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The votes are in for the most notable books of 2007! Based on reviews and editorial opinions from literary and publisher magazines here are some of the most notable books of the previous year.
 
Fiction
 

The abstinence teacher
by Tom Perrotta

After dark
by Haruki Murakami

The almost moon
by Alice Sebold

American youth
by Phil LaMarche

 The archivist's story
by Travis Holland

The assassin's song
b
y M.G. Vassanji  

The bad girl
by Mario Vargas Llosa

Bearing the body
by Ehud Havazelet

Body of lies
by David Ignatius

Bridge of sighs
by Richard Russo

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz

Call me by your name
by André Aciman

Cheating at canasta
by William Trevor

The choice
by Nicholas Sparks

The complete stories
by David Malouf

Dexter in the dark
by Jeff Lindsay

Knots
by Nuruddin Farah    

Late nights on air
by Elizabeth Hay  

Let the Northern Lights erase your name
by Vendela Vida  

Like you'd understand, anyway: stories
by Jim Shepard   

 Lost City Radio
by Daniel Alarcón

 Man gone down
by Michael Thomas  

Matrimony
by Joshua Henkin    

The Maytrees
by Annie Dillard  

The Ministry of Special Cases
by Nathan Englander  

Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones

 Mistress of the art of death
by Ariana Franklin

 My Holocaust
by Tova Reich

 Nineteen minutes
by Jodi Picoult

October
by Richard B. Wright

 On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan  

 

The raw shark texts
by Steven Hall  

The reluctant fundamentalist
by Mohsin Hamid  

Divisadero
by Michael Ondaatje  

The end of the alphabet

by C.S. Richardson    

Exit ghost
by Philip Roth  

Falling man
by Don DeLillo  

Fellow travelers
by Thomas Mallon    

A free life
by Ha Jin  

The gathering
by Anne Enright  

The gum thief
by Douglas Coupland

Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
by J.K. Rowling JR 883hd

Heart-shaped box
by Joe Hill  

Helpless
by Barbara Gowdy    

House lights
by Leah Hager Cohen    

The Indian clerk
by David Leavitt

Run
by Ann Patchett  

The savage detectives
by Roberto Bolaño    

Septembers of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer  

The shadow catcher
by Marianne Wiggins

 Spook country
by William Gibson  

Sunstroke and other stories
by Tessa Hadley  

Surveillance
by Jonathan Raban  

The Terror
by Dan Simmons

Then we came to the end
by Joshua Ferris    

A thousand splendid suns
by Khaled Hosseini  

Throw like a girl: stories
by Jean Thompson

 Tree of smoke
by Denis Johnson

 Varieties of disturbance: stories
by Lydia Davis

White walls: collected stories
by Tatyana Tolstaya  

Winterton blue
by Trezza Azzopardi

 The Yiddish policemen's union
by Michael Chabon

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Non-Fiction

 

About Alice
by Calvin Trillin  

The age of turbulence: adventures
in a new world

by Alan Greenspan

Agent Zigzag: a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
by Ben MacIntyre
 

The atomic bazaar: the rise of the nuclear poor
by William Langewiesche

Beijing confidential: a tale of comrades lost and found
by Jan Wong  

A billion bootstraps : microcredit, barefoot banking, and the business solution for ending poverty
by Phil Smith, Eric Thurman

The Brain that changes itself
by Norman Doidge

Brother, I'm dying
by Edwidge Danticat  

Chasing kangaroos
by Tim Flannery  

Cultural amnesia: notes in the margin of my time
by Clive James  

Deep economy : the wealth of communities and the durable future
by Bill McKibben  

Down the Nile : alone in a fisherman's skiff
by Rosemary Mahoney  

Einstein: his life and universe
by Walter Isaacson  

Evolution for everyone: how Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives
by David Sloan Wilson  

Extraordinary evil : a brief history of genocide
by Barbara Coloroso   

Foreskin's lament: a memoir
by Shalom Auslander  

 

 

God is not great : how religion poisons everything
by Christopher Hitchens

How doctors think
by Jerome Groopman  

Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier
by Ishmael Beah  

Memoirs : 1939-1993
by Brian Mulroney  

The mess they made: the Middle East after Iraq
by Gwynne Dyer  

My years as Prime Minister
by Jean Chrétien    

The nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin
   

Poor people
by William T. Vollmann  

Prisoner of Tehran: a memoir
by Marina Nemat         

Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain
by Maryanne Wolf  

Rather laugh than cry : stories from a Hassidic household
by Malka Zipora    

Shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism
by Naomi Klein  

Two lives: Gertrude and Alice
by Janet Malcolm  

The years of extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
by Saul Friedländer  

The world without us
by Alan Weisman

The volunteer : a Canadian's secret life in Mossad
by Michael Ross  

 
Notable Books 2007