YOUR Best Books of 2007

[jtb1951]

Enough of "Best Books of 2007" lists put together by some schmo in a back office somewhere; let's hear it from all of you! What are your favorite books published in 2007? What did you enjoy? Readers unite! Let's hear it from the folks that count! What?! I'm supposed to start? OK, here's some of my faves that were/will be published this year (the will be is there for a reason, of course!) And I make no apologies or disclaimers for my taste in reading materials!:)

Touchstone by Laurie R. King (am I a suck-up, or what!)
Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Spook Country by William Gibson
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Name Of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
A Thousand Deaths by George Alec Effinger (posthumous)
The Terror by Dan Simmons
Things Will Never Be The Same by Howard Waldrop
Sixty Days And Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Sons Of Heaven by Kage Baker
Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker
The Sharing Knife: Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold
Axis by Robert Charles Wilson
The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien (posthumous)
Ascendancies by Bruce Sterling
The Winds Of Marble Arch by Connie Willis

I would recommend any of them for your reading enjoyment!

John.

[Kiyomi]

I would add-
Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey
Making Money by Terry Pratchett
White Night by Jim Butcher
Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong

I'm sure there are some other I should add that you haven't already mentioned, but off the top of my head that's what I can remember.

[vicki]

Oooh--great idea for a thread!

Touchstone by LRK!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
The Road by Cormack McCarthy
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (thanks to John and Piper for the recs!)
The Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (ditto!)
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (thanks Mamaocllo!!)
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
<edit>Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz</edit>

I'm sure I'm leaving something out and will think of it just as I'm dropping off to sleep.

[vicki]

Ack! I did forget a terrific book that I just listened to--Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. I really, really enjoyed it and look forward to listening to the next one, Forever Odd. I'm trying to do the audiobook thing for the next few weeks, as I have an afghan I need to finish before Christmas and am crocheting myself silly in every spare moment. <Goes upthread to edit Odd Thomas into previous post>

Sheri, you mentioned regency--have you read Georgette Heyer's regency books? They're so much fun! I think you'd really like them. I think you might also like Sharon Shinn--Archangel might be a good place to start, or maybe Summers at Castle Auburn. I'm also especially fond of Robin McKinley's Damar books--The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown. Have you tried the Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series? They're lots of fun.

I read a Catherine Coulter a few years ago that was fun and have been meaning to read something by Jayne Ann Krentz--where is a good place to start with her stuff?


there's always something more.


Very apt description--could even be a tagline! In fact, that might be another fun idea for a thread--coming up with a tagline for LRK's work. Not a simple thing, as her stuff is so smart, broad-ranging and hard to classify. It's like Peter Dickinson's work that way--even the jacket copy on his books sounds like the marketing people pulled their hair out trying to come up with a pithy description. :) Another good possibility is a phrase LRK used to describe her work in an interview I read a while back--"entertainment with dimension."

[jtb1951]

and am crocheting myself silly in every spare moment.

Pardon my stream of consciousness, but when I read this line the vision of a life-sized, grinning, Vicki-shaped afghan popped into my head;). Yoicks!!

John.

[vicki]

Crocheted people do look a little weird (http://www.lair-wildscape.com/images/crochet_doll02.jpg), it's true. :D

[KarenB]

nice bow in the hair!

[jtb1951]

Very good!!!:)

John.

[vicki]

<Curtseys> :D

[Kiyomi]

I can just picture a crocheted Vicki trying to maneuver yarn legs to curtsey and getting tangled up LOL You must be really patient to crochet people, tiny crocheting is difficult!