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A friend whose acquaintance I suddenly and miraculously remade requested my top books of 2007. In order to name these, I first had to determine which books, exactly, I read in 2007. The list, chronological and as complete as I could make it, can be found behind the cut. And
The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
But is it art? Cynthia Freeland
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Under the 82nd Airborne, Deborah Eisenberg
Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Deborah Eisenberg
Star Dust, Frank Bidart
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Middlesex, George Eliot
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Goodnight Architecture, Gretchen Mattox
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
World’s Tallest Disaster, Cate Marvin
Pesthouse, Jim Crace
One Big Self, CD Wright
Under the Skin, Michael Faber
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Tom Kealey
Where Shall I Wander, John Ashberry
Lithium for Medea, Kate Braverman
The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mark Twain
The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal
And Now You Can Go, Vendela Vida
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Roald Dahl
On With The Story, John Barth
Ant Farm, Simon Rich
Samuel Johnson is Indignant, Lydia Davis
Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung (that was a spectacular week.)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Cate Marvin
The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
Pandora, Anne Rice
Marie Antoinette, Antonia Fraser
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Glass, Irony and God, Anne Carson
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Yves Klein, Hannah Weitemeier
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Oliver Sacks
Francis Bacon, Andrew Brighton
Top 3 of these:
Man and His Symbols
The Beauty of the Husband
Samuel Johnson is Indignant
Fin.
The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
But is it art? Cynthia Freeland
An American Childhood, Annie Dillard
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Under the 82nd Airborne, Deborah Eisenberg
Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Deborah Eisenberg
Star Dust, Frank Bidart
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Middlesex, George Eliot
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
Goodnight Architecture, Gretchen Mattox
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
World’s Tallest Disaster, Cate Marvin
Pesthouse, Jim Crace
One Big Self, CD Wright
Under the Skin, Michael Faber
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl
The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Tom Kealey
Where Shall I Wander, John Ashberry
Lithium for Medea, Kate Braverman
The Adventures of Huck Finn, Mark Twain
The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal
And Now You Can Go, Vendela Vida
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Roald Dahl
On With The Story, John Barth
Ant Farm, Simon Rich
Samuel Johnson is Indignant, Lydia Davis
Man and His Symbols, Carl Jung (that was a spectacular week.)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
Fragment of the Head of a Queen, Cate Marvin
The Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
Pandora, Anne Rice
Marie Antoinette, Antonia Fraser
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, Amy Sedaris
Glass, Irony and God, Anne Carson
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Yves Klein, Hannah Weitemeier
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Oliver Sacks
Francis Bacon, Andrew Brighton
Top 3 of these:
Man and His Symbols
The Beauty of the Husband
Samuel Johnson is Indignant
Fin.