 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $1.19 This came in the number one spot with 15 votes
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 | The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $12.58 The Kite Runner received 12 votes, one of them was mine. I think this is a really important book. Like To Kill A Mockingbird, it opens our minds to an experience we can't even imagine.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.98 This received 11 votes
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 | Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: $5.50 / Used from: $2.35 This received 5 votes, and all the mentions of this book did prompt me to read the series. Which I enjoyed, but wouldn't call a favorite.
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 | The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.19 This also received 5 votes, and also prompted me to read this book. I found it very dark ... just the way I like it!
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 | Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.25 received 4 votes (though for 2008 it's in the number 1 spot)
I thought it was a good book, but not as much as others.
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 | The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2008 of the 2006 publication) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.79 Also received 4 votes, one of them mine. I thought this was a brilliant book. To describe it in one word: Bleak.
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 | The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.45 Also received 4 votes.
It's one of my favorites as well, and I'm glad to see people are still reading it.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 Also got 4 votes. I haven't read it.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $0.01 Also with 4 votes.
I read this in 2008 and loved it. It took me about 200 pages to really start loving it, but I was very glad I stuck it out.
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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 4 votes
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 | My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 3 votes
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 3 votes
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 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.16 3 votes (I've had this book for 3 years, I really need to get to reading it soon!)
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.12 3 votes
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 3 votes
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy: "Northern Lights", "Subtle Knife", "Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $24.56 / Used from: $10.85 3 votes, plus 3 honorable mentions.
I too loved this series, I thought it was outstanding. The second book was my favorite.
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 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Buy used from: $5.90 3 votes.
I read this book this year, and all I can say is I don't understand how it's anybody's favorite ... but, to each his own.
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 | Eclipse Special Edition (The Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy used from: $3.97 3 votes
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 | Girl with a Pearl Earring, Deluxe Edition by Tracy Chevalier
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.61 3 votes
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 | Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.08 Also 3 votes.
I read the series and loved it! Even the much maligned 3rd book.
for 2007 the rest of the books with 2 votes each:
19 Minutes, Black Swan Green, Dogs of Babel, Heart-Shaped Box, In the Woods, Into the Wild, Kafka on the Shore, On Chesil Beach, The Book Thief, The Memory Keepers Daughter, The Stolen Child, No Country for Old Men, Marley and Me, New Moon
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