I keep a list of books I read each year — here are the books I read in 2007.
Key:
☆ I liked it a lot.
★ I highly recommend it!
✘ …not so much.
↻ Re-read. (I’m big on revisiting favorite books. Maybe I should blog about that.)
- Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay
- How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
- ★ ↻ The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- ☆ ↻ Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
- ☆ Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
- How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead by Ariel Gore
- Chic and Slim: How Those Chic French Women Eat All That Rich Food and Still Stay Slim by Anne Barone
- ☆ ↻ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
- ☆ ↻ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
- ★ ↻ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
- ★ ↻ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
- Gems and Minerals of the Bible by Ruth V. Wright and Robert L. Chadbourne
- Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
- Create a Plot Clinic by Holly Lisle
- ★ Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg
- Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today by Lynne Truss
- ★ Majipoor Chronicles by Robert Silverberg
- ☆ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- ★ Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip
- ★ ↻ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- ☆ ↻ A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
- ★ Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
- ★ ↻ A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
- ★ ↻ The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
- Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L’Engle
- ☆ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- ★ Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson
- ↻ Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
- ☆ The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- ★ ↻ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- ★ ↻ The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
- ★ ↻ The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
- Bono, in Conversation with Michka Assayas by