New Zealand Listener’s best books of 2007
The December 8 2007 issue of the New Zealand Listener has a special feature on the best books, CDs and DVDs of 2007.
Their reviewers’ picks for best books:
- Novels
- Short stories
- Young adult
- Essays / Music / Travel
- History
- Politics / Journalism
- Memoirs / Letters
- Biography
- Science
- Cookbooks
Novels
The Amalgamation Polka- Stephen Wright
- Animals
- Keith Ridgway
- Arlington Park
- Rachel Cusk
- The Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
- Junot Diaz
- Consequences
- Penelope Lively
- Darkmans
- Nicola Barker
- Death of a murderer
- Rupert Thomson
The Delivery Room- Sylvia Brownrigg
- Divisadero
- Michael Ondaatje
- Dreamquake
- Elizabeth Knox
- Edwin + Matilda
- Lawrence Fearnley
- Exit Ghost
- Philip Roth
- Falling Man
- Don DeLillo
- Imposture
- Benjamin Markovits
Lies- Enrique de Hertiz
- The Lost dog
- Michelle de Kretser
- Miss me a lot of
- Louise Wareham Leonard
- The Mistress's daughter
- A M Homes
- The Night watch
- Sarah Waters
- On Chesil Beach
- Ian McEwan
- The Rain before it falls
- Jonathon Coe
The Road home- Rose Tremain
- Restless
- William Boyd
- Run
- Ann Patchett
- A Thousand splendid suns
- Khaled Hosseini
- The Totem hole
- Paul Shannon
- What is the what
- Dave Eggers
- Your face tomorrow 2: Dance and dream
- Javier Marias
Short stories
- Cheating at Canasta
- William Trevor
- Coming up roses
- Sarah Laing
- Luminous
- Alice Tawhai
- The Secrets of a fire king
- Kim Edwards
Young Adult
- Before I die
- Jenny Downham
The Transformation of Minna Hargreaves- Fleur Beale
- Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
- J. K. Rowling
Poetry
- The Great Modern Poets: An Anthology of the Best Poets and Poetry since 1900
- Michael Schmidt
- Laughing Mirror
- Douglas Wright
- The Ponies
- Bernadette Hall
The Pop-up book of invasions- Fiona Farrell
- Sol
- Andrew Johnston
- The Year of Adverbs
- Elizabeth Smithers
Essays / Music / Travel
- Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays
- Inga Clendinnen
- The Curtain
- Milan Kundera
- Dylan Redeemed
- Stephen H. Webb
- An Elemental thing
- Eliot Weinberger
- How Life imitates chess
- Garry Kasparov
- How the Irish invented slang
- Daniel Cassidy
How to catch a cricket match- Harry Ricketts
- How to watch a bird
- Steve Braunias
- Luca Antara
- Martin Edmond
- The Paris Review interviews - volume 1
- introduced by Philip Gourevitch
- Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution
- Caroline Weber
- Searching for Schindler
- Tom Keneally
- Soundtrack: 118 Great New Zealand albums
- Grant Smithies
- Travels with Herodotus
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
History
- Dark Journey: Three key New Zealand battles of the Western Front
- Glyn Harper
- The Lost - A Search for six of six million
- Daniel Mendelsohn
- Shakespeare's Wife
- Germaine Greer
Politics / Journalism
- Globalisation and the wealth of nations
- Brian Easton
- Imperial life in the Emerald City
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
In Europe: Travels throught the Twentieth Century- Geert Mak
- In the blood - A memoir of my childhood
- Andrew Motion
- Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within
- Melanie Phillips
- No left turn
- Chris Trotter
Memoirs / Letters
- Peeling the onion
- Gunther Grass
Notebooks by Tennessee Williams- edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton
- The Letters of Martha Gellhorn
- selected and edited by Caroline Moorehead
- When a crocodile eats the sun
- Peter Godwin
Biography
- The Best man who ever served the Crown? - A Life of Donald McLean
- Ray Fargher
- Daughter of the desert
- Georgina Howell
- The Sixth man
- James MacNeish
Young Stalin- Simon Sebag Montefiore
Science
- The Never-ending days of being dead
- Marcus Chown
- The Transit of Venus
- published by Awa Press
- Unstrange minds: Remapping the world of autism
- Roy Richard Grinker
Cookbooks
- Chocolate and Zucchini
- Clotilde Dusoulier
- Jamie at home
- Jamie Oliver
