book list 2007
rating system
***** - loved it
**** - liked it
*** - it was okay
** - didn't like it
* - hated it
January
1. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
288 pages (large print)
rating: *****
finished: 1/7/07
2. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
259 pages
rating: ****
finished: 1/14/07
3. Dead Watch by John Sandford
373 pages
rating: ***
finished: 1/14/07
4. Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman
262 pages
rating: *****
finished: 1/20/07
5. Where I'd Like to Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell
232 pages
rating: ****
finished: 1/21/07
6. I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
357 pages
rating: ****
finished: 1/29/07
February
7. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
178 pages
rating: *****
8. Why Moms are Weird by Pamela Ribon
285 pages
rating: ****
9. Step on a Crack by James Patterson
383 pages
rating: ****
10. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
243 pages
rating: ***
11. Slake's Limbo by Felica Holman
117 pages
rating: **
12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
257 pages
rating: ****
March
13. So B. It by Sarah Weeks
244 pages
rating: ****
14. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
455 pages
rating: *****
15. Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella
359 pages
rating: ***
16. Fire Star by Chris d'Lacey
461 pages
rating: ***
17. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
277 pages
rating: *****
April
18. A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
219 pages
rating: *****
19. The Friendship Test by Elizabeth Noble
437 pages
rating: *****
20. Midnighters: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
383 pages
rating: ****
21. Midnighters: Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld
439 pages
rating: *****
22. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
210 pages
rating: ****
23. Midnighters: Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld
504 pages
rating: ***
24. I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
318 pages
rating: ****
May
25. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
401 pages
rating: ****
26. Forever by Judy Blume
199 pages
rating: ***
27. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
198 pages
rating: ***
28. The Freedom Writers Diary
280 pages
rating: ***
29. Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain
386 pages
rating: *****
June
30. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
405 pages
rating: ****
31. So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld
225 pages
rating: ***
July
32. The First Time by Joy Fielding
485 pages
rating: ****
33. P.S., I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
375 pages
rating: ****
34. Eliot's Banana by Heather Swain
306 pages
rating: ****
35. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
403 pages
rating: ***
36. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (reread)
--- pages
rating: ****
August
37. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
759 pages
rating: ****
38. Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
250 pages
rating: ****
39. Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
220 pages
rating: **
40. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass
289 pages
rating: ****
41. The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul
352 pages
rating: ***
42. Through Thick and Thin by Alison Pace
280 pages (?)
rating: ****
43. Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide by Ralph Fletcher
172 pages
rating: *****
44. Notebook Know How: Strategies for the Writer's Notebok by Aimee Buckner
136 pages
rating: ***
45. If Andy Warhol Had A Girlfriend by Alison Pace
285 pages
rating: ****
46. Second Chance by Jane Green
374 pages
rating: ****
September
47. Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
274 pages
rating: ****
48. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
498 pages
rating: *****
49. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
563 pages
rating: *****
50. Margarettown by Gabrielle Zevin
291 pages
rating: **
51. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
271 pages
rating: *****
52. Cocktails for Three by Madeleine Wickham (aka Sophie Kinsella)
301 pages
rating: ****
53. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
627 pages
rating: *****
54. Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall by Wendy Mass
250 pages
rating: ***
55. Schooled by Gordon Korman
208 pages
rating: *****
October
56. The Toilet Paper Tigers by Gordon Korman
195 pages
rating: ***
57. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robinson
288 pages
rating: ***
58. Rules by Cynthia Lord
200 pages
rating: ****
59. The Gatecrasher by Madeleine Wickham
302 pages
rating: ****
November
60. The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
358 pages
rating: ***
61. The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
134 pages
rating: ****
62. The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
354 pages
rating: ****
63. What-The-Dickens by Gregory Maguire
295 pages
rating: ***
December
64. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
351 pages
rating: *****
65. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
288 pages
rating: *****