The best books of 2007(Financial Times)

The best books of 2007(Financial Times)Published: December 7 2007 22:01
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FICTION Compiled by Angel Gurria-Quintana
Divisadero
By Michael Ondaatje, Bloomsbury 288 pages 旧作に『イギリス人の患者』ISBN:4105328018 がある。

Divisadero

Divisadero


Lost City Radio
By Daniel Alarcon, Fourth Estate 336 pages
Lost City Radio

Lost City Radio

Measuring the World
By Daniel Kehlmann Translated by Carol Brown Janeway, Quercus 272 pages
Measuring the World: A Novel

Measuring the World: A Novel

Diary of a Bad Year
By J.M. Coetzee, Harvill Secker 240 pages
Diary of a Bad Year

Diary of a Bad Year

The Past
By Alan Pauls Translated by Nick Caistor, Harvill Secker 474 pages
The Past

The Past

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By Mohsin Hamid, Hamish Hamilton 224 pages
The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
Edited by Richard Ford, Granta 756 pages
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

The New Granta Book of the American Short Story

The Gathering
By Anne Enright, Jonathan Cape 272 pages
The Gathering

The Gathering

Blank Gaze
By Jose Luis Peixoto Translated by Richard Zenith, Bloomsbury 256 pages
Blank Gaze

Blank Gaze

No One Belongs Here More Than You
By Miranda July, Canongate 224 pages 短編集
No One Belongs Here More Than You

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Rhett Butler's People
By Donald McCaig, MacMillan 480 pages
Rhett Butler's People

Rhett Butler's People

The Archivist's Story
By Travis Holland, Bloomsbury 256 pages
The Archivist's Story

The Archivist's Story

Tree of Smoke
By Denis Johnson, Picador 614 pages
Tree of Smoke

Tree of Smoke

Afterwards
By Rachel Seiffert, Heinemann 336 pages 旧著『暗闇のなかで』レイチェル・シーファー著。
Afterwards

Afterwards

 
Afterwards: A Novel

Afterwards: A Novel

暗闇のなかで

暗闇のなかで

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
By Paul Torday, Phoenix 352 pages
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Day
By A.L. Kennedy, Jonathan Cape 279 pages
Day

Day

The Pesthouse
By Jim Crace, Picador 320 pages
The Pesthouse

The Pesthouse

Exit Ghost
By Philip Roth, Jonathan Cape 304 pages
Exit Ghost

Exit Ghost

Falling Man
By Don DeLillo, Picador 246 pages
Falling Man

Falling Man

Run
By Ann Patchett, Bloomsbury 295 pages 旧著は『ベル・カント』。
Run

Run

ベル・カント

ベル・カント

Montano
By Enrique Vila-Matas Translated by Jonathan Dunne, Harvill Secker 272 pages
Montano

Montano

A Thousand Splendid Suns
By Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury 384 pages
A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Life Class
By Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton 249 pages
Life Class: A Novel

Life Class: A Novel

The Dissident
By Nell Freudenberger, Picador 427 pages
The Dissident: A Novel (P.S.)

The Dissident: A Novel (P.S.)

Michael Tolliver Lives
By Armistead Maupin, Doubleday 277 pages
Michael Tolliver Lives

Michael Tolliver Lives

Nine Nights
By Bernardo Carvalho Translated by Benjamin Moser, Vintage 224 pages
Nine Nights

Nine Nights

Mister Pip
By Lloyd Jones, John Murray 223 pages
Mister Pip

Mister Pip

Shutterspeed
By Erwin Mortier Translated by Ina Rilke, Harvill Secker 208 pages
Shutter Speed

Shutter Speed

POETRY Compiled by Natalie Whittle
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
By Daljit Nagra, Faber 55 pages
A Worldly Country
By John Ashbery, Carcanet 96 pages
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 Translated, edited and introduced by Peter Cole, Princeton University Press 548 pages
Bird With a Broken Wing
By Adam Thorpe, Cape 64 pages
The Meanest Flower
By Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet 96 pages
The Drowned Book
By Sean O'Brien, Picador 80 pages
The Pomegranates of Kandhar
By Sarah Maguire, Chatto & Windus 80 pages
ART Compiled by Jackie Wullschlager
Klimt
Edited by Alfred Weidinger, Prestel 320 pages
The Society Portrait: Painting, Prestige and the Pursuit of Elegance
By Gabriel Badea-Paun, Thames & Hudson 223 pages
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
By Dorothy Kosinski, Jay Fisher and Steven Nash, Yale 296 pages
Louise Bourgeois
Edited by Frances Morris and Marie-Laure Bernadac, Tate 320 pages
Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography
By Todd Brandow and William Ewing, Thames & Hudson 335 pages
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-plate, 1839-1885
By Keith F. Davis, Yale 358 pages
Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection
By Maria Lafont, Prestel 286 pages
Vitebsk: The Life of Art
By Aleksandra Shatskikh, Yale 391 pages
Stained Glass: Masterpieces of the Modern Era
By Xavier Barral i Altet, Thames & Hudson 216 pages
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture by Writers
By Donald Friedman, Mid-List Press 457 pages
Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007
Edited by Julia Maciari Alexander and David Scrase, Yale 179 pages
The Great Naturalists: From Aristotle to Darwin
By Julia Brittain, edited by Robert Huxley, Thames & Hudson 304 pages
Horses
By Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Thames & Hudson 336 pages
God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
By Rosemary Hill, Penguin 602 pages
A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years 1917-1932
By John Richardson, Jonathan Cape 555 pages
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
By Janet Malcolm, Yale 227 pages
POLITICS & RELIGION Compiled by David Honigmann
Comrades: A World History of Communism
By Robert Service, Macmillan 624 pages
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
By Bryan Caplan, Princeton University Press 280 pages
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
By Brian Doherty, Public Affairs $35, 768 pages
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Souvenir 448 pages
God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the Modern World
By Walter Russell Mead, Atlantic 320 pages
More Time for Politics: Diaries, 2001-2007
By Tony Benn, Hutchinson 352 pages
The Blair Years
By Alastair Campbell, Hutchinson 816 pages
Dancing in the Street: A History of Collective Joy
By Barbara Ehrenreich, Granta 240 pages
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
By John Gray, Allen Lane 256 pages
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic 320 pages
The Bible: The Biography
By Karen Armstrong, Atlantic Books 302 pages
God's Own Country: Tales from the Bible Belt
By Stephen Bates, Hodder & Stoughton 388 pages
Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to 'ÄòThe God Delusion'
By John Cornwell, Profile Books 160 pages
The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad
By Tariq Ramadan, Allen Lane 256 pages
HISTORY Compiled by Christian Tyler
Thames: Sacred River
By Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus 490 pages
Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind
By Colin Renfrew, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 256 pages
Them and Us: The American Invasion of British High Society
By Charles Jennings, Sutton 318 pages
The Disinherited: The Exiles who Created Spanish Culture
By Henry Kamen, Allen Lane 524 pages
Napoleon in Egypt: The Greatest Glory
By Paul Strathern, Jonathan Cape 480 pages
City of the Sharp-nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt
By Peter Parsons, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 286 pages
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
By James Davidson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 650 pages
World war one: A Short History
By Norman Stone, Allen Lane 200 pages
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
By Eric D. Weitz, Princeton University Press 425 pages
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41
By Ian Kershaw, Allen Lane 648 pages
Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire
By Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Allen Lane 704 pages
State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945
By Michael Billington, Faber 435 pages
Worth the Detour: A History of the Guidebook
By Nicholas T. Parsons, Sutton 378 pages
A Little History of the English Country Church
By Roy Strong, Jonathan Cape 264 pages
The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I
By John Adamson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 764 pages
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire and Invasion
By Paddy Docherty, Faber & Faber 285 pages
FOOD Compiled by Ian Irvine
Moro East
By Sam & Sam Clark, Ebury Press 312 pages
Beyond Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking: Part II
By Fergus Henderson and Justin Piers Gellatly, Bloomsbury 225 pages
Citrus: A History
By Pierre Laszlo, Chicago University Press 239 pages
Pork & Sons
By Stephane Reynaud, Phaidon 368 pages
The Last Food of England: English Food: Its Past, Present and Future
By Marwood Yeatman, Ebury Press 488 pages
The River Cottage Fish Book
By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher, Bloomsbury 605 pages
Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life
By Jamie Oliver, Michael Joseph 407 pages
Let Me Eat Cake
By Paul Arnott, Sceptre 240 pages
TRAVEL Compiled by Ian Irvine
Travels with Herodotus
By Ryszard Kapuscinski, Allen Lane 288 pages
The Hill of Kronos
By Peter Levi, Eland Books, 258 pages
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
By Judith Martin, Norton 256 pages
The Snake Stone
By Jason Goodwin, Faber & Faber 320 pages
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
By Philip Marsden, Harper Press 404 pages
The Wild Places
By Robert Macfarlane, Granta Books 352 pages
The Ends of the Earth
Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford, Granta Books 288 pages
BUSINESS Compiled by Stefan Stern
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co
By William D. Cohan, Doubleday $29.95, 752 pages
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative
By Stephen Denning, Wiley 304 pages
The Halo Effect - and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers
By Phil Rosenzweig, Simon & Schuster 256 pages
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
By Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Little, Brown & Co $27.99, 352 pages
ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats Into Growth Breakthroughs
By Adrian Slywotzky, Crown Business $27.50, 288 pages
The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs

The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs

Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation, and Others Don't
By Lynda Gratton, FT/Prentice Hall 232 pages
Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy # and Others Don't

Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy # and Others Don't

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Allen Lane 366 pages
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
By Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Atlantic 408 pages
Wikinomics

Wikinomics

Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
By Philippe Legrain, Little, Brown 374 pages 今後重要な話になると思うのだが。
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan, Allen Lane 531 pages サブプライム問題の母(父?)。
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st Century Organization
By Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia L. Joyce, McGraw-Hill 300 pages
Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization

Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth
By Chris Zook, Harvard Business School Press 208 pages
Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth

Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth

The CEO Within: Why Inside-Outsiders are the Key to Succession Planning
By Joseph L. Bower, Harvard Business School Press 272 pages
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession

The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession

The Future of Management
By Gary Hamel, Harvard Business School Press 288 pages 本命。
The Future of Management

The Future of Management

The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream
By Kenneth and Will Hopper, I.B. Tauris, 352 pages
The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse And Revival Of An American Dream

The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse And Revival Of An American Dream

Five Minds for the Future
By Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Press 196 pages
Five Minds for the Future (Leadership for the Common Good)

Five Minds for the Future (Leadership for the Common Good)

SCIENCE Compiled by Clive Cookson
The Kiwi's Egg: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
By David Quammen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 286 pages
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
By Lee Smolin, Penguin Books 416 pages
A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
By J. Craig Venter, Allen Lane 390 pages
Avoid Boring People: and Other Lessons from a Life in Science
By James D. Watson, Oxford University Press 348 pages
Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest
By Gerard DeGroot, Jonathan Cape 320 pages
Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World
By Liza Mundy, Allen Lane 406 pages
Why Beauty is Truth: The History of Symmetry
By Ian Stewart, Basic Books 290 pages
SPORT Compiled by David Owen
Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Disaster
By Nick Ward and Sinead O'Brien, A&C Black 186 pages
My Manchester United Years: The Autobiography
By Sir Bobby Charlton with James Lawton, Headline 388 pages
Searching for Heroes: Fifty Years of Sporting Encounters
By Ian Wooldridge, Hodder & Stoughton 408 pages
Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
By Kevin Cook, HarperSport 356 pages
Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts
By Sid Waddell, Ebury Press 326 pages
A Very British Coop: Pigeon Racing from Blackpool to Sun City
By Mark Collings, Macmillan 247 pages
Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game
Edited by Cor van den Heuvel and Nanae Tamura, Norton 214 pages
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: TEENAGERS Compiled by James Lovegrove
Wilderness
By Roddy Doyle, Scholastic 220 pages
Burn My Heart
By Beverley Naidoo, Puffin 193 pages
Blood Red Snow White
By Marcus Sedgwick, Orion Books 278 pages
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror
By Chris Priestley, Bloomsbury 239 pages
Fearless
By Tim Lott, Walker Books 267 pages
The Medici Curse
By Matt Chamings, Faber 314 pages
River Song
By Belinda Hollyer, Orchard Books 201 pages
CHILDREN'S BOOKS: UNDER-10s Compiled by Neville Hawcock
The Picture History of Britain
By Clarke Hutton, Oxford University Press 62 pages
Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots
By Daren King, Faber & Faber 106 pages
Not a Box
By Antoinette Portis, HarperCollins 28 pages
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
By Chris Riddell, Macmillan 172 pages
Tyrannosaurus Drip
By Julia Donaldson and David Roberts, Macmillan 30 pages
George's Secret Key to the Unicerse
By Lucy and Stephen Hawking, Doubleday 304 pages
Little Neighbours of Sunnyside Street
By Jessica Spanyol, Walker Books 64 pages
MUSIC Compiled by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney
Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies
By Pamela Des Barres, Helter Skelter 384 pages
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
By Oliver Sacks, Picador 400 pages
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes
By Michael Gray, Bloomsbury 432 pages
Ronnie: The Autobiography
By Ronnie Wood, Pan Macmillan 358 pages
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography
By Eric Clapton, with Christopher Simon Sykes, Century 392 pages
My Bass and Other Animals
By Guy Pratt, Orion 293 pages
The Wagner Clan
By Jonathan Carr, Faber 384 pages
ARCHITECTURE Compiled by Edwin Heathcote
Architecture by Authority
By Richard Ross, Aperture 144 pages
The Architecture of Parking
By Simon Henley, Thames & Hudson 256 pages
From Agit Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
By Stanley Mathews, Black Dog 352 pages
Mapping London: Making Sense of the City
By Simon Foxell, Black Dog 288 pages
Churches
By David Spero, SteidlMack 144 pages
Papers 2
By Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates, Sergison Bates 163 pages
Without and Within
By Mark Pimlott, Episode 336 pages