Salon.com's Favorite Fiction of 2007

Another Pulitzer Prize winner. An intricate family history that goes from the present to the past and from New Jersey to the Dominican Republic while weaving historical facts in between.

A real in-depth novel that paints a vivid picture of the rise and fall of a character whose dreams and paranoia are too big for his reality.

Although on the long side, Chandra uses beautiful imagery to immerse the reader deeply into a very violent crime underworld that spans most of Asia, and parts of the globe.

An excellent read, and well worth the commitment of the reader to tackle this large novel.

A very funny and unusual alternate history in which the Jews settle in Alaska after World War II, rather than Israel. It's called "counterfactual" history by academics and historians, but "alternate" history by the many science fiction readers who have enjoyed this sub-genre of science fiction for decades; this book is a unique piece and a nice change from the many South-won-Civil-War and Nazis-won-WW2 alternate histories.

This feels a bit like the TV show The Office come to life. Set at a Chicago ad agency facing layoffs at the end of the '90s, the author totally nails the dialogue, rhythm and "voice" of the workplace.