best books of 2007

So I tend to read mostly fiction so that’s what I’ve culled as far as folk’s favorites. This keeps a nice tally on more books to stack in my ever growing ‘to read’ pile. Perhaps if I turned off the tv a little more frequently I’d make more progress. In alphabetical order by author, *denotes favorite/#1 pick.

• Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman – PW
• Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón – LA
• The House of Meetings by Martin Amis – LG
• Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski – LA, PW, SK
• Away by Amy Bloom – LA
• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano – Am, LA, NYT, PW, WP
• The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke – PW
• Five Skies by Ron Carlson – LA
• The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon – LA, SK
• Finn by John Clinch – WP
• Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money by Rebecca Curtis – LA
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies – BG
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo – Am, BG, LA, PW
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz – Am, JR, LA, LG*, PW
• The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische – LA
• The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas- WP
• The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander – LA
• The Gathering by Anne Enright – Am, BG, LA
• Zeroville by Steve Erickson – LA
• Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris – JR, LG, NYT
• Twilight by William Gay – SK
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen – SK
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid – PW 
• The Ghost by Robert Harris – SK
• Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison – PW
• The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey – PW
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill – PW
• The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland – PW
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini – Am*, LG
• Body of Lies by David Ignatius – PW
• A Free Life by Ha Jin – JR
• Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson – Am, BG, LG, NYT, PW, SK, WP
• No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July – LG
• Bowl of Cherries by Millard Kaufman – PW
• The God of Animals: A Novel by Aryn Kyle – Am
• What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman – PW
• The Complete Stories by David Malouf – PW
• Them by Nathan McCall – PW
• Remainder by Tom McCarthy – LA, PW
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan – BG, JR, WP
• Red Rover by Deirdre McNamer – LA
• The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu – Am
• The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels – LA
• The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates – JR
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell – Am
• Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan – PW
• Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan – JR
• Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson – JR, LG, NYT
• Surveillance by Jonathan Raban – PW 
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling – LG, SK
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo – Am, LA, SK 
• Shakespeare’s Kitchen by Lore Segal – JR
• Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe – LA, PW
• Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard – LA, LG
• The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver – JR, LG
• The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva – PW
• The Terror by Dan Simmons – JR, SK
• Beyond Reach  by Karin Slaughter – PW
• Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas – NYT
• White Walls: Collected Stories by Tatyana Tolstaya – PW
• Cheating at Canasta: Stories by William Trevor – BG, LA
• Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh – SK
• The Shadow Catcher: A Novel by Marianne Wiggins – LA, PW

Am – Amazon, BG – Boston Globe, LA- LA Times, NYT-New York Times, JR – Jennifer Reese for EW, LG – Lev Grossman at Time, PW – Publisher’s Weekly, SK – Stephen King for EW (read in 2007), WP – Washington Post

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