stupid title; good book)
Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead -- Phil Lesh*
Honeymoon with My Brother -- Franz Wisner*
My Misspent Youth -- Meghan Daum*
Down River-- John Hart
Playing for Pizza -- John Grisham
Next -- Michael Crichton
The Overlook -- Michael Connelly
Dark of the Moon -- John Sandford
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life -- Barbara Kingsolver*
Wild Years: They Music and Myth of Tom Waits -- Jay S. Jacobs*
152
December
Because Inside I'm Screaming -- Elizabeth Flock
Love is a Mix Tape -- Rob Sheffield
The Fourth Bear -- Jasper Fforde
1 Dead in Attic -- Chris Rose*
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood -- Koren Zailckas*
World Without End -- Ken Follett
Pillars of the Earth -- Ken Follett
Invisible Prey -- John Sanford
Comeback -- Mia Fontaine and Claire Fontaine*
161
Submitted by Christy
at 3/5/2007 8:40:38 AM- You should read it...it's one of the best books I've read this year.
Submitted by Kathy
at 3/28/2007 2:11:33 PM- The Year of Magical Thinking was amazing. Joan Didion is one of my favorites. Her prose is so clean, almost cold in a way.
Submitted by Christy
at 3/28/2007 2:18:22 PM- I haven't actually started yet (I had to start, in order to finish, another book first, so I can give it to its co-owner so that she can read it). My neighbor saw me with it on Sunday, and pretty much said the same thing, both about the book and about Didion. This is my first Didion book.
Submitted by TransDutch
at 3/29/2007 12:13:50 PM- So what did you think of Heart-Shaped Box? I've been thinking about reading it ever since Scalzi mentioned it, and I believe that was before the big reveal of who Joe Hill's father is.
Submitted by Christy
at 3/29/2007 12:25:06 PM- Heart Shaped Box was okay; I liked it better at the beginning and the end than I did the middle. I think it might have been better as a short-story or a novella.
Who's his father??? Now, I'm going to have to go look it up...
Submitted by christy
at 3/29/2007 12:31:30 PM- That's a pretty big reveal, I'd say. While I know his father's work very well, I'm really more a fan of his mother, several of whose works are among my very favorites.
Submitted by TransDutch
at 3/29/2007 1:36:29 PM- I read a lot of his father's works when in high school and college. (And seen most of the movies.) I haven't read any of his mother's work.
I bought On Beauty a year ago, and I still can't motivate myself to read it.