Reading List 2007

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FICTION:

  1. Embers, Sandor Marai
  2. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
  3. The Lives of Rocks, Rick Bass
  4. The Foreign Correspondent, Alan Furst
  5. Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger
  6. The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McKewan
  7. I Sailed with Magellan, Stuart Dybak
  8. The Road, Cormac McCarthy
  9. The Dying Animal, Philip Roth
  10. Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison
  11. Later the Same Day, Grace Paley
  12. Devotion, Howard Norman
  13. Falling Man, Don DeLillo
  14. Spook Country, William Gibson
  15. On Chesil Beach, Ian McKewan
  16. Youth and The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  17. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

NON-FICTION

  1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
  2. An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore
  3. Where Books Fall Open, Bascove
  4. Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman
  5. The Boston Harbor Islands, Sherman Morss
  6. Lifework, Donald Hall
  7. So Many Books, So Little Time, Sara Nelson
  8. A Reading Diary, Albert Manguel
  9. Rereadings, Anne Fadiman
  10. Through the Children’s Gate, Adam Gopnik
  11. Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose
  12. A Pound of Paper, John Baxter
  13. Vegetable, Animal, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
  14. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
  15. The Little Book of Commonsense Investing, John Bogle
  16. Mahler: His Life and Music, Stephen Johnson
  17. Wandering Home, Bill McKibben
  18. Time and Tide, Frank Conroy
  19. Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuscinski
  20. Cape Wind, Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb
  21. At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman
  22. Never a City so Real, Alex Kotlowitz
  23. Mozart, Peter Gay
  24. The Health Care Mess, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein
  25. Your Money or Your Life, David Cutler
  26. Sick, Jonathan Cohn
  27. Post Secrets, Frank Warren

POETRY:

  1. Saving Daylight, Jim Harrison
  2. On Earth, Robert Creeley
  3. Curves and Angles, Brad Leithauser
  4. Messenger, Ellen Voigt
  5. Strong is Your Hold, Galway Kinnell
  6. White Apples and the Taste of Stone, Donald Hall
  7. On Retirement, Robin Chapman and Judith Strosser, editors
  8. The Blizzard Voices, Ted Kooser
  9. Pursuit of a Wound, Sidney Lea

GARDENING AND NATURE:

  1. Stone, Andy Goldsworthy
  2. The Potting Shed, Charles Elliott
  3. Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology, Michael Collier
  4. The Desert Year, Joseph Wood Krutch
  5. Reflections from the North Country, Sigurd Olson

MYSTERY:

  1. Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane
  2. Echo Park, Michael Connelly
  3. High Profile, Robert Parker
  4. Deal Breaker, Harlen Coben
  5. Aqua Alta, Donna Leon
  6. Prayers for Rain, Dennis Lehane
  7. The Overlook, Michael Connelly
  8. Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon