Best Book of 2007 Revealed - A Thousand Splendid Suns

By Mitchell Blatt

Khaled Hosseini came out of nowhere in 2003, to write The Kite Runner, a book that rose to #3 on the New York Times bestseller list and sold 4 million copies worldwide.

The Kite Runner was a moving story of a boy's battle within himself about truth, loyalty, and doing the right thing. It also brough to Americans a chilling picture of Afghanistan in a time when Afghanistan was so important to US policy.

The success of the Kite Runner naturally made Hosseini's next novel A Thousand Splendid Suns a tough act to follow. By now, having reached the top five of the New York Times bestseller list, and having reached #1 of Amazon's top 100 books of 2007, it is safe to say that Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns was a success.

Here's what Amazon had to say in chosing A Thousand Splendid Suns as their top rated book:

"No one doubted that Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, would get a lot of attention when it came out in May. After all, there were four million copies of the author's previous book, The Kite Runner, on bookshelves across the world. And as soon as early copies started circulating here, we knew that it would live up to every expectation. A story of friendship between two women that complements the tale of two boys in his first book, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a compelling drama of personal and national tragedy weighted equally with despair and grave hope, and we have chosen it as the best book of 2007."

The rest of the top 10 books of 2007:

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling

4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman

5. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden

6. Heartsick - Chelsea Cain

7. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson

8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Ishmael Beah

9. Better - Atul Gawande

10. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert

For more info or to purchase these books:
A Thousand Splendid Suns (http://www.urlgoto.com/hosseinibooks)
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (http://urlgoto.com/tbwlo/)
The World Without Us... and Any of the Other Books (http://urlgoto.com/withoutus)





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