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I love books and I'll read just about anything. I tend to read a lot of literary fiction and classics, but I'm always looking for recommendations. I'm in my 20s and have been reading for as long as I can remember. My Rating System (I rate on my personal reaction to the book): ★ = one star ☆ = 1/2 star ★★★★★: A new favorite, a must-read ★★★★: Liked it a lot ★★★: Nothing special, but OK ★★: Not my cup of tea ★: Waste of time
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2007 Books




1.    The Freedom Writers Diary by Freedom Writers - ★★★★

2.    The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick - ★★★★

3.    Swapping Lives by Jane Green - ★★★☆

4.    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - ★★★★☆

5.    Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - ★★★★

6.    Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut - ★★★★

7.    We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver - ★★★★★

8.    The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon - ★★★

9.    The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - ★★★★★

10.    Away Laughing on a Fast Camel by Louise Rennison - ★★★★

11.    Men and Cartoons: Stories by Jonathan Lethem - ★★★★☆

12.    Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - ★★

13.    Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut - ★★★★

14.    The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory - ★★★

15.    The Ha-Ha by Dave King - ★★★★

16.    The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - ★★★★

17.    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving - ★★★☆

18.    The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon - ★★★★★

19.    Stardust by Neil Gaiman - ★★★★☆

20.    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling - ★★★★★

21.    American Gods by Neil Gaiman - ★★★★

22.    The Road by Cormac McCarthy - ★★★★

23.    The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket - ★★★

24.    Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell - ★★★★

25.    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - ★★★★★

26.    Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier - ★★★★

27.    Light on Snow by Anita Shreve - ★★★☆

28.    Black Friday by James Patterson - ★☆

29.    For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - ★★★★

30.    Where Angels Fear To Tread by E. M. Forster - ★★★

31.    A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - ★★

32.    Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri - ★★★★★

33.    Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - ★★★★★

34.    Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot - ★★★☆

35.    Plainsong by Kent Haruf - ★★★

36.    Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte - ★★★★

37.    A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde - ★★★★

38.    A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury - ★★★★

39.    And Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - ★★★

40.    Sisterchicks Say Ooh La La! by Robin Jones Gunn - ★★★☆

41.    Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem - ★★★★

42.    Under the Duvet by Marian Keyes - ★★★★

43.    The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory - ★★★★

44.    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir by A. E. Hotchner - ★★★★

45.    American Pastoral by Philip Roth - ★★★☆

46.    A Passage to India by E.M. Forster - ★★★☆

47.    Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - ★★★★

48.    Shopaholic & Baby by Sophia Kinsella - ★★★☆

49.    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - ★★★★

50.    Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - ★★★

51.    All Over But the Shoutin by Rick Bragg - ★★★★★

52.    Daisy Miller by Henry James - ★★★★

53.    The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen - ★★★

54.    A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut - ★★★★★

55.    The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - ★★☆

56.    Montana 1948 by Larry Watson - ★★★☆

57.    Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - ★★★★★

58.    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - ★★★★

59.    Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy - ★★★★

60.    Enduring Love by Ian McEwan - ★★★

61.    This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgeral - ★★★

62.    The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson - ★★★★

63.    Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel - ★★★

64.    A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage by Mark Twain - ★★★

65.    The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri - ★★★★

66.    The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Robinson - ★★★

67.    The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy - ★

68.    Audrey Hepburn: A Biography by Warren G. Harris - ★★★

69.    For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn - ★★★

70.    Forever in Blue by Ann Brashares - ★★★★☆

71.    Songbook by Nick Hornby - ★★★★

72.    A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - ★★★★☆

73.    Howards End by E. M. Forster - ★★★★★

74.    The Lake House by James Patterson - ★★

75.    Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris - ★★★★★

76.    The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields - ★★★★

77.    Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris - ★★★★

78.    Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown by Michael Cunningham - ★★

79.    Inventing the Abbots and Other Stories by Sue Miller - ★★

80.    Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - ★★★

81.    Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw - ★★★★

82.    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - ★★★★★

83.    Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins - ★★★

84.    The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - ★★★★★

85.    C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton - ★★★☆

86.    Life of Pi by Yann Martel - ★★★★

87.    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson - ★★★★☆

88.    East of Eden by John Steinbeck - ★★★☆

89.    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - ★★★★★

90.    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon - ★★★★

91.    D is for Dahl by Roald Dahl - ★★★★★

92.    Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - ★★★★★

93.    Inverne's Stage and Screen Trivia by James Inverne - ★★★★

94.    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - ★★☆

95.    The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - ★★★★☆

96.    Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech - ★★★★

97.    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris - ★★★★★

98.    You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers - ★★★

99.    Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire - ★★★☆

100.    Jack & Jill by James Patterson - ★★☆

101.    The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 by American Society of Magazine Editor - ★★★★

102.    Watership Down by Richard Adams - ★★★★

103.    The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - ★★

104.    The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - ★★★★

105.    Sisterchicks Down Under by Robin Jones Gunn - ★★★☆

106.    Along Came a Spider by James Patterson - ★★★

107.    Xenocide (Ender, Book 3) by Orson Scott Card - ★★★★

108.    The Aspern Papers and Other Stories by Henry James - ★★★★☆

109.    Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand - ★★★

110.    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - ★★★★

111.    Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - ★★★★

112.    Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach - ★★★☆

113.    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - ★★★★★

114.    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - ★★★★★

115.    The Feast of Love : A Novel by Charles Baxter - ★★★★

116.    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafis - ★★★☆

117.    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling - ★★★★★




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