3 Favorite Books of 2007 - Part 2

Read this post to see what this is all about. For more favorites, see here.

George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener

• Willy Vlautin - Northline (pub. date 2008). The second novel from Richmond Fontaine's bandleader is a stunner.
• Don Carpenter - Hard Rain Falling. Long out of print, a lost American classic. Get it any way you can.
• Richard Lange - Dead Boys. The best short story collection I've read in years. Lange's voice is singular and earned.

Ken Bruen, author of Priest

• Craig McDonald - Head Games
• Megan Abbot - Queenpin
• Duane Swierczynski - The Blonde

Hallie Ephron, Crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston Globe and author of Writing & Selling Your Mystery Novel

• Leonie Swann - Three Bags Full
• Donald Westlake - What's So Funny?
• William Landay - The Strangler

Keith Kahla, Senior Editor at St. Martin's Press

• Joe R. Lansdale - Lost Echoes. You don't have to have roots in East Texas to love Lansdale's writing, but it sure doesn't hurt.
• Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo (trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden). I read the earlier translation twenty five years ago and have been meaning to read this newer one for more than a decade. It's brilliant by the way.
• Colin Cotterill - Anarchy and Old Dogs. Could be any of the books in this series but this is the one I read most recently.

Steve Brewer, author of Cutthroat

• Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule. Probably the most memorable book I've read this year
• Olen Steinhauer - Victory Square. Fifth and final book in his incredible Eastern Europe series. I've read them all
• John Ridley - The Drift. A gritty 2002 novel about a deranged railroad bum who pulls himself together long enough to hunt for a missing girl. Unforgettable.

Comments

[Hallie Ephron]

Completely fascinating, David -- it's as if we all live in alternate universes. I wonder if every year there's so little overlap among the lists.
- Hallie Ephron

[David J. Montgomery]

Looking over the responses that have come in so far, there are only a couple of books that have been cited more than once.