Every June and December, Booktrust collates the national newspapers' summer reading and books of the year supplements for you.
Here's what the critics thought you should have been reading on the beach in 2007.
Fiction
Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach (Jonathan Cape)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (HarperPerennial)
Alaa Al Aswany The Yacoubian Building (Hamish Hamilton)
Blake Morrison South of the River (Chatto & Windus)
Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (Fourth Estate)
Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End (Viking)
Steph Penney The Tenderness of Wolves (Quercus)
Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns (Bloomsbury)
Sebastian Faulks Engleby (Hutchinson)
Don DeLillo Falling Man (Picador)
Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)
Jim Crace The Pesthouse (Picador)
Non-fiction
Rajiv Chandresekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Bloomsbury)
John Lanchester Family Romance (Faber)
Simon Sebag Montefiore Young Stalin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
David Kynaston Austerity Britain (Bloomsbury)
Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great (Atlantic)
Tim Jeal Stanley (Faber)
