BOOKS: The year's best books (5 LISTS)

BOOKS: The year's best books | AccessAtlanta: "There's not much consensus when it comes to the best books of the year. Only one work of fiction —- 'Tree of Smoke' by Denis Johnson —- appears on as many as four of five critics' lists detailed here. Curiously, while The New York Times enshrined the Vietnam novel as one of its five best fiction reads of 2007, the Los Angeles Times did not rank it among its more than 20 selections. Go figure. Better yet, go read and decide for yourself. Here is our sampling of the year's finest fiction and nonfiction from critics around the country."