2007 Book List

Despite the fact that 2007 was a year of significant events and adjusting to a nomadic life, I faithfully kept up with my reading list. English-language books are predictably hard to find! I'm lucky to find even a bookshelf's worth of them in the towns around here, and even then half of the shelf is Harry Potter books, which just isn't my style! To top it all off, the books are expensive: 8 Euros or more for paperbacks, and if you factor in the current exchange rate for the dollar, well....

As usual, I read a lot in a variety of genres. My recommendations are the titles with bold comments, and if you have any questions or comments about a particular book, please feel free to ask!

1. Year Zero, Jeff Long Good book


2. Hitler's Children, Gerald Posner


3. A Simple Act of Murder, Mark Fuhrman


4. Death Watch, John Sandford


5. Judge & Jury, James Patterson


6. Arthur & George, Julian Barnes


7. Blackbird House, Alice Hoffman Beautifully written


8. The Probable Future, Alice Hoffman


9. The United States of Arugula, David Kamp


10. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt


11. Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper


12. Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iraq, Jason Elliott


13. Dark Horse, Tami Hoag


14. Local Girls, Alice Hoffman


15. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle


16. His Last Bow, Arthur Conan Doyle


17. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan Sheds light on the Organic movement--the back story--as well as how food ends up in our plates. Informative.


18. Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08,No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War, Greg Palast


19. The Book of Fate, Brad Meltzer


20. The Collectors, David Baldacci


21. Ice Cream: The Delicious History, Marilyn Powell


22. Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home, Nando Parrado with Vince Rause


23. You'll Never Nanny in This Town Again, Suzanne Hansen


24. The Power Broker, Stephen Frey


25. The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland


26. Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light, Mort Rosenblum If you're a chocophile, it's worth reading.


27. A Year in the World, Frances Mayes


28. Joan: The Mysterious Life of the Heretic who Became a Saint, Donald Spoto


29. Taken, Chris Jordan


30. Next, Michael Crichton. Book takes an absurd but also realistic look at genetic engineering.


31. Leading with My Chin, Jay Leno


32. False Impression, Jeffrey Archer


33. Imperium, Robert Harris


34. The Alexandria Link, Steve Berry


35. Happy at 100, John Robbins Highly recommended


36. Step on a Crack, James Patterson


37. The Romanov Prophecy, Steve Berry


38. An Englishman à la Campagne, Michael Sadler


39. Of Paupers and Peers, Sherri Cobb South


40. The Last Empress, Anchee Min


41. The Expected One, Kathleen McGowan


42. Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber


43. The Qur'an, Bruce Lawrence


44. Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris


45. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai


46. The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld


47. My Dog Skip, Willie Morris


48. Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture—And Destruction of Planet Earth, Grace Halsell


49. Ten Days to Die, Michael Musmanno Interesting and disturbing look into the last days of a madman


50. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen


51. A Place Called Here, Cecilia Ahern


52. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova Excellent, excellent book


53. Hour Game, David Baldacci


54. Wicked, Gregory Maguire


55. The Swarm, Frank Schätzing Great start, disappointing ending