The books of 2007.

[rsadelle]

As usual, I've put my list of what I read this year.

Below are the best books I read this year, with first lines and in alphabetical order by author's last name. I couldn't quite narrow it down to five, so it's six again this year (although one of those is a trilogy, so you could count it as eight).

• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean.

  The year Janet started at Blackstock College, the Office of Residential Life had spent the summer removing from all the dormitories the old wooden bookcases that, once filled with books, fell over unless wedged.

• Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. [I sadly cannot find the actual first sentence for this (from the introduction), but only the first sentence from the first section, which isn't what I want to include here.]
• The Tin Star by J.L. Langley. [I don't have a first sentence for this either.]
• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scot Lynch. [No first sentence for this one either.]
• Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell.

  As far as I know, the only evidence supporting the theory that Julia Child first made Potage Parmentier during a bad bout of ennui is her own recipe for it.

• The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner.

  I don't know how long I had been in the king's prison.
  
  and
  
  He was asleep, but woke at the sound of the key turning in the lock.
  
  and
  
  Costis sat in his room.