Wizard Wellbeing - All The Books I Read in 2007

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All The Books I Read in 2007

	Sacred Country by Rose Tremain Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.33 Set in rural Suffolk, a tale of family madness, love and American country music. This one really catches at your heart.
	The Seven Dials Mystery (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie Buy used from: £0.01 A classic in every way. Very much of its time!
	Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl Buy used from: £0.55 A very quirky novel, very rambling with a wonderful comment on modern American life. Brilliant pictures add to the quirky narrative. Very much shades of Tartt's Secret History.
	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £0.01 A brilliant tale of what happens when Prime Ministers get a bit between their teeth: the Iraq sequences here are very moving.
	The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £0.01 A stunning detective story set in New York at the time of a visit to that great city by Freud. Incredible descriptions of skyscrapers being built and the 1900s in general. A clever take on Hamlet!
	The Cutting Room: A stunning work of fiction. Sunday Times by Louise Welsh Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dark and macabre in every way. Drugs and sex abound. This is not for the faint-hearted!
	The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 THE outstanding read of the year for me. Stunning in every way. A captivating narrative, slightly flawed by a weak ending though...
	Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Atwood is a master (mistress?) of the written word and if you like historical fiction, this is a must. Makes you want to strike out for Old Canada straight away.
	Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Cracker of a novel set in the Pacific in the 1990s. Mister Pip reworks Dickens novel Great Expectations for the Commonwealth. Shame no Booker for this one.
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) [Adult Edition] by J. K. Rowling Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £0.01 Read it so quick that all I can really remember is them camping by the River Wye (did this in 2007 too) and the ending...which I shan't spoil.
	David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.59 Superb if incredibly lengthy. He has SUCH a way with characters; you just don't forget them. Just the mention of names like Micawber and Murdstone bring it all back to you!
	Atonement by Ian McEwan Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning...my second best read of the year. Great beautiful writing about the 1930s. Chapter 9 is simply mind boggling in the way it draws you in from the first Fauvist image
	Letter from America (Penguin Celebrations) by Alistair Cooke Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.53 Took these to the Sahara Desert and every on of these 'letters' gave me a slightly better picture of Americans and the American Way. Loved the 'Letter' on Robert Frost's death in 1963
	Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 Finally got round to reading this as the film came out. Compelling and powerful, from the gypsy boats of Oxford all the way to Bolvanger. Verging on Sci-Fi, this is SO much more than a child's book!