Things read in 07

Explore a curated list of books read in 07—discover top reads, hidden gems, and literary favorites for your next great adventure in reading.

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The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

Argues that belief in God is irrational, and describes examples of religion's negative influences on society throughout the centuries, such as war, bigotry, child abuse, …
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Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on …
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The Children of Men

by P. D. James

A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race …
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Winkie

by Clifford Chase

In this debut novel, a mild-mannered teddy bear named Winkie finds himself on the wrong side of America's war on terror.--From publisher description.
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Mother Night

by Kurt Vonnegut

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is …
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

by Sam Harris

Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify …
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Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)

 

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Atonement

by Ian McEwan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness that provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative …
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Enduring Love

by Ian McEwan

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change …
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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss …
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Oblomov

 

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Amsterdam

by Ian McEwan

Two friends meet at the funeral of their former lover, who had many lovers and make a pact that affects the rest of their lives …
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

by George Saunders

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, and the novel Lincoln in the …
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale

by Art Spiegelman

The bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and …
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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death …
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale

by Art Spiegelman

The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and …
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The Last Man

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre …
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High-rise

by J. G. Ballard

An eerie glimpse into the future, a spine-tingling fable of the concrete jungle.
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The Intuitionist

 

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The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix …
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Pastoralia

by George Saunders

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the …
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The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that …
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God is Not Great

by Christopher Hitchens

"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.
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Night

by Elie Wiesel

Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Michael Tolliver Lives

by Armistead Maupin

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender …