2007 IN LITERATURE

The year '2007 in literature' involves some significant new books.

Contents

Events

Books

Literature

Children's and Young Adult fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Biographies

Awards and honors

Deaths

See also

Events

★ ''None at present

Books

Literature

★ ''Ragged Islands'' by Don Hannah

★ ''A Thousand Splendid Suns'' (May 22), by Khaled Hosseini

★ ''Falling Man'' (May 15), by Don DeLillo

★ ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union'' (May 1), by Michael Chabon

★ ''On Chesil Beach'' (June), by Ian McEwan

★ ''Then We Came to the End'' by Joshua Ferris

★ ''Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle'' by Kirby Wright

★ ''Tomorrow'' by Graham Swift

Children's and Young Adult fiction

★ ''Gregor and the Code of Claw'', by Suzanne Collins (fifth and final book in the Underland Chronicles)

★ ''Double or Die'', by Charlie Higson (third book in the Young Bond series)

★ ''The Sweet Far Thing'' by Libba Bray

★ ''Hurricane Gold'', by Charlie Higson (fourth book in the Young Bond series)

★ ''The Pilgrims of Rayne'', by D.J. MacHale

★ ''Un Lun Dun'', by China Miéville

★ ''Lady Friday'', by Garth Nix (fifth book in the Keys to the Kingdom series)

Science Fiction and Fantasy

★ ''Before They Are Hanged'' (March 15), by Joe Abercrombie (second of The First Law series)

★ ''Brasyl'' (May 1), by Ian McDonald

★ ''Crooked Little Vein'' (July 24), by Warren Ellis

★ ''Deadstock'' (February 27), by Jeffrey Thomas

★ ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' (July 21), by J. K. Rowling (final book in the Harry Potter series)

★ The final book in the Inheritance trilogy, by Christopher Paolini (Inheritance #3)

★ ''Ink'' (February 2), by Hal Duncan (second of The Book of All Hours)

★ ''In the Cities of Coin and Spice'' (October 30), by Catherynne M. Valente (second in the Orphan's Tales series)

★ ''One For Sorrow'' (August 28), by Christopher Barzak

★ '' (May 1), by Chuck Palahniuk

★ ''Reaper's Gale'' (April 24), by Steven Erikson (seventh in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)

★ ''Red Seas Under Red Skies'' (July 31), by Scott Lynch (second in the Gentleman Bastard series)

★ Softspoken (April 15), by Lucius Shepard

★ ''Spook Country'' (August 7), by William Gibson

★ ''Th1rte3n'' (June 26), by Richard K. Morgan

★ ''Unleashing Janus'' by Ted David Harris

★ ''White Night'' (April 3), by Jim Butcher (Harry Dresden #9)

★ ''The Yiddish Policemen's Union'' (May 1), by Michael Chabon

New drama

Poetry

''See '2007 in poetry'''

Non-fiction

★ ''The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales'' (September 2007)

★ ''The Art of Teaching: What You Didn't Learn in College'' by Richard Burzynski

★ ''Thames: Sacred River'' by Peter Ackroyd

Biographies

★ ''Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat'', Mighty River Press (2007), ISBN 978-0978869496


★ ''Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography''

★ ''MARAVICH'' (The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich), Sports Media Publishing (2007), ISBN 1-894963-52-0

★ ''ESCAPE'' autobiographical book telling of the only Western prisoner to have escaped from the ‘Bangkok Hilton’. In the mid 1990s, David McMillan broke out of Thailand’s Klong Prem prison and fled to Singapore undetected and Pakistan before reaching Europe. First published in Asia 2007.ISBN 9789810575687 Monsoon Books

Awards and honors

★ ''Canada Reads'' - Heather O'Neill, ''Lullabies for Little Criminals''

★ ''Le Combat des livres'' - Denis Thériault, ''L'Iguane''

Deaths

★ ''Sidney Sheldon'' (b. 1917)

★ ''Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'' (b. 1922)

★ ''Madeleine L'Engle '' (b. 1918)

See also

★ Literature

★ List of literary awards

★ List of years in poetry

★ Poetry

★ List of poetry awards