Book lists

2008 mini reviews
September/October 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008

2007 mini reviews
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007

2007 complete books read
SEE ALSO: 2007 books organized by category, which is how I think of them and may be more helpful in finding interesting read.

Heat - Bill Buford
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
Snow Blind - P.J. Tracy
*Two in a Bed - Paul Rosenblatt
* An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
I like you: Entertaining under the influence - Amy Sedaris
Girls - Frederick Busch
*American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
The Doctor's Wife- Ariyoshi Sawako
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Boy Book- E. Lockhart
Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
* Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
* Poster Child: A Memoir - Emily Rapp
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Candy Girl: A year in the life of an unlikely stripper - Diablo Cody
Unseen - Mari Jungstedt
Cancer Vixen - Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Life as we knew it - Susan Beth Pfeffer
Great with child: Letters to a young mother - Beth Ann Fennelly
Falling boy - Alison McGhee
Two in the Wild - Susan Fox Rogers
Astrid and Veronika - Linda Olsson
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
*The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
Shyness and Dignity - Dag Solstad
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
The Inheritance of Sorrow - Kiran Desai
*The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade - Ann Fessler
*If you lived here - Diana Sachs
The looniness of the long distance runner - Russell Taylor
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

Waking: A memoir of trauma and transcendence - Matthew Sanford
Gaining: The truth about life after eating disorders - Aimee Liu
Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
*Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See - Robert Kurson
Girl Stories - Lauren Weinstein
*Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States - Pete Jordan
*An Encyclopedia of Ordinary Life - Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Plain Janes - Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
Cabin Pressure: One Man's Futile Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor - Josh Wolk
Pretty Little Mistakes - Heather McElhatton
Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott
I love you Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night - Peggy Orenstein
Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild - Paul Gruchow
Dangerously Alice - Phyllis Naylor
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (reread) - J.K. Rowling
The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Ericksson
*On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
Frenemies - Megan Crane
Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
Austenland - Shannon Hale
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant - Daniel Tammet
The Sweet Edge by Alison Pick
Without a Map - Meredith Hall
Two-part invention: The story of a marriage - Madeline L'Engle
Second Opinions: Stories of intuition and choice in a changing world of medicine - Jerome Groopman
Swapping Lives - Jane Green
Literacy and Longing in L.A. - Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America - Linda Furiya
Fourth Comings - Megan McCafferty
The Discomfort Zone - Jonathan Franzen
Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea - Catherine Goldhamme
The Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million - Daniel Mendelsson
The Best of Friends: Two women, two continents, and one enduring friendship - Sara James and Ginger Mauney
Women, Water, Wisdom: Voices from the Upper Mississippi - Nancy Scheibe
Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin
Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour - Mark Leyner
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve
Here if you need me: A true story by Kate Braestrup
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Novel by Leonie Swann
The Headmaster Ritual by Taylor Antrim
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A year of food life, by Barbara Kingsolver
Identical Strangers: A memoir of twins separated and reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
Gluten Free Girl by Shauna James Ahern
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
*Deep survival : who lives, who dies, and why : true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death by Laurence Gonzales
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
*Let the northern lights erase your name by Vendela Vida
The simple home : the luxury of enough by Sarah Nettleton and Frank Edgerton Martin
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume by Jennifer O'Connell, et al