I was too busy this year to put together my annual Bloggers’ Favorite Books list (previous lists: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). But here’re some other round-ups that you might enjoy:
— “PW’s Best Books of the Year” — from the staff of Publishers Weekly.
— The New York Times’s “10 Best Books of 2007” and “A Year of Books Worth Curling Up With.”
— “Pick of the Bunch,” from The Economist.
— “Of War and Wharton, Starbucks and ‘Peanuts,'” from the Wall Street Journal.
— “The Best Books We Read In 2007,” from The Onion AV Club.
— Entertainment Weekly’s “The Best Books of 2007.”
— “Editors’ Picks: Top 100 Books,” from Amazon.com
— For further reading, I suggest this excellent best-of lists compendium at fimoculous.com.
— And finally, a useful tool for sharing your favorite books and getting recommendations from others is GoodReads.com, which is a sort of social networking site for avid readers.
2 replies on “Best Books of 2007”
Hi, Mike. The best book I read in 2007 was “Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden,” by Peter Bergen. It’s an incisive look at how bin Laden has built his network of terror .
NRP: How ’bout sharing a few of the books that YOU enjoyed in ’07? I can appreciate you not having the time to assemble the complete blogger list, but to lob a few titles our way can’t be that much of an imposition, can it? Even just your top three recommendations would be most appreciated indeed. Thanks much, my well-read friend. –MAW