Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2007

I should have campaigned earlier for John Crowley's Aegypt books, now I feel compelled to vote for Endless Things (the 4th and last) over Flights by Olga Tokarczuk and Half Of A Yellow Sun.

Genocidal Organ looks intriguing

I have Darkmans at home and have read about 70 pages. Based on them it's going to be amazing but I can't vote for something I've read less than 1/10 of

Yiddish Policemen's Union, because I like alt-history etc. police procedurals/gumshoes and this is a good'un, w some research and invention and settings, also it's the only one I've read.

I'm striking out here again. The only 2007 novel that it seems I have read is "The Shack" by William P. Young. Not usually my thing but curiosity got the better of me, and it was bizarre enough to be interesting. Originally self-published, it went on to sit atop the fiction bestseller list for a couple of years and has sold upwards of 10 million copies. Father whose daughter was brutally murdered and is suffering from depression years later decides to spend a weekend in the remote forest shack where her remains were discovered, and there communes with G*d in the form of an African American woman.

Yiddish Policemen's Union I read twice, because I thought it would be interesting to revisit it after living in Sitka, and I still don't really remember anything about it. I didn't think it was bad, but it refuses to stick in my memory.

Truly light reading. Would like more about the island of Hasids & their boss (in The Sopranos sense).

Zero.

Tree of Smoke, even though it's not one of my favorites of his.

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A lot of authors I like here, but not a single book I've read except Oscar Wao, which is fine but not good enough for me to vote for against unknown competition.

Yeah, I liked Drown, but thought the novel was too stereotypical, predictable.

oh i truly and deeply love divisadero, glad i scanned the titles again and picked it out this time

Oh wait, Mischa Berlinski's "Fieldwork" was a 2007 novel? I would've voted for that.

Stephen King liked it: https://ew.com/article/2007/04/15/letting-fieldwork-go-waste/

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Great winner imo, tho I should go back & finish flights one of these days; but I remember just devouring the vegetarian (or vice versa). Bleak as hell tho. Curious if the film works at all

Not many voters!

Will there be a 2008 poll?

yes sorry, combination of a lot of work and very dodgy wifi - hopefully later today

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2008