The Year's Best Books: Our Critic's Picks

Fresh Air | By Maureen Corrigan

Published December 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM EST

Fresh Air's book critic looks back at a busy year and selects the books that linger in memory as the calendar page turns.

Her favorite fiction:

Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs
Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires
Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster
Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer
Salley Vickers' The Other Side of You
Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
Fred Vargas' Wash This Blood from My Hands
Ann Patchett's Run
Philip Roth's Exit Ghost

Nonfiction picks:

A.M Homes' The Mistress' Daughter
Clare Tomalin's Thomas Hardy
Arnold Rampersad's Ralph Ellison: A Biography

Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan is a book critic for Fresh Air.

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