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The year 2007 in literature involves some significant new books.

1 Events
2 Books
3 Awards and honors
4 Deaths
5 See also

Events

December 11 - Terry Pratchett informs fans on-line that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

Books

Literature

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
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
Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
Francis Malka - Le jardinier de monsieur Chaos
Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero
Graham Swift - Tomorrow
M. G. Vassanji - The Assassin's Song
Kirby Wright - Moloka'i Nui Ahina, Summers on the Lonely Isle
Jesse Lee Kercheval - The Alice Stories

Children's and young adult fiction

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
China Miéville - Un Lun Dun
Robert Muchamore
- The Fall (Robert Muchamore novel) (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)

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 Seas (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 - Yellowface
Caleb Lewis - Dogfall
Brendan O'Carroll - For the Love of Mrs. Brown
Aaron Sorkin - The Farnsworth Invention

Poetry

Main article: 2007 in poetry

Non-fiction and biography

Peter Ackroyd - Thames: Sacred River
Andrea Cagan - Peace Is Possible: The Life and Message of Prem Rawat
David Halberstam - The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
Ian Halperin - Hollywood Undercover
A.J. Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically
David McMillan - ESCAPE
MARAVICH (The Definitive Biography of Pistol Pete Maravich)
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (September 2007)

Awards and honors

Australia

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 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

United Kingdom

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

Deaths

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

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