Things Read in 2007 Part 2

Explore Part 2 of 'Things Read in 2007,' featuring a curated list of books read that year. Discover top reads, hidden gems, and literary favorites from 2007.

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Under the Banner of Heaven

by Jon Krakauer

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated …
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Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate …
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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into …
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The Lost Language of Cranes

by David Leavitt

David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against …
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Saturday

by Ian McEwan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement follows an ordinary man through a Saturday whose high promise gradually turns nightmarish …
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The folding star

 

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Runaways

by Brian K. Vaughan

When six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome …
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The garden party, and other stories

 

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