Village Voice: Best Books of 2007

Another "best books" list, this one from the Village Voice. Their writers picked their 20 best for 2007. I'm posting the titles, but you'll have to go to the Village Voice to read the text.

A Russian Diary
by Anna Politkovskaya
random house, 369 pp., $25.95

All About H. Hatterr
by G.V. Desani
NYRB Books, 318 pp., $15.95

An Elemental Thing
by Eliot Weinberger
New Directions, 194 pp., $16.95

The August Wilson Century Cycle
by August Wilson
TCG, 10-volume box set, $200

Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
by Paul Rambali
Serpent's Tail, 315 pp., $20

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Riverhead Books, 335 pp., $24.95

Christine Falls
by Benjamin Black
Henry Holt & Co., 340 pp., $25

Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts
by Clive James
W.W. Norton, 768 pp., $35

Ice
by Vladimir Sorokin
NYRB, 321 pp., $23.95

The Life of Kingsley Amis
by Zachary Leader
Pantheon, 996 pp., $39.95

The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
by Judith Freeman
Pantheon, 353 pp., $25.95

No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Scribner, 205 pp., $23

Nobodies
by John Bowe
Random House, 304 pp., $25.95

Novels in Three Lines
by Félix Fénéon
NYRB, 174 pp., $14

Petropolis
by Anya Ulinich
Viking, 324 pp., $24.95

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Metropolitan Books, 558 pp., $28

Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
by Mick Brown
Knopf, 453 pp., $26.95

Varieties of Disturbance
by Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 219 pp., $13

What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 376 pp., $24.95

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
HarperCollins, 432 pp., $26.95

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