On December 5, 2007, Forum listeners shared their favorite books of the year. Listen to archived-edition of the program, and browse the list of books mentioned on the show.

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• The Savage Detectives: A Novel -- Roberto Bolano
• Ben Franklin: An American Life -- Walter Issacson
• Gentlemen of the Road -- Michael Chabon
• The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon -- Tom Spanbauer
• Flight: A Novel (young adult) -- Sherman Alexie
• On Chesil Beach -- Ian McEwan
• The Land of Green Ginger -- Noel Langley and Edward Ardizzone
• Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health -- L. Ron Hubbard
• Back in a Moment: A Look Back at Life and Radio in Minnesota -- Harley and June Hathers
• Martyr of the Amazon: The Life of Sister Dorothy Stang -- Roseanne Murphy
• Away: A Novel -- Amy Bloom
• The General and His Daughter: The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to his Daughter Barbara (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension) -- Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy
• Tree of Smoke -- Denis Johnson
• 1984 -- George Orwell
• Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild -- Greg Palast
• All Over Coffee -- Paul Madonna
• Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It -- Brett C. Millier
• Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Border -- Joel Hafvenstein
• 1421: The Year China Discovered America -- Gavin Menzies
• The Secret River -- Kate Grenville
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason -- Sam Harris
• I Don't Believe in Atheiests -- Chris Hedges
• Seige of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda -- Yaroslav Trofimov
• Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature -- D. Graham Burnett
• Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory -- David Ray Griffin
• The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life -- Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
• Proust Was a Neuroscientist -- Jonah Lehrer
• How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel -- Alain de Botton
• May It Please the Court: Live Recordings and Transcripts of Landmark Oral Arguments Made Before the Supreme Court Since 1955 -- Peter Irons and Stephanie Guitton
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court -- Jeffrey Toobin
• A History of Reading -- Alberto Manguel
• Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Healthcare Professionals -- Terri Moss and Martin Helldorfer
(available at mosscommunications.net)
• The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness -- Jerome Groopman
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time -- Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life -- Michael Krasny
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain -- Oliver Sachs
• Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao -- Junot Diaz
• Bel Canto -- Ann Patchett
• Ten Years Behind the Mast -- Fritz Damler
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime -- Mark Haddon
• Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years -- David Talbot
• A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
• A Thousand Splendid Suns -- Khaled Hosseini
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close -- Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Language of God -- Francis C. Collins
• The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot -- Naomi Wolf
• Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
• Charming Billy -- Alice McDermott
• Island in the Sea of Time -- S.M. Stirling
• I Am Legend -- Richard Matheson