2007 in literature

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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.

Books

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

Main article: 2007 in 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)

Awards and honors

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

See also

• List of literary awards
• List of poetry awards
• 2007 in Australian literature
• 2007 in comics