The 10 Best Books of 2007 The New York Times Book Review

Fiction:

1. MAN GONE DOWN by Michael Thomas
2. OUT STEALING HORSES by Per Petterson
3. THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES by Roberto Bolaño
4. THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris
5. TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson

Nonfiction:

1. IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2. LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
3. THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
4. THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in History by Linda Colley
5. THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross