SO, WHAT'S BREWING IN 2007?

YOU CAN NEVER have too many books. These are just some of the thumping good reads we can look forward to in 2007.

Novels
The Virgin of Flames / Chris Abani
Goodbye Lucille / Segun Afolabi
The Yacoubian Building / Alaa al Aswany
Lost City Radio / Daniel Alarcón
Darkmans / Nicola Barker
Matters of Honor / Louis Begley
The Father of All Things / Tom Bissell
The Communist’s Daughter / Dennis Bock
The Double Bind / Chris Bohjalian
Self Storage / Gayle Brandeis
The Rope Walk / Carrie Brown
The Devil’s Footprints / John Burnside
The Song Before It Is Sung / Justin Cartwright
Burning Bright / Tracy Chevalier
The Nature of Monsters / Clare Clark
Brother Fish / Bryce Courtenay
The Pesthouse / Jim Crace
The Eyrie / Stevie Davies
Falling Man / Don DeLillo
The Pleasure Seekers / Tishani Doshi
The Gathering / Anne Enright
The Color of a Dog Running Away / Richard Gwyn
A Free Life / Ha Jin
Engelby / Sebastian Faulks
Oystercatchers / Susan Fletcher
World Without End / Ken Follett
Over / Margaret Forster
Runt / Niall Griffiths
Measuring Time / Helon Habila
A Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Mohsin Hamid
North River / Pete Hamill
The Lollipop Shoes / Joanne Harris
Skylight Confessions / Alice Hoffman
Fireproof / Raj Kamal Jha
The Birthday Party / Panos Karnezis
Sure and Steadfast / James Kelman
The Widow and Her Hero / Thomas Keneally
The Woman in the Fifth / Douglas Kennedy
Glover’s Mistake / Nick Laird
You Don’t Love Me Yet / Jonathan Lethem
Two Caravans / Marina Lewycka
The Devil’s Company / David Liss
Hospital / Toby Litt
The Castle in the Forest / Norman Mailer
Imposture / Benjamin Markovits
A Far Country / Daniel Mason
On Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan
Traveler / Ron McLarty
When the Light Goes / Larry McMurtry
When We Were Bad / Charlotte Mendelson
Landscape of Farewell / Alex Miller
South of the River / Blake Morrison
Mercy / Toni Morrison
The Condor’s Head / Ferdinand Mount
The Gravedigger’s Daughter / Joyce Carol Oates
Starbook / Ben Okri
Divisadero / Michael Ondaatje
The Museum of Innocence / Orhan Pamuk
Anderson Depot / Jay Parini
The Sun Over Breda / Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Consolation / Michael Redhill
Exit Ghost / Philip Roth
Angelica / Arthur Phillips
The New Yorkers / Cathleen Schine
Afterwards / Rachel Seiffert
The Bastard of Istanbul / Elif Shafak
Resistance / Owen Sheers
The Post-Birthday World / Lionel Shriver
The Visible World / Mark Slouka
Ten Days in the Hills / Jane Smiley
China Dreams / Sid Smith
By George / Wesley Stace
Untitled / Thomas Steinbeck
Tomorrow / Graham Swift
Red River / Lalita Tademy
The Amnesiac / Sam Taylor
The Cold World / Paul Theroux
Death of a Murderer / Rupert Thomson
Between Each Breath / Adam Thorpe
The Road Home / Rose Tremain
If Today Be Sweet / Thrity Umrigar
Seizure / Erica Wagner
A Curious Earth / Gerard Woodward

First Fiction
A Golden Age / Tahmima Anam
FireWife: A Story of Fire and Water / Tinling Choong
Still Water Saints / Alex Espinoza
Bitter Sweets / Roopa Farooki
According to Ruth / Jane Feaver
The Welsh Girl / Peter Ho Davies
Wintering / Derek Johns
The Peacock Throne / Sujit Saraf
The Gift of Rain / Tan Twan Eng

Stories
Missing Kissinger / Etgar Keret
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense / Joyce Carol Oates
No Rest for the Middleman / Edward Schwarzschild
The Almost Moon / Alice Sebold
I Think of You /Ahdaf Soueif

Poetry
The Door / Margaret Atwood
Collected Poems / W.H. Auden (ed. Edward Mendelson)
Domestic Violence / Eavan Boland
Gift Songs / John Burnside
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems / W.S. Di Piero
Waterlight: Selected Poems / Kathleen Jamie
Typewriter Music / David Malouf
Collected Poems / Louis McNiece (ed. Peter McDonald)
A Book of Lives / Edwin Morgan
Poems: New and Selected (1965-2006) / David Shapiro
Captivity / Laurie Sheck
Birds with a Broken Wing / Adam Thorpe
Selected Poems / Derek Walcott (ed. Edward Baugh)

Nonfiction
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey / James Attlee
Toussaint Louverture / Madison Smartt Bell
Dog Years / Mark Doty
India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy / Ramachandra Guha
The Mistress’s Daughter / A.M. Homes
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts / Clive James
Family Romance / John Lanchester
Spain in Mind / Alice Leccese Powers (ed.)
Edith Wharton / Hermione Lee
Room for Doubt / Wendy Lesser
The River Queen / Mary Morris
This Year You Write Your Novel / Walter Mosley
In My Father’s House / Miranda Seymour
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties / Robert Stone