jillelvish's "Best Books I Read in 2007"

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I read 178 books in 2007, and these are my picks for 10 best nonfiction (listed first) and 10 best fiction.

  1. 2.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  2. 3.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

  3. 4.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  4. 6.
    High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  5. 7.
    Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
    by Albert Gore

  6. 8.
    The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
    by Mary S. Lovell

  7. 9.
    An Hour Before Daylight : Memories of a Rural Boyhood
    by Jimmy Carter

  8. 10.

  9. 11.
    Nickel and Dimed
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

  10. 12.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

  11. 13.
    Fair and Tender Ladies (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Lee Smith

  12. 14.
    Enchantment
    by Orson Scott Card

  13. 15.
    The Robber Bride
    by Margaret Atwood

  14. 16.
    Vanity Fair
    by William Thackeray

  15. 17.
    The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  16. 18.
    The Game
    by Laurie R. King

  17. 19.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  18. 20.
    ?
    Queen Lear (King Penguin)
    by Molly Keane

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Created by jillelvish on Sep 24, 2008.
 

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Untitled — 3 years ago

178! I thought my 70 was amazing til I saw this – can you speed read?




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