Best Superlatives of 2007

Best Fiction I Read in 2007
Min-Jin Lee, FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES
Tom McCarthy, REMAINDER
Paullina Simons, THE GIRL IN TIMES SQUARE
Dawn Powell, THE LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING
Michael Chabon, THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN'S UNION
Critic choice: Thomas Mallon, FELLOW TRAVELERS

Best Nonfiction I Read in 2007
Francine du Plessix Gray, THEM: A MEMOIR OF PARENTS
Sean Wilsey, OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL
Rob Sheffield, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE
Buzz Bissinger, A PRAYER FOR THE CITY

Best Page Turners Of 2007
Stephanie Klein, STRAIGHT UP AND DIRTY
Jen Lancaster, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG ASS
Cormac McCarthy, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Critical choice: Yannick Murphy, SIGNED, MATA HARI

Best books about New York City
Gail Parent, SHEILA LEVINE IS DEAD AND LIVING IN NEW YORK
Cheryl Mendelson, LOVE, WORK, CHILDREN
Dawn Powell, A TIME TO BE BORN

Best discovery of 2007
Dawn Powell, where have you been all my life?!

Most depressing reads of 2007
Patricia Marx, HIM HER HIM AGAIN THE END OF HIM
Mary Childers, WELFARE BRAT (entry here)
Critical choice: Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley, RESTLESS VIRGINS

Modern Library of Awesome
James M. Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (entry here)
Booth Tarkington, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

A book for conspiracy theor...hey, who's at the...
Alexandra Robbins, SECRETS OF THE TOMB (entry here)

Why did I finish this?
Seth Margolis, CLOSING COSTS (entry here)
Louis Bagley, MATTERS OF HONOR
Cecily von Ziegesar, THE IT GIRL

Saddest series ending
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Series that probably should have ended a few books ago
Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl series.

Most overrated books
Joshua Ferris, THEN WE CAME TO THE END (entry here)
Dana Vachon, MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Jessica Cutler, THE WASHINGTONIENNE

Most underrated books
Jeannette Walls, THE GLASS CASTLE
Sally Koslow, LITTLE PINK SLIPS
Rachel Kadish, TOLSTOY LIED: A LOVE STORY
Cornelia Read, A FIELD OF DARKNESS

Rated exactly where it belongs, actually
Cormac McCarthy, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN