Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Ones to read and ones to skip…. The Best and Worst of 2007

Here’s my best and worst list of 2007. I will say that I don’t have great recall of the books I read early in the year so there is a chance there are some really good ones or really bad ones that don’t make this list.

Best Chick Lit:
1. The Dog Walker (#73)
2. The Spinster Sisters (#100)
3. Room For Improvement (#39)
4. Happiness Sold Separately (#85)
5. The Godmother (#86)
6. Dedication (#66)
7. Fourth Comings (#62)
8. Alphabet Weekends (#16)
9. Joyride (#43)

Best Fiction:
1. The Rest of Her Life (#70)
2. What the Dead Know (#23)
3. The Kindness of Strangers (#6)
4. Lost and Found (#99)
5. The Faraday Girls (#80)
6. To The Power of Three (#27)
7. Catching Genius (#18)
8. Between, Georgia (#38)

Best Nonfiction:
1. In An Instant (#20)
2. Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited (#93)
3. Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce and Culture (#89)
4. Louder Then Words (#78)

Books to Avoid:
I Take This Man; Whitethorn Woods; Summer People, Wine, Tarts & Sex; I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell; The friends we keep; The Saturday Wife; Durable Goods; The Dominant Blonde;