3 Favorite Books of 2007 - The final tally

Sixty-eight authors, editors, agents and critics responded to this year's poll, producing a diversity of favorite books that was quite impressive. The majority of the 200+ selections were unique, with only a handful showing up on more than one person's list.

Here are those books that did appear multiple times:

7 picks:

• James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown

5 picks:

• Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know

4 picks:

• Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble
• Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule

3 picks:

• Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union (plus 1 pick for The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay)
• John Connolly - The Unquiet (plus 1 pick for Bad Men)
• Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
• Cormac McCarthy - The Road

2 picks:

• Linwood Barclay - No Time For Goodbye
• Elise Blackwell - Grub
• Toni McGee Causey - Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day
• Colin Cotterill - Anarchy and Old Dogs
• Robert Crais - The Watchman (plus 1 pick for L.A. Requiem)
• Judith Freeman - The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
• Al Guthrie - Hard Man
• Robert Harris - The Ghost
• Craig McDonald - Head Games
• Marcus Sakey - The Blade Itself
• Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
• Peter Spiegelman - Red Cat

There was also more than 1 pick for:

• Ken Bruen: 1 pick for Priest and 1 for Blitz
• Joseph Finder: 1 pick for Power Play and 1 for Killer Instinct
• Joe Hill: 1 pick for 20th Century Ghosts and 1 for Heart-Shaped Box
• Donald E. Westlake: 1 pick for The Mercenaries and 1 for What's So Funny?
• Daniel Woodrell: 1 pick for Winter's Bone and 1 for Tomato Red

Thanks to everyone for playing! We'll probably do it again next year.