Five D.C.-Focused Books You Might Have Missed in 2007
Sure, you picked up a book or two last year. You tore through God Is Not Great, nodding in agreement along the way. You read Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows on the Metro, brandishing the cover proudly and caring little that anyone saw you. You read a lot of graphic novels. And, then, just for grins and giggles, you picked up The Divine Comedy in the original Italian.
Okay, maybe you read this version instead.
But life is short and literature is long. And hey, you were busy. So there’s probably an ever growing list of stuff you didn’t get around to reading last year.
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