My Favorite Books of 2007
An incomplete list:
Fiction
Chris Abani, Song for Night (Akashic)
Amiri Baraka, Tales of the Out and the Gone (Akashic)
Ron Currie Jr., God is Dead (Viking)
Trinie Dalton, A Unicorn is Born (Abrams)
Steve Erickson, Zeroville (Europa Editions)
Percival Everett, The Water Cure (Graywolf)
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (FSG)
Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male (NYRB)
Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the Kind of England (New Directions)
Travis Jeppesen, Wolf at the Door (Twisted Spoon P)
Gyula Krúdy, Sunfolwer (NYRB)
Rick Moody, Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (Little, Brown)
Stewart O’Nan, Last Night at the Lobster (Viking)
Aaron Petrovich, The Session (Hotel St. George)
Lydie Salvayre, The Power of Flies (Dalkey Archive P)
Selah Saterstrom, The Meat and Spirit Plan (Coffee House P)
Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Knopf)
Roland Barthes, What is Sport? (Yale UP)
Madison Smartt Bell, Toussaint Louverture (Pantheon)
Herodotus, The Landmark Herodotus (Pantheon)
A.M. Homes, The Mistress’s Daughter (Viking)
Sally Jenkis, The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, a Nation (Doubleday)
Deborah Kapchan, Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace (Wesleyan UP)
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New Directions)
Peter Nádas, Fire and Knowledge (FSG)
Henry David Thoreau, To Myself (Yale UP)
Gabriel Gudding, Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive P)
Ron Silliman, The Age of Huts (Compleat) (U of California P)
Victor Segalen, Stèles (Wesleyan UP)
Robert Stone, Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Ecco)
Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor (Dalkey Archive P)
William T. Vollmann, Poor People (Ecco)