5 Books

During a blog browse I came across Amy's top 5 books of (let's say) 2007. It inspired me to think about mine, and in the end, it was hard to come up with just five! I love reading so much. It's wonderful that technology can't steal this from us.

1. Harry Potter. I didn't think Book 7 was as good as Books 4, 5 and 6, and I never found the final scene quite as dramatic as everyone else did, but I still tore through that thing like there were ants in my pants and the only way to get them out was to read. (Mixed metaphor there, sorry.)
2. Alice Munro, Runaway. A book of short stories that have characterization and plot like they were each novels. Amazing how deep and satisfying each story was.
3. Anne Tyler, Digging to America. An absolutely beautiful story about two different families who adopt babies from Korea.
4. Khaled Hosseni (sp? don't have book here in front of me) A Thousand Splendid Suns. For those who found The Kite Runner sweet but eye-roll worthy, this has all the humanity but none of the cheap writer's tricks.
5. Gus Lee, China Boy. It shouldn't have taken me until now to read this book, since I think it's made the awards rounds for years and countless college students have had to read it for literature classes. But it's so sad, and so funny, and so real. I love it.

This is what came from Amy's blog:

The rules: List five books that you have read in 2007 that you love. These do not have to be books that came out in 2007, but books that you (re)discovered/(re)read in 2007 that have become or are important to you. Link back to the person who tagged you. Tag five others.


(Amy, you didn't link to me but it was fun so I did it anyway! And instead of linking to individual people, I'll just put it out there for anyone to do. I'm always looking for a good book to read, so I'll take anyone's suggestions!)