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jillyfish's "2007 reading list"

Just to stop me reading aspirational glossy interiors mags… any cultural self-improvement is a bonus.
1. The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel By
by Eudora Welty
  
2. Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
3. The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
  
4. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
5. Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively
  
6. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
by Richard Layard
  
7. A Confederacy of Dunces (Essential.penguin)
by John Kennedy Toole
  
8. The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
  
9. Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
  
10. The Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
  
11. Stasiland
by Anna Funder
  
12. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
  
13.
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 Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
  
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
15. The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
  
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7)
by J. K. Rowling
  
17. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
18. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
19. Restless: A Novel
by William Boyd
  
20. I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
  
21. The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton
  
22. Affluenza
by Oliver James
  
23. Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Flamingo Modern Classic)
by Doris Lessing
  
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Created by jillyfish on Feb 25, 2007.