<p>Back by popular demand (and a private request from Cheers! 
), What is the best book that you have read in 2007?</p>
<p>I have to confess that ever since I discovered CC, I have been reading a lot less books. Like Suna, I really enjoyed Suite Francaise (which I read a few months ago)…A very moving book!</p>
<p>I would love to get some new recommendations!</p>
<p>Mostly non-fiction for me so far:</p>
<p>Freakonomics
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
The God Delusion</p>
<p>All three are great books. Even if you don’t agree with everything the author’s have to say, you’ll get to see some very interesting points of view :)</p>
<p>Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert</p>
<p>wonderful</p>
<p>Boomsday, the end drags a little, and I’m told that it is not as fun as some of his other books, but still satirical. I’m buying my college soph daughter a copy for her coming home from France gift.
Improbably, it combines her favorite political cause - that her generation will never be as successful as ours partly because we Baby Boomers will be siphoning off all their taxes in SS - and one of her favorite pieces of literature - Jonathan Swift’s “a Modest Proposal”. I’ll leave it to your imagination.</p>
<p>Whoops, probably the best 2 books though - Book Lust and More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl. She is a librarian who does a spot for one of the public radio shows on books and book clubs, in fact I think she was one of the original movers and shakers behind the notion of modern book clubs. It is just a series of short articles on different types of books to read - just the thing that this group would LOVE. Her tastes are very eclectic, and my list is getting longer and longer.</p>
<p>Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen</p>
<p>Water For Elephants
Eat, Pray Love
The Memory’s Keeper’s Daughter
Wildfire
Devil in the White City
My Sister’s Keeper</p>
<p>The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst.</p>
<p>!</p>
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>Other people have read Water for Elephants?</p>
<p>My boyfriend’s father gave that to me for Christmas, I just got around to reading it a couple weeks ago. I had the impression it was a less-popular book, but what are the chances…?</p>
<p>(It was a good book. And I just got around to reading Wicked recently, too, and I can’t believe I missed it for so long!)</p>
<p>On the non-fiction front, I’ve been reading The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson, and it’s an extremely interesting non-technical look at the development of the English language and its place in the world.</p>
<p>Nonfiction favorites in past few months:
Rowing to Latitude (Jill Fredston)
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt)
Marley and Me (John Grogan)
Don’t Shoot the Dog (Karen Pryor)
Losing the Garden (Laura Waterman)</p>
<p>My fiction reading tends to be pretty forgettable, although I have liked Philippa Gregory’s series (The Other Boleyn Girl et al) and have rediscovered Edith Wharton recently.</p>
<p>I’m enjoying The Laments, a first novel by George Hagan. I read a review in the IHT and ordered it last year. Finally got around to taking it off the library shelf and home to read.</p>
<p>Snow Flower and the Secret Fan</p>
<p>Looking forward to the new Michael Chabon.</p>
<p>The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
A Family Trust, Ward Just</p>
<p>Hey Gamefreak, I just started reading the God Delusion. Looks like an interesting read so far. Hmm…</p>
<p>I read Water for Elephants over the Christmas break (when I did not have access to the internet or CC :)…I enjoyed it!</p>
<p>Deafening- an unknown that’s great</p>
<p>not nearly as intellectual as some, but since i’ve been out of school for a few days, i’ve been reading through these like crazy…</p>
<p>the woods–harlan coben
19 minutes–jodi picoult
body surfing–anita shreve
home to big stone gap–adriana trigiani</p>
<p>i have a huge stack ready and waiting–i buy books all year long, then once school is out…i dive in and barely get anything else done.</p>
<p>I just finished Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. It is a good cross-over novel as well between young adult and adult fiction.</p>
<p>I’m rereading Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy in anticipation of the movie coming out this fall. Trilogy includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.</p>