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The New York Times has actually included a Norwegian novel among their top 5 fiction books: Per Petterson's Out stealing horses. They also list Man gone down by the young(ish) american author Michael Thomas and a translation of the late Robert Bolaño's 1998-novel, The Savage detectives.
(Source: The 10 Best Books of 2007)
The Observer presents a list of what various cultural figures in Britain enjoyed reading the last year. We learn that Margaret Drabble's favourite book this year was Hermione Lee's biography, Edith Wharton. Michael Ondaatje reccomends JM Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg, and British actor/producer/comedian Charlie Higson is not afraid to go mainstream, proclaiming Harry Potter and the deathly hallows to be the best book this year.
Read the article:That's the best thing we've read all year, part 1 and part 2.
If you have your own list, why not send it to me, and I might use it in the January edition of this page: Mariann.lokse@ub.uit.no
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