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Recommended Reading
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Best Books of 2008
Here is a selection of “Editors’ Picks” for 2008:
Fiction
Atkinson, Kate
When Will There Be Good News?
Barker, Pat
Life Class
Berger, John
From A to X: A Story in Letters
Bolano, Roberto
2666
Bynum, Sarah
Ms. Hempel Chronicles: Stories
Carey, Peter
His Illegal Self
Coetzee, J. M.
Diary of a Bad Year
Diaz, Junot
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Earley, Tony
The Blue Star
Enger, Leif
So Brave, Young and Handsome
Enright, Anne
Yesterday's Weather
Galchen, Rivka
Atmospheric Disturbances
Guterson, David
The Other
Harrison, Colin
The Finder
Harrison, Jim
The English Major
Hemon, Aleksandar
Lazarus Project
Jian, Ma
Beijing Coma
Kunzru, Hari
My Revolutions
Kushner, Rachel
Telex from Cuba
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Unaccustomed Earth
Lazar, Zachary
Sway
Le Carre, John
A Most Wanted Man
Le, Nam
The Boat
Leigh, Julia
Disquiet
Matthiessen, Peter
Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson
Legend
Miles, Jonathan
Dear American Airlines
Millhauser, Steven
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
Morrison, Toni
A Mercy
O'Neill, Joseph
Netherland
Pelecanos, George
The Turnaround
Price, Richard
Lush Life
Proulx, Annie
Fine Just the Way It Is
Robinson, Marilynne
Home
Roth, Philip
Indignation
Rushdie, Salman
Enchantress of Florence
Scibona, Salvatore
The End
Shaffer, Mary Anne and Barrow, Annie
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Silver, Marisa
The God of War
Sittenfeld, Curtis
American Wife
Stanisic, Sasa
How the Soldier repairs the Gramophone
Stephenson, Neal
Anathem
Taylor, Benjamin
The Book of Getting Even
Tinti, Hannah
The Good Thief
Toews, Miriam
The Flying Troutman
Tremain, Rose
The Road Home
Updike, John
The Widows of Eastwick
Wideman, John
Fanon
Winton, Tim
Breath
Wolff, Tobias
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories
Wroblewski, David
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Nonfiction
Adams, John
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
Ariely, Dan
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that
Shape OurDecisions
Barnes, Julian
Nothing To Be Frightened Of
Bishop, Bill
The Big Sort
Blackburn, Julia
The Three
of Us: A Family Story
Bumiller, Elizabeth
Condoleezza Rice: An American Life
Carr, David
The Night of the Gun
Cooper, Helen
House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African
Childhood
Dray, Philip
Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction
Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen
Faust, Drew
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American
Civil War
Filkins, Dexter
The Forever War
Fischer, David H
Champlain's Dream
French, Patrick
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography
of V. S. Naipul
Friedman, Thomas
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green
Revolution and How It Can Renew America
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Fiction
