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Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson · 2007 · 2 honors
2
Flotsam
David Wiesner · 2007 · 1 honor
3
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2007 · 1 honor
4
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 2007 · 1 honor
5
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner · 2007 · 1 honor
6
Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Kalish · 2007 · 1 honor
7
Man Gone Down
Michael Thomas · 2007 · 1 honor
8
Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson · 2007 · 1 honor
9
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge · 2007 · 1 honor
10
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie · 2007 · 1 honor
11
The Gathering
Anne Enright · 2007 · 1 honor
12
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron · 2007 · 1 honor
13
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin · 2007 · 1 honor
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright · 2007 · 1 honor
15
The Nine
Jeffrey Toobin · 2007 · 1 honor
16
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Linda Colley · 2007 · 1 honor
17
The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross · 2007 · 1 honor
18
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2007 · 1 honor
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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño · 2007 · 1 honor
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabon · 2007 · 1 honor
21
Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris · 2007 · 1 honor
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Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005
Robert Hass · 2007 · 1 honor