The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, a volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, was edited by Dave Eggers and introduced by Sufjan Stevens.[1][2][3]
| Work | Source | Author |
| "Middle-American Gothic" | Spin (magazine) | Jonathan Ames |
| "A Happy Death" | Fun Home | Alison Bechdel |
| "Ghost Children" | Creative Nonfiction | D. Winston Brown |
| "Rock the Junta" | Mother Jones | Scott Carrier |
| "American" | New Orleans Review | Joshua Clark |
| "What is your dangerous idea?" | Edge Foundation | Edge Foundation |
| "Selling the General" | Five Chapters | Jennifer Egan |
| "Where I Slept" | Tin House | Stephen Elliott |
| "Loteria" | Indiana Review | Kevin A. Gonzales |
| "How to Tell Stories to Children" | Zoetrope | Miranda July |
| "Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine" | The New Yorker | Matthew Klam |
| "All Aboard the Bloated Boat" | Barrelhouse | Lee Klein |
| "Love and Honora and Pity and Pride...." | Zoetrope | Nam Le |
| "Darfur Diaries" | Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro | |
| "The Big Suck" | Virginia Quarterly Review | David J. Morris |
| "Stuyvesant High School Commencement Speech" | Conan O'Brien | |
| "Humpies" | Agni Online | Mattox Roesch |
| "So Long, Anyway" | Epoch | Patrick Somerville |
| "Literature Unnatured" | American Short Fiction | Joy Williams |