| Khaled Hosseini came out of nowhere in 2003, to | | | | book, The Kite Runner, on bookshelves across the |
| write The Kite Runner, a book that rose to #3 on | | | | world. And as soon as early copies started circulating |
| the New York Times bestseller list and sold 4 million | | | | here, we knew that it would live up to every |
| copies worldwide. | | | | expectation. A story of friendship between two |
| The Kite Runner was a moving story of a boy's | | | | women that complements the tale of two boys in his |
| battle within himself about truth, loyalty, and doing | | | | first book, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a compelling |
| the right thing. It also brough to Americans a chilling | | | | drama of personal and national tragedy weighted |
| picture of Afghanistan in a time when Afghanistan | | | | equally with despair and grave hope, and we have |
| was so important to US policy. | | | | chosen it as the best book of 2007." |
| The success of the Kite Runner naturally made | | | | The rest of the top 10 books of 2007: |
| Hosseini's next novel A Thousand Splendid Suns a | | | | 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot |
| tough act to follow. By now, having reached the top | | | | Diaz |
| five of the New York Times bestseller list, and having | | | | 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling |
| reached #1 of Amazon's top 100 books of 2007, it is | | | | 4. The World Without Us - Alan Weisman |
| safe to say that Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand | | | | 5. The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn Iggulden |
| Splendid Suns was a success. | | | | 6. Heartsick - Chelsea Cain |
| Here's what Amazon had to say in chosing A | | | | 7. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson |
| Thousand Splendid Suns as their top rated book: | | | | 8. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - |
| "No one doubted that Khaled Hosseini's second novel, | | | | Ishmael Beah |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns, would get a lot of | | | | 9. Better - Atul Gawande |
| attention when it came out in May. After all, there | | | | 10. I Am America (And So Can You! |
| were four million copies of the author's previous | | | | |