The Best So Far

Amazon has released their list of best-selling books year-to-date. Shop a few of their top picks so far in 2007:

Fiction

“The Savage Detectives: A Novel” by Roberto Bolano
“The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel” by Michael Chabon
“Sacred Games: A Novel” by Vikram Chandra
“Falling Man: A Novel” by Don DeLillo
“Then We Came to the End: A Novel” by Joshua Ferris
“In the Woods” by Tana French
“A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
“No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories” by Miranda July
“The God of Animals: A Novel” by Aryn Kyle
“The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears” by Dinaw Mengestu

NonFiction

“A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah
“Stealing Lincoln’s Body” by Thomas J. Craughwell
“The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857” by William Dalrymple
“Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court” by Jan Crawford Greenburg
“Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver
“Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See” by Robert Kurson
“Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home” by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe

Kids and Teens

“Dragon Slippers” by Jessica Day George
“The Secret Life of Walter Kitty” by Barbara Jean Hicks and Dan Santat
“The Dangerous Book for Boys” by Conn and Hal Iggulden
“The Incredible Book-Eating Boy” by Oliver Jeffers
“Evil Genius” by Catherine Jinks
“Wicked Lovely” by Melissa Marr
“17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore” by Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter

Hidden Gems

“Cat Getting Out of a Bag and Other Observations” by Jeffrey Brown
“Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths” by Timothy Butler
“Patterns Of The Earth” by Bernhard Edmaier
“The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)” by Patrick Rothfuss