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jillelvish's "Best Books I Read in 2007"

I read 178 books in 2007, and these are my picks for 10 best nonfiction (listed first) and 10 best fiction.
1. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
  
2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
  
3. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
4. Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
5. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
  
6. High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
7. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by Albert Gore
  
8. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
by Mary S. Lovell
  
9. An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood
by Jimmy Carter
  
10. The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall
  
11. Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
  
12. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
by Betty Smith
  
13. Fair and Tender Ladies (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Lee Smith
  
14. Enchantment
by Orson Scott Card
  
15. The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood
  
16.
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 Vanity Fair
by William Thackeray
  
17. The Custom of the Country (Penguin Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
18. The Game (King, Laurie R)
by Laurie R. King
  
19.
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 Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
20.
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 Queen Lear (King Penguin)
by Molly Keane
  
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Created by jillelvish on Sep 24, 2008.