3 Favorite Books of 2007 - Part 6

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

Laura Lippman, author of What the Dead Know

• Richard Price - Lush Life (pub date 2008). I was lucky enough to read an ARE.
• Abigail Thomas - A Three Dog Life. Purchased on impulse in Kennedy Airport, on the basis of a Stephen King blurb. A section of this memoir had been excerpted in the New York Times' Modern Romance column, which is always being ridiculed at Gawker.com, and I was curious to see a book-length treatment of a story I thought had been told, more or less. Outstanding.
• Jack Pendarvis - The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure. I have flogged this book so relentlessly for much of 2007 that all I say is, "Why stop now?"

Gregg Hurwitz, author of The Crime Writer

• John Burdett - Bangkok 8
• Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
• Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue

Patrick Anderson, reviewer for The Washington Post

• Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule
• Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know
• James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown

Dave White, author of When One Man Dies

• Jason Pinter - The Guilty (pub date 2008). Just a book that kept me turning the pages the whole way through. Really great pace, really great premise.
• Duane Swierczynski - Severance Package (pub date 2008). A action packed roller coaster. One of my favorite books of all time. Period. I am truly lucky to have read this book early.
• Robert Crais - The Watchman. Just getting to see Pike on the center stage was well worth it. Fun read.

Ben Leroy, Publisher of Bleak House Books

• J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
• Mikal Gilmore - Shot in the Heart
• Sebastian Junger - The Perfect Storm