Recommended Reading - Publisher Weekly's Best Books of 2007

Fiction

▪ Call Me by Your Name André Aciman

▪ Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski

▪ The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño

▪ The Tin Roof Blowdown James Lee Burke

▪ Falling Man Don DeLillo

▪ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz

▪ The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid

▪ Returning to Earth Jim Harrison

▪ The Chicago Way Michael Harvey

▪ Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill

▪ The Archivist's Story Travis Holland

▪ Body of Lies David Ignatius

▪ Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson

▪ Bowl of Cherries Millard Kaufman

▪ What the Dead Know Laura Lippman

▪ The Complete Stories David Malouf

▪ Them Nathan McCall

▪ Remainder Tom McCarthy

▪ Be Near Me Andrew O'Hagan

▪ Surveillance Jonathan Raban

▪ Jamestown Matthew Sharpe

▪ The Secret Servant Daniel Silva

▪ Beyond Reach Karin Slaughter

▪ White Walls: Collected Stories Tatyana Tolstaya

▪ The Shadow Catcher Marianne Wiggins

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Non-fiction

▪ The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Rick Atkinson

▪ A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah

▪ The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 Tim Blanning

▪ Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. Burt Boyar

▪ Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat

▪ The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Saul Friedländer

▪ Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America Jonathan Gould

▪ Graffiti L.A. Steve Grody

▪ How Doctors Think Jerome Groopman

▪ The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein

▪ The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts Milan Kundera

▪ The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor William Langewiesche

▪ Edith Wharton Hermione Lee

▪ First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson Edited by Michael G. Long

▪ Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle over Global Warming Chris Mooney

▪ Coltrane: The Story of a Sound Ben Ratliff

▪ The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Barbara Bisantz Raymond

▪ Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race Richard Rhodes

▪ The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War Graham Robb

▪ The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade William St. Clair

▪ Touch and Go: A Memoir Studs Terkel

▪ Shadow of the Silk Road Colin Thubron

▪ Poor People William T. Vollman

▪ Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Tim Weiner

▪ Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain Maryanne Wolf

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