Best Books of Aught-Seven

My favorite books of the year:

1. Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, H.R. Stoneback
2. Queenpin, Megan Abbott
3. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
4. A Miracle of Catfish, Larry Brown
5. Cruel Poetry, Vicki Hendricks
6. A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, Megan Abbott (editor)
7. The Tin Roof Blowdown/Jesus Out to Sea: Stories, James Lee Burke
8. Up in Honey's Room, Elmore Leonard
9. The Blonde/Redhead, Duane Swierczynski (came out in 2006, but what the hell)
10. The Shotgun Rule/Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Charlie Huston

And then there's this:
Everything Hard Case Crime put out this year was solid gold. Murdaland, Out of the Gutter, and Oxford American were the best print magazines around, and Thuglit, Muzzle Flash, Demolition, and Hardluck Stories proved to be the best online reading I've ever come across.