Books Ive read in 2007 - with ratings

Explore my curated list of books read in 2007, complete with personal ratings and reviews. Discover top-rated reads and hidden gems from my 2007 reading journey!

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The Birth of Venus

by Sarah Dunant

Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to …
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Empire Falls

by Richard Russo

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in …
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Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most …
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Caught Stealing

by Charlie Huston

A retired baseball player finds himself fighting for his life in this “fantastically hopped-up thriller [with] a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock” (Entertainment Weekly, Editor’s …
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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that …
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

by John le Carre

Featuring an Introduction by the author, the crowning Cold War masterwork is once again available in a collector's trade edition.
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Tourist Season

by Carl Hiaasen

The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's …
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The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.
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Old School

by Tobias Wolff

The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider …
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Six Bad Things

by Charlie Huston

Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So …
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Here be Dragons

by Sharon Kay Penman

"A masterful picture of Wales in the 13th century...vivdly pictured as grandly beautiful, its people volatile, stubborn and mystic." THE SAN DIEGO UNION Thirteenth-century Wales …
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

The Newbery Medal-winning author of "The Tale of Despereaux" returns with this story about a toy rabbit named Edward Tulane. When he becomes lost, Edward …
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The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

A Vietnam veteran-turned-police detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an attractive FBI …
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