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THESE are the 10 Best Books of 2007, according to the leading arbiter of literary taste, The New York Times Book Review.

Fiction
1. Man Gone Down (Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic) / Michael Thomas
2. Out Stealing Horses (Graywolf Press) / Per Petterson (trans. Anne Born)
3. The Savage Detectives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) / Roberto Bolaño (trans. Natasha Wimmer)
4. Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company) / Joshua Ferris
5. Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) / Denis Johnson

Nonfiction
1. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Alfred A. Knopf) / Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2. Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression (Bantam Books) / Mildred Armstrong Kalish
3. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday) / Jeffrey Toobin
4. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (Pantheon Books) / Linda Colley
5. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) / Alex Ross