Elizabeth Hand -- Best Literature Picks of 2007

My 2007 faves:

The Children of Hurin, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling

ABC, by David Plante,

The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction, by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami, translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Endless Things, by John Crowley

Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher, and the Other Players in His Story, by Stanley Wells (2006)

First time classic: The Box of Delights, by John Masefield