2007 in literature

The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.

Events

 * November 19 – First Kindle e-book reader released.
 * December 11 – Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

Prose fiction

 * Gilbert Adair – A Mysterious Affair of Style
 * Louis Begley – Matters of Honor
 * Alan Bennett – The Uncommon Reader
 * Bob Burg and John D. Mann – The Go-Giver
 * Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen's Union
 * Bernard Cornwell – Sword Song
 * Jim Crace – The Pesthouse
 * Robert Crais – The Watchman
 * Don DeLillo – Falling Man
 * Junot Díaz – ''The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
 * Joshua Ferris – Then We Came to the End
 * Helon Habila – Measuring Time
 * Don Hannah – Ragged Islands
 * Elizabeth Hay – Late Nights on Air
 * Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
 * Denis Johnson – Tree of Smoke
 * Panos Karnezis – The Birthday Party
 * Jesse Lee Kercheval – The Alice Stories
 * Min Jin Lee – Free Food for Millionaires
 * Ian McEwan – On Chesil Beach
 * Michael Ondaatje – Divisadero
 * Graham Swift – Tomorrow
 * M. G. Vassanji – The Assassin's Song
 * Kirby Wright – Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle
 * Juli Zeh – Dark Matter

Children's and young adult fiction

 * Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
 * Libba Bray – The Sweet Far Thing
 * Suzanne Collins – Gregor and the Code of Claw (fifth and final book in the Underland Chronicles)
 * Charlie Higson
 * Double or Die (third book in the Young Bond series)
 * Hurricane Gold (fourth book in the Young Bond series)
 * D. J. MacHale – The Pilgrims of Rayne
 * Stephenie Meyer – Eclipse
 * China Miéville – Un Lun Dun
 * Robert Muchamore
 * The Fall (seventh book in the CHERUB series)
 * Mad Dogs (eighth book in the CHERUB series)
 * Garth Nix – Lady Friday (fifth book in the Keys to the Kingdom series)
 * J. K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (July 21) (final book in the Harry Potter series)
 * Hikaru Sugii – Heaven's Memo Pad
 * N. D. Wilson – 100 Cupboards (first book in the 100 Cupboards series)

Science fiction and fantasy

 * Joe Abercrombie – Before They Are Hanged (March 15) (second of The First Law series)
 * Christopher Barzak – One For Sorrow (August 28)
 * Jim Butcher – White Night (April 3) (Harry Dresden #9)
 * Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policemen's Union (May 1)
 * Hal Duncan – Ink (February 2) (second of The Book of All Hours)
 * Warren Ellis – Crooked Little Vein (July 24)
 * Steven Erikson – Reaper's Gale (April 24) (seventh in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series)
 * William Gibson – Spook Country (August 7)
 * Ed Greenwood – Dark Lord (September) (First book in the Falconfar series)
 * Tanith Lee – Piratica III: The Family Sea (third in The Piratica Series)
 * Scott Lynch – Red Seas Under Red Skies (July 31) (second in the Gentleman Bastard series)
 * Richard K. Morgan – Th1rte3n (June 26)
 * Ian McDonald – Brasyl (May 1)
 * Chuck Palahniuk – Rant: An Oral History of Buster Casey (May 1)
 * Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – The Wheel of Darkness
 * Lucius Shepard – Softspoken (April 15)
 * Jeffrey Thomas – Deadstock (February 27)
 * Catherynne M. Valente – The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice (October 30) (second in the Orphan's Tales series)

New drama

 * Hassan Abdulrazzak – Baghdad Wedding
 * Bola Agbaje – Gone Too Far!
 * Jacob M. Appel – The Mistress of Wholesome
 * Melissa James Gibson – Current Nobody
 * David Henry Hwang – Yellow Face
 * Caleb Lewis – Dogfall
 * Brendan O'Carroll – For the Love of Mrs. Brown
 * Aaron Sorkin – The Farnsworth Invention

Poetry

 * Dejan Stojanović, Ples vremena (Dance of Time), Konras, Beograd

Non-fiction and biography

 * Peter Ackroyd – Thames: Sacred River
 * Andrea Cagan – Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
 * Wayne Federman, Marshall Terrill and Jackie Maravich – Maravich: The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich
 * David Halberstam – The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
 * Ian Halperin – Hollywood Undercover
 * A. J. Jacobs – The Year of Living Biblically
 * Linda and Terry Jamison – Separated at Earth (2007)
 * Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine
 * David McMillan – Escape
 * John Matteson – Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father
 * The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (September 2007)

Deaths

 * Margaret Avison (born 1918)
 * Michael Dibdin (born 1947)
 * Douglas Hill (born 1935)
 * Robert Jordan (born 1948)
 * Ryszard Kapuscinski (born 1932)
 * Madeleine L'Engle (born 1918)
 * Ira Levin (born 1929)
 * Norman Mailer (born 1923)
 * Herbert Reinecker (born 1914)
 * Jane Rule (born 1931)
 * Sidney Sheldon (born 1917)
 * Magda Szabó (born 1917)
 * Dragutin Tadijanović (born 1905)
 * Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922)

Australia

 * Patrick White Award: David Rowbotham
 * ALS Gold Medal: Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
 * Miles Franklin Award: Carpentaria, Alexis Wright

Canada

 * Canada Reads: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
 * Le Combat des livres: Denis Thériault, L'Iguane
 * Scotiabank Giller Prize: Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
 * 2007 Governor General's Awards

United Kingdom

 * Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Meg Rosoff, Just in Case
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt
 * James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
 * Man Booker Prize: Anne Enright, The Gathering

United States

 * Compton Crook Award: Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
 * Whiting Writers' Awards:
 * Poetry: Paul Guest, Cate Marvin
 * Fiction: Ben Fountain, Brad Kessler, Dalia Sofer, Nina Marie Martínez, Patrick O’Keeffe
 * Plays: Sheila Callaghan, Tarell Alvin McCraney
 * Nonfiction: Carlo Rotella, Peter Trachtenberg, Jack Turner