Top Books of 2007
Bookworm Amber Henry ('11) says she's been reading since she was "old enough to know what words were." Sounds qualified enough to recap this year's finest in the realm of reading.
Amber Henry
Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: Entertainment
Best Books of 2007
By Amber Henry
Staff Writer
Bookworm Amber Henry ('11) says she's been reading since she was "old enough to know what words were." Sounds qualified enough to recap this year's finest in the realm of reading.
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
A perfectly written and insightful book about a young black man who thought of himself as pre-programmed to fail in life trying to claim his piece of the American Dream that he thought had been promised him in his adolescence.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
An intense, post-apocalyptic novel that is overwhelming in the totality of its images, it is a constant deliberation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate resolve, and the compassion that keeps two people, a father and son, alive in the face of total devastation.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
A novel twenty-five years in the making, this dark and unforgotten epic of the American empire in decline makes you feel a closure on America's Vietnam experience that perhaps is necessary and as much of a finality as we're ever going to receive.
Then We Came To an End by Joshua Ferris
This insanely funny and philanthropic novel about life in the office tells how to cope with a business slump in the obviously conventional way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and of course, increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Terrified by all that he has forgotten, Thirty-year-old George Davies struggles to remember his childhood and what really happened in the months following his father's death all the while having visions of a mysterious murder; remembering the past becomes his only way to protect himself and his family.
By Amber Henry
Staff Writer
Bookworm Amber Henry ('11) says she's been reading since she was "old enough to know what words were." Sounds qualified enough to recap this year's finest in the realm of reading.
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
A perfectly written and insightful book about a young black man who thought of himself as pre-programmed to fail in life trying to claim his piece of the American Dream that he thought had been promised him in his adolescence.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
An intense, post-apocalyptic novel that is overwhelming in the totality of its images, it is a constant deliberation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate resolve, and the compassion that keeps two people, a father and son, alive in the face of total devastation.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
A novel twenty-five years in the making, this dark and unforgotten epic of the American empire in decline makes you feel a closure on America's Vietnam experience that perhaps is necessary and as much of a finality as we're ever going to receive.
Then We Came To an End by Joshua Ferris
This insanely funny and philanthropic novel about life in the office tells how to cope with a business slump in the obviously conventional way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and of course, increasingly frequent coffee breaks.
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
Terrified by all that he has forgotten, Thirty-year-old George Davies struggles to remember his childhood and what really happened in the months following his father's death all the while having visions of a mysterious murder; remembering the past becomes his only way to protect himself and his family.
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