2007 Reading List
  1. Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love & Good Will [1]
  2. Anna Sewell, Black Beauty [1]
  3. Patricia Cornwell, Predator [1]
  4. Darcy Frey, The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams*^ [1]
  5. Paul John Eakin, How Lives Become Stories: Making Selves*^ [1]
  6. Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name*^ [1]
  7. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones^ [2]
  8. Mark Helprin, Ellis Island and Other Stories [1]
  9. Lisa Zunshine, Why We Read Fiction*^ [1] (2/22/07)
  10. Hans Christian Andersen, Andersen's Fairy Tales [1] (3/1/07)
  11. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim At Tinker Creek*^ [1] (3/9/07)
  12. Calvin Trillin, About Alice* [1] (started and finished on 3/10/07)
  13. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma* [1] (3/10/07)
  14. Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father*^ [1] (3/11/07-3/24/07)
  15. Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary*^ [1] (3/25/07-3/29/07)
  16. Ann Patchett, Bel Canto^ [1] (3/30/07-4/7/07)
  17. Anton Chekhov, The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories^ [1] (3/5/07-4/14/07)
  18. Martin Amis, London Fields [1] (4/13/07-4/28/07)
  19. Francine Prose, Reading Like A Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them* [1] (4/9/07-5/1/07)
  20. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone [3] (5/6/07-5/10/07)
  21. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets [3] (5/11/07-5/14/07)
  22. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera [1] (5/1/07-5/25/07)
  23. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban [3] (5/23/07-5/29/07)
  24. Eric Bentley, ed., Life is a Dream and Other Spanish Classics: Four Plays [1] (5/29/07-6/8/07)
  25. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire [3] (6/2/07-6/15/07)
  26. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix [3] (6/15/07-6/22/07)
  27. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind In The Willows [1] (6/22/07-6/24/07)
  28. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince [3] (6/24/07-7/4/07)
  29. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason, The Rule Of Four [1] (7/13/07-7/15/07)
  30. Calvin Trillin, Alice, Let's Eat* [1] (6/26/07-7/18/07)
  31. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows [1] (started and finished on 7/21/07)
  32. Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City [1] (7/22/07-7/24/07)
  33. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest [1] (7/24/07-7/26/07)
  34. Will Blythe, To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever* [1] (8/9/07-8/14/07)
  35. Carl Hiaasen, Skinny Dip [1] (8/14/07-8/17/07)
  36. Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning [1] (started and finished on 8/17/07)
  37. Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room [1] (started and finished on 8/18/07)
  38. Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window [1] (8/21/07-8/23/07)
  39. Peter David, Dinotopia: The Maze # [1] (8/22/07-8/24/07)
  40. Scott Lobdell & Daniel Rendon, The Hardy Boys, Undercover Brothers: Sea You, Sea Me # [1] (started and finished on 8/26/07)
  41. Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill [1] (8/24/07-8/27/07)
  42. Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy [1] (8/27/07-8/29/07)
  43. Tomie De Paola, Fin M'Coul # [1] (started and finished on 8/29/07)
  44. Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator [1] (8/29/07-8/30/07)
  45. Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village [1] (8/30/07-9/1/07)
  46. Diane Wolkenstein, The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales # [1] (8/29/07-9/1/07)
  47. Ai-Ling Louie (retold by), Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella story from China # [1] (started and finished on 9/4/07)
  48. Jenny Nimmo, Midnight for Charlie Bone # [1] (9/5/07-9/6/07)
  49. Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital [1] (9/1/07-9/7/07)
  50. Robert Olen Butler, Had A Good Time [1] (7/24/07-9/7/07)
  51. Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival [1] (9/7/07-9/11/07)
  52. Candice F. Ransom, Listening To Crickets: a story about Rachel Carson* # [1] (started and finished on 9/12/07)
  53. Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder* [1] (started and finished on 9/15/07)
  54. Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass [1] (9/12/07-9/16/07)
  55. William Cocke, A Historical Album of Virginia* # [1] (started and finished on 9/16/07)
  56. Avi, The Barn # [1] (started and finished on 9/19/07)
  57. Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope [1] (9/11/07-9/20/07)
  58. Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto [1] (9/20/07-9/23/07)
  59. Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril [1] (9/24/07-9/25/07)
  60. Paula Danziger, Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon # [1] (9/25/07-9/26/07)
  61. Lemony Snicket, The End [1] (9/25/07-9/27/07)
  62. Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography [1] (9/28/07-10/2/07)
  63. Steve Almond, Candyfreak* [1] (10/2/07-10/4/07)
  64. Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife [1] (10/7/07-10/9/07)
  65. Carolyn Arnold, Watch Out For Sharks!* # [1] (started and finished on 10/9/07)
  66. Seymour Simon, Sharks* # [1] (started and finished on 10/9/07)
  67. Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson, Linnea's Windowsill Garden # [1] (10/9/07-10/10/07)
  68. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking* [1] (10/9/07-10/12/07)
  69. Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere # [1] (10/17/07-10/18/07)
  70. Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass [1] (10/12/07-10/21/07)
  71. John Bellairs (completed by Brad Strickland), The Vengeance of the Witch-Finder # [1] (10/23/07-10/24/07)
  72. Virginia Hamilton, The House of Dies Drear # [1] (10/30/07-11/5/07)
  73. David Macaulay, Cathedral: The Story of its Construction* # [1] (started and finished on 11/11/07)
  74. Valerie Worth (illustrations by Natalie Babbitt), Peacock and Other Poems # [1] (started and finished on 11/25/07)
  75. Valerie Worth (illustrations by Natalie Babbitt), Small Poems Again # [1] (started and finished on 11/25/07)
  76. Roald Dahl, Matilda # [a lot] (11/29/07-12/2/07)
  77. John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things [1] (12/12/07-12/20/07)
  78. Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale [1] (12/20/07-12/23/07)
  79. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows [2] (12/24/07-12/28/07)

Bold indicates a particular favorite.
* denotes non-fiction
^ denotes a book read for my Seminar in Information & Culture
# denotes a book read for my Children's Literature class
Numbers in brackets indicate how many times I've read a particular book.
Dates following titles indicate the dates I started and finished the book.

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