The results are in and all bets are off! We just didn’t see all that non-fiction coming. From Heaven to Starbucks and Harry to Stalin our staff has picked the best from all genres.

Books published in 2007

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The top picks with two votes each were:
Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Book of Joby – Mark J. Ferrari

The Best of the Rest:


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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian – Sherman Alexie
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
– Orlando Figes
How Starbucks Saved My Life – Michael Gates Gill
Lean Mean Thirteen – Janet Evanovich
At First Sight – Nicholas Sparks
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy – Vincent Bugliosi
New Amsterdam – Elizabeth Bear
The Diana Chronicles – Tina Brown
Song Without Words:The Photographs and Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy
Be Happy – Monica Sheehan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
Divisadero – Michael Ondaatje

Best older title read in 2007

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Revenant – Michael Punke
Dead in Vineyard Sand – Philip Craig
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Black Jewels Triology – Anne Bishop
A Venetian Affair – Andrea Di Robilant
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak