TSR Listmania! Favourite Books of 2007, Part 10

Posted 19 December, 2007 in Favourite Books of 2007 |

Amy Shearn is a Brooklyn-based writer and teacher. Her writing has appeared at Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, the Mississippi Review, and Bookslut, among other places. Her first novel, How Far Is the Ocean from Here, is due for release in January.

Amy Shearn:

I kept putting this off and thinking too much about it because I am indecisive and worry about hurting books’ feelings. These things are so hard! But I think my favourites that came out this year were:

Modern Life, poems by Matthea Harvey

Hotel Theory, by Wayne Koestenbaum

No One Belongs Here More than You, by Miranda July

Famous Fathers, by Pia Z. Ehrhart

Twenty Grand, by Rebecca Curtis

An Absolute Gentleman, by R.M. Kinder.

Books that didn’t come out this year that I happened to read and particularly loved included:

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, by Kathryn Davis

Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters, by J.D. Salinger

Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor.

But then, I feel like somehow I didn’t read very much this year, comparatively I mean.  Well, it’s been busy. Also I listened on audiobook to The World Without Us, by Alan Wiseman. I can’t decide if that counts as reading, but at any rate I really enjoyed it.

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The complete collection of lists can be found by clicking on the category link Favourite Books of 2007.

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