The Top 20 books of 2007 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top Books of 2007

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Each year, BookBrowse subscribers rate their favorite books of the year to choose our Top 20 Best of Year titles. More about how the books are selected.

Before I Die

by Jenny Downham

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: May 2009

Critics' Consensus:

The story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming.

Someone Knows My Name

aka: The Book of Negroes

by Lawrence Hill

Hardcover: Nov 2007 | Paperback: Nov 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home.

Young Stalin

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Oct 2008

Critics' Consensus:

A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.

The Uncommon Reader

A Novella

by Alan Bennett

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who ...

White Blood

by James Fleming

Hardcover: Jan 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution.

Cheating at Canasta: Stories

Stories

by William Trevor

Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that ...

The Zookeeper's Wife

A War Story

by Diane Ackerman

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

A true story, as powerful as Schindler’s List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

A Novel

by Brock Clarke

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

As a teenager, Sam Pulsifer's accidentally torches an American landmark, and killed two people in the blaze. After ten years in prison, he thinks he has put his past behind him - but when the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and...

Tree of Smoke

A Novel

by Denis Johnson

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

This story of Skip Sands - spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel.

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Stories

by Vincent Lam

Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of today’s doctors, patients, and hospitals.

Heart in the Right Place

A Memoir

by Carolyn Jourdan

Hardcover: May 2007 | Paperback: Aug 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir about the down-sizing of Carolyn Jourdan's life from white marble columns, gilded domes, and Neiman Marcus to naugahyde, peeling linoleum, and Wal-mart...

Blonde Faith

by Walter Mosley

Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Aug 2008

Critics' Consensus:

The tenth Easy Rawlins thriller puts him on the streets of LA to solve a case that threatens the lives of his closest friends.

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