Everywhere I look (especially on Amazon’s Blog) people are already talking about the best movies, books, and music of the year. Even though it’s only August. Nonetheless, I started thinking about the best books I’ve read this year, so far. My list’s purpose is much different, because it’s not exclusive to things released in 2007. Just to things I’ve actually read this year.
Da da dum, my list of favorites (in the order I read them this year):
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
And, for good measure, here’s my list of favorite YA books that I’ve read this year:
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Moxie Maxwell Does Not Love Stewart Little by Peggy Gifford
And, because it’s also different, here’s my list of favorite books purchased this year:
(This list is based mainly on the excitement of discovering the book and purchasing it)
Chip Kidd: Book One by Chip Kidd
Truman Capote by George Plimpton
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Special Illustrated Edition) by Bill Bryson
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
These lists will be more fun in December, and that will probably warrant more info/descriptions. But for now, this will do.
What are your favorite books of the year so far?
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