Book List 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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*
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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*
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