Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books2008

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Other Names: Booklist Editor's Choice
66 Works 59,147 Books 2,637 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Arts and Literature (89), Best of the Year Title (1), Biography (204), Biography & Memoir (8), Booklist Editor's Choice (2), Business (1), Crime (4), Fantasy (3), Fiction (578), Genre Fiction (19), Geography & Travel (4), Graphic Novels for Adults (1), Health & Medicine (11), Health and Medicine (2), History (139), History & Travel (10), Illus: Fred Marcellino (1), Language (1), Literature (5), Memoir (2), Nonfiction (1), Philosophy (1), Philosophy and Psychology (1), Poetry (41), Reference Sources (2), Religion (5), Romance (3), Science (63), Science & Technology (15), Science Fiction (2), Social Sciences (177), Technology (1), The Arts (4), Thriller (1), Top of the List (7), Travel (2), No Category (267)
Years:
All, 2024 (55), 2023 (61), 2022 (62), 2021 (66), 2020 (65), 2019 (68), 2018 (58), 2017 (65), 2016 (60), 2015 (67), 2014 (63), 2013 (65), 2012 (58), 2011 (65), 2010 (66), 2009 (58), 2008 (66), 2007 (66), 2006 (67), 2005 (66), 2004 (61), 2003 (62), 2002 (68), 2001 (62), 2000 (69), 1999 (66), 1993 (1), 1990 (1), 1990 ed. (1)
WorkCategoryYear
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq by Fernando Báez
Arts and Literature2008
Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun by Wafaa Bilal
Arts and Literature2008
The History of Gardens in Painting by Niles Buttner
Arts and Literature2008
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 (Whitney Museum of American Art) by Elisabeth Sussman
Arts and Literature2008
White Heat by Brenda Wineapple
Arts and Literature2008
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H. W. Brands
Biography2008
In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography by John D. Gartner
Biography2008
Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America by Miles Harvey
Biography2008
Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business by Ethan Mordden
Biography2008
My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Ignacio Ramonet
Biography2008
The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition by Thomas P. Slaughter
Biography2008
First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood by Thrity Umrigar
Biography2008
Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber
Biography2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
Booklist Editor's Choice2008
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams
Booklist Editor's Choice2008
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
Fiction2008
A Partisan's Daughter by Louis de Bernières
Fiction2008
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Fiction2008
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2008
Under a Blood Red Sky by Kate Furnivall
Fiction2008
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Fiction2008
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan
Fiction2008
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
Fiction2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction2008
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Fiction2008
Come with Me to Babylon by Paul M. Levitt
Fiction2008
The House of Widows: A Novel by Askold Melnyczuk
Fiction2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
Fiction2008
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Fiction2008
La herencia de Eszter by Sándor Márai
Fiction2008
Lush Life by Richard Price
Fiction2008
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Fiction2008
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck
Fiction2008
Driftless by David Rhodes
Fiction2008
Indignation by Philip Roth
Fiction2008
The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Fiction2008
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction2008
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
Fiction2008
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
History2008
Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South by Robert Goodwin
History2008
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings
History2008
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America by Louis P. Masur
History2008
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near-Triumph of American Eugenics by Victoria F. Nourse
History2008
The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam (Bampton Lectures in America) by Jonathan Riley-Smith
History2008
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War by Robert Roper
History2008
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
History2008
Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. Walker
History2008
Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War by David Williams
History2008
Warhorses: Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa
Poetry2008
Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems by Kenji Miyazawa
Poetry2008
The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser
Religion2008
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain by David Bainbridge
Science2008
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Science2008
The Big Necessity by Rose George
Science2008
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Science2008
The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It by Robert Zimmerman
Science2008
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz
Social Sciences2008
Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America by Donna Foote
Social Sciences2008
Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence by Keli Goff
Social Sciences2008
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs by Melody Petersen
Social Sciences2008
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough
Social Sciences2008
The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 Of The World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century by Mike Wallace
Social Sciences2008
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret by Seth Shulman
Technology2008
Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey by William Least Heat-Moon
Travel2008
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Travel2008
Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller
2008

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