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I'm convinced there's no such thing as a bad year for books. Every year wonderful books are published and every year you discover hidden gems of books that have been around for years that have just made it into your reading piles. Every year through books we discover new places, new people, new lives.
Sometimes we see ourselves in books and learn something about ourselves. I did when I read and reviewed The New Single Woman and judging from the responses, a lot of you saw something there as well. The same thing happened to me when I read Eat, Pray, Love.
We saw the end of Harry Potter and JKR revealed something about one of the characters that never fully appeared in the books. We celebrated 50 years On the Road.
There were lots of discussions about banned books and having the freedom to read. One blogger received hate mail for declaring a GLBT reading month.
And that's just a smattering of what we've talked about here. Looks like a darned good year of books to me. People have been posting their favourites of the year for weeks now but I'm superstitious and figure if I post early I'll then read the world's most amazing book the next day. But with only hours left in the year I'm pretty confident in posting my faovurite reads of 2007.
Sassymonkey's favourite reads of 2007:
Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair by blogger Laurie Perry
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska by John Green
Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande
Long May She Reign by Ellen Emmerson White
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Poison Study and Magic Study by Maria Snyder
My favourite author discoveries of the year were Georgette Heyer (regency romances...awesome!), John Green (YA), and Shannon Hale (YA but also made a foray into contemporary romance in 2007).
I could list probably another ten books that I really enjoyed but I'm trying not to list every book I liked this year. You will notice there's a lot of young adult literature on this list. About one-third of the books I read in the last year were YA and yet they account for the majority of this list. There's some really good young adult literature out there.
One of the things I love about book blogger's end of the year lists versus traditional media lists is that bloggers look at what they read over the year, not just the new books that came out. They have books on their lists that you can find in second-hand bookstore and in bargain bins and that don't have a 600 reader long waiting list at the library. So if you are looking for some inspiration for next year check out some of these lists. Start your lists of what you want to read next year and set some reading goals because next time I'll be talking about the multitude of full year reading challenges I found for 2008!
Ragdoll's best books of 2007 (fiction)
Bluestalking Reader's end of the year countdown (fiction)
Book-a-rama's best and worst of 2007.
Chasing Ray's best graphic novels of 2007
Reading the Past's best historical fiction reads
Framed and Booked's five star reads in 2007
What were your favourite books this year?
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
