Whether you’re looking for a last-minute holiday gift idea for a lapsed bibliophile , or just curious how your favorite books of the past 12 months have been ranked by the “experts,” check out who listed what as the best reads of 2007 at the Los Angeles Times , the National Book Critics Circle , New York magazine, the New York Times , Publishers Weekly , Salon , Slate , the Village Voice , and the Washington Post .

And while we’re on the subject of recommended reading, have you noticed the Free Library’s new Popular Reading Booklists that allow you to peruse and click directly into the Library’s online catalog? Check them out here .