the magnificent seven

Top 7 books of each year, 2011 onward. Limited to first-time encounters.

2015

            The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
            The Day on Fire by James Ramsey Ullman
            July, July by Tim O'Brien
            The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'Engle
            Good Woman by Lucille Clifton
            East of Eden by John Steinbeck
            Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

2014

            The Terrible Stories by Lucille Clifton

            The Help by Kathryn Stockett

            Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

            Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor

            The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

            I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 
            Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

2013

           

            A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L’Engle

            A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

            Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

            Home by Julie Andrews

            Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller

            The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

            The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

2012

            And Both Were Young by Madeleine L’Engle

            Certain Women by Madeleine L’Engle

            A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle

            My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

            War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

            Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

            Freedom Writer’s Diary by Erin Gruwell

2011

            To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

            The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

            Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

            Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies

            Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

            Hamlet by William Shakespeare

            Quilting by Lucille Clifton