Salon's Best Books of the Year

Site picks top-fives in fiction and non-fiction
By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 12, 2007 5:30 PM CST
Salon 's Best Books of the Year
   (copyright Riverhead Books)

Salon chooses its favorite books of the year, looking to those it "propped up next to our bowls of breakfast cereal." The first five are fiction; the others non-fiction:

  • "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
  • "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra
  • "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris
  • "Tree of Smoke" by Denis Johnson

  • "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" by Michael Chabon
  • "The Father of All Things" by Tom Bissell
  • "Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations" by Georgina Howell
  • "Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
  • "The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved" by Judith Freeman
  • "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
(More literature stories.)

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