The following were the four book winners of the 2007 Borders Original Voices Awards, with comments from the selection committee:
- Fiction: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (Canongate). "Hall created a great read for anyone willing to surrender disbelief and trust him as a storyteller even if the narrator can't be trusted."
- Nonfiction: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin (Little, Brown). "The story took readers somewhere unfamiliar and taught them something new. For those readers who thought they knew something, the book challenged that knowledge."
- Children's picture book: Wolf! Wolf! by John Rocco (Hyperion) "This story has a delightfully clever and different ending than a reader would expect and is a charming read aloud for any child."
- Young adult/independent reader: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A Novel in Cartoons by Jeff Kinney (Abrams). "Nostalgic adults will empathize with Greg's snarky narrative about friends and family, further reminding readers why it's good not to be 12 anymore."
The awards honor "fresh, compelling and ambitious works from new and emerging talents." Winners receive $5,000. Borders store employees and corporate office employees made nominations; winners were selected by a committee of corporate staff members representing each of the four categories.