Favorite Books 2007

Origin	Abu-Jaber, Diana
And Only to Deceive	Alexander, Tasha
Infidel	Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Garden Spells	Allen, Sarah Addison
Beauty of the Beastly, The: New Views of the Nature of Life	Angier, Natalie
Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Atkinson, Kate
Peter Pan	Barrie, J M
Jane and the Barque of Frailty	Barron, Stephanie
Breakout Principle, The: How to Activate the Natural Trigger That Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity, and Personal Well-Being	Benson, Herbert and William Proctor
Customer Mania! :  It’s Never Too Late To Build a Customer-focused Company	Blanchard, Kenneth
Year Without “Made in China”, A: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy	Bongiorni, Sara
Restless	Boyd, William
March	Brooks, Geraldine
Let It Shine: Three Favorite Spirituals	Bryan, Ashley
Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany	Buford, Bill
Heartsick	Cain, Chelsea
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis
My Antonia	Cather, Willa
Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The	Chabon, Michael
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest	Childs, Craig
Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List	Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist	Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan
Sarah’s Key	de Rosnay, Tatiana
Madonnas of Leningrad, The	Dean, Debra
Supernatural: Nevermore	DeCandido, Keith
Inheritance of Loss, The	Desai, Kiran
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The	Diaz, Junot
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The	DiCamillo, Kate
Great Expectations	Dickens, Charles
Maytrees, The	Dillard, Annie
Dog Years	Doty, Mark
Keep, The	Egan, Jennifer
What Is the What	Eggers, Dave
Trail of Tears : The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation	Ehle, John
Caesar’s Calendar : Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History	Feeney, Denis
Pest Control	Fitzhugh, Bill
Independence Day	Ford, Richard
Mistress of the Art of Death	Franklin, Ariana
History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, The	Fries, Kenny
North and South	Gaskell, Elizabeth
Spook Country	Gibson, William
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia	Gilbert, Elizabeth
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families	Gourevitch, Philip
Phryne Fisher series	Greenwood, Kerry
Boleyn Inheritance, The	Gregory, Philippa
Innocent Man, The	Grisham, John
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog	Grogan, John
Water for Elephants	Gruen, Sara
Porch Talk: Stories of Decency, Common Sense, and Other Endangered Species (“The Compact” chapter)	Gulley, Philip
Austenland	Hale, Shannon
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The	Hamid, Mohsin
How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen	Hoban, Russell
Kite Runner, The	Hosseini, Khaled
Thousand Splendid Suns, A	Hosseini, Khaled
Seems, The: The Glitch in Sleep	Hulme, John and Michael Wexler
Tree of Smoke	Johnson, Denis
Death List, The	Johnston, Paul
Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion	Jones, Daniel (editor)
Forgetfulness	Just, Ward
Birds in Fall	Kessler, Brad
Briar King, The	Keyes, Greg
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life	Kingsolver, Barbara, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L Hopp
Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI	Kollmann, Dana
Good Guy, The	Koontz, Dean
Historian, The	Kostova, Elizabeth
History of Love, The	Krauss, Nicole
Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See	Kurson, Robert
Moveable Thirst, A: Tales and Tastes from a Season in Napa Wine Country	Kushman, Rick and Hank Beal
Namesake, The	Lahiri, Jhumpa
Devil in the White City, The	Larson, Erik
Thunderstruck	Larson, Erik
Parting, The	Lewis, Beverly
Spellman Files, The	Lutz, Lisa
Corset Diaries, The	MacAlister, Katie
Lost City of Faar, The	MacHale, D J
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West	Maguire, Gregory
Depths	Mankell, Henning
Intruders, The	Marshall, Michael
Pleasure of My Company, The	Martin, Steve
Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950	Mazower, Mark
Color of Water	McBride, James
Brasyl	McDonald, Ian
Enduring Love	McEwan, Ian
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding	Mead, Rebecca
Eclipse	Meyer, Stephanie
300	Miller, Frank
Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery, L M
Indiscretion	Morgan, Jude
Gap Creek	Morgan, Robert
Three Cups of Tea : One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace– One School at a Time	Mortenson, Greg
Slummy Mummy	Neill, Fiona
Practically Perfect in Every Way	Niesslein, Jennifer
Time Traveler’s Wife, The	Niffenegger, Audrey
Black Powder War	Novik, Naomi
His Majesty’s Dragon	Novik, Naomi
Throne of Jade	Novik, Naomi
The Things They Carried	O’Brien, Tim
Mirror for Observers, A	Pangborn, Edgar
All of the Above	Pearsall, Shelley
Clementine	Pennypacker, Sara
Truck: a Love Story	Perry, Michael
Match Me if You Can	Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls	Pipher, Mary
Queen’s Secret, The	Plaidy, Jean
Home Remedies	Pneuman, Angela
Making Money	Pratchett, Terry
His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass	Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass	Pullman, Philip
His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife	Pullman, Philip
Against the Day	Pynchon, Thomas
Cures for Heartbreak	Rabb, Margo
How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life	Rath, Tom and Donald O Clifton
Silent in the Grave	Raybourn, Deanna
Pobby and Dingan	Rice, Ben
Everyman	Roth, Philip
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	Rowling, J K
Resolute : The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen’s Ghost Ship	Sandler, Martin W
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village	Schlitz, Laura Amy
Wednesday Wars, The	Schmidt, Gary D
White Rose: Munich 1942-1943	Scholl, Inge
Emma’s War	Scroggins, Deborah
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	See, Lisa
Bookseller of Kabul, The	Seierstad, Asne
Invention of Hugo Cabret, The	Selznick, Brian
Thirteenth Tale, The	Setterfield, Diane
Professor’s Daughter, The	Sfar, Joann
Sudden Pleasures	Small, Bertrice
Tantalize	Smith, Cynthia Leitich
FDR	Smith, Jean Edward
Christmas Letters, The	Smtih, Lee
On Agate Hill	Smtih, Lee
Eternal Sabbath, V. 1-8	Soryo, Fuyumi
Mars, V. 1-15	Soryo, Fuyumi
Now Is the Hour	Spanbauer, Tom
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan’s Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws’ Bloody Reign	Talty, Stephan
Race	Terkel, Studs
Over Hexed	Thompson, Vicki Lewis
Barchester Towers: Book 2 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Can You Forgive Her?	Trollope, Anthony
Dr. Thorne: Book 3 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Duke’s Children, The	Trollope, Anthony
Eustace Diamonds, The	Trollope, Anthony
Framley Parsonage: Book 4 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Last Chronicle of Barset: Book 6 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Phineas Finn	Trollope, Anthony
Phineas Redux	Trollope, Anthony
Prime Minister	Trollope, Anthony
Small House at Allington, The: Book 5 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Warden, The: Book 1 of the Barsetshire Chronicles	Trollope, Anthony
Accidental Tourist, The	Tyler, Anne
Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, V. 1-18	Urasawa, Naoki
Runaways, Vol. 1	Vaughan, Brian K
Runaways, Vol. 2	Vaughan, Brian K
Runaways, Vol. 3	Vaughan, Brian K
Snow Queen, The	Vinge, Joan
Absolute Kingdom Come	Waid, Mark and Alex Ross
Big Fish	Wallace, Daniel
Glass Castle, The	Walls, Jeanette
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA	Weiner, Tim
House of Mirth	Wharton, Edith
Flying Bed, The	Willard, Nancy
Tale of Pale Male, The	Winter, Jeanette
Secret World of Hildegard, The	Winter, Jonah and Johan Winter and Jeanette Winter
Story of a Girl	Zarr, Sara
Book Thief, The	Zusak, Markus