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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2007, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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A wordless seaside adventure begins when a boy finds an underwater camera filled with impossible photographs.
Twin sisters, a professor, a houseboy, and an English writer are drawn into the Biafran War. Their relationships change under secession, hunger, displacement, and violence.
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
A critical institutional history of the CIA based on archival documents and extensive interviews.
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
An elderly poet restored by advanced medicine must learn to live in a near future saturated with augmented reality and ubiquitous networks. His uneasy return to school intersects with an intelligence operation involving mind control and the future of public knowledge.
A Spokane teenager leaves his reservation school and narrates the resulting grief, conflict, friendship, and hope.
After her brother Liam dies, Veronica Hegarty gathers her large Irish family and revisits their unstable childhood memories. Grief draws her toward a buried history of abuse and complicity.
A resourceful girl in a tiny desert town searches for stability and her own idea of a higher power.
In 1836 Istanbul, eunuch court investigator Yashim is ordered to find four missing officers before the sultan announces a modernized military corps. A murder and signs of the abolished Janissaries draw him through palace politics and a city caught between tradition and reform.
A narrative history tracing al-Qaeda's growth, its leaders, and the intelligence failures preceding September 11.
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Linda Colley was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
A father and son cross an ash-covered America after an unnamed catastrophe. Their bond and code of goodness are tested by starvation, exposure, and violence.
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
In an alternate history where a temporary Jewish settlement flourished in Alaska, detective Meyer Landsman investigates the murder of a gifted chess player. The case draws him into religious politics, family grief, and a conspiracy unfolding as the settlement faces reversion to American control.
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2007 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Meditative poems move between war, art, landscape, domestic life, and the responsibilities of witness.
CIA operative Skip Sands enters a psychological operation during the Vietnam War under his legendary uncle. Soldiers, agents, missionaries, and civilians move through violence and compromised belief.
