This year’s crop of books took readers on a wild ride.
Clarence Thomas told his life story and found controversy. Debut novelist Junot Diaz struck gold with “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” There was a gritty look at Baghdad’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. More magic came from “The Kite Runner’s Khaled Hosseini. Michael Thomas debuted with a novel that gets compared to “Invisible Man,” while Denis Johnson landed us back in Vietnam. Jeffrey Toobin pulled back the curtain on the Supreme Court’s inner sanctum, as Alex Ross turned 20th-century “Noise” into musical prose.
As the holidays approach, it is time to talk about the best books of the year: the critics’ choices, the blockbusters, the surprise gems, the page turners, and the guilty pleasures that are just plain fun to read.
Listen to an On Point conversation with two book critics and an independent bookseller about their choices for the best books of 2007 (a complete list of their picks is also available on the On Point site).
What book stood out from the pack for you this year? What’s not on the critics’ lists that’s on yours?
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