best books of 2007

These are the best books I read in 2007--not necessarily published in 2007. Also, they're not in any order (except, I think, the order I happened to read them in). I tried to keep the list relatively short--I managed to get it down to 15, & given that I read 219 books in 2007, that's not bad!

Links are to my reviews.

Zahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
The Green Glass Sea - Ellen Klages
Story of a Girl - Sara Zarr
Behold the Many - Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Does My Head Look Big in This? - Randa Abdel-Fattah
Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation - Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
Kitty Takes a Holiday - Carrie Vaughn
The Emotional Lives of Animals - Marc Bekoff
Heads by Harry - Lois-Ann Yamanaka (yes, two by Yamanaka... sue me)
The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind - Ken Foster
The Secret History of Moscow - Ekaterina Sedia
Crystal Rain - Tobias Buckell
The Sons of Heaven - Kage Baker
Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America - Nathan J. Winograd
Talking to the Moon - Noel Alumit
One Tribe - M. Evelina Galang