Top of the List: 2007.
FEATURE.
First published January 1, 2008 (Booklist).
Every January, Booklist publishes Editors’ Choice: lists of the best books, databases, video/DVDs, and audiobooks of the past year. From these lists, we further select what we call the Top of the List: the single best title in eight categories—adult fiction, adult nonfiction, youth fiction, youth nonfiction, youth picture book, reference source, video/DVD, and audiobook.
Adult Fiction
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Falling Man. By Don DeLillo. Scribner, $26 (1-4165-4602-2).
Adult Nonfiction
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Edith Wharton. By Hermione Lee. Knopf, $35 (0-375-40004-4).
Youth Fiction
.jpg "Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis")
Elijah of Buxton. By Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic, $16.99 (0-439-02344-0).
Youth Nonfiction
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The Wall: Growing Up behind the Iron Curtain. By Peter Sis. Farrar/Frances Foster, $18 (0-374-34701-8).
Youth Picture Book
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Lightship. By Brian Floca. Atheneum, $16.99 (9781416924364).
Reference Source
ProQuest Historical Newspapers. [http://www.proquest.com].
Video & DVD
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The War. PBS, $129.99 (1-4157-2749-X).
Audio
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The Tin Roof Blowdown. By James Lee Burke. Read by Will Patton. Recorded Books, CD, $123.75 (9781428155855).