Many Librarians Agree…. Best Books of 2008
Fiction
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Adrian, Chris |
Better Angel |
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Adamson, Gil |
Outlander |
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Akpan, Uwem |
Say You’re One of Them |
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Alameddine, Rabih |
Hakawati |
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Aslam, Nadeem |
Wasted Vigil |
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Bahr, Howard |
Judas Field |
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Balogh, Mary |
Simply Perfect |
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Barry, Brunonia |
Lace Reader |
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Bayard, Louis |
Black Tower |
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Benicoff, David |
City of Thieves |
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Bennett, Alan |
Uncommon Reader |
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Berenson, Alex |
Ghost War |
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Berry, Steve |
Charlemagne Pursuit |
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Bohjalian, Chris |
Skeletons at the Feast |
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Brooks, Geraldine |
People of the Book |
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Brown, Janelle |
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything |
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Carroll, Jonathan |
Ghost in Love |
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Collins, James |
Beginner’s Greek |
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Davidson, Andrew |
Gargoyle |
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de los Santos, Marisa |
Belong to Me |
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Diaz, Junot |
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
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Donnelly, Jennifer |
Winter Rose |
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Ebershoff, David |
19th Wife |
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Edwards, Selden |
Little Book |
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Franklin, Ariana |
Serpent’s Tale |
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Franklin, Ariana |
Mistress of the Art of Death |
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Galloway, Steven |
Cellist of Sarajevo |
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Ghosh, Amitav |
Sea of Poppies |
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Giffin, Emily |
Love the One Your With |
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Gortner, C.W. |
Last Queen |
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Groff, Lauren |
Monsters of Templeton |
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Guterson, David |
Other |
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Haigh, Jennifer |
Condition |
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Hallinan, Tim |
Nail Through the Heart |
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Hewson, David |
Garden of Evil |
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Jordon, Hillary |
Mudbound |
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King, Stephen |
Duma Key |
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King, Susan |
Lady Macbeth |
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Kleypas, Lisa |
Blue Eyed Devil |
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Koontz, Dean |
Your Heart Belongs to Me |
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Land, Jon |
Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending |
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Le Guin, Ursula |
Lavinia |
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Le, Nam |
Boat |
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Lessing, Doris |
Alfred and Emily |
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Lodge, David |
Deaf Sentence |
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Lutz, Lisa |
Curse of the Spellmans |
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Meyer, Stephenie |
Host |
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Miller, Sue |
Senator’s Wife |
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Morrison, Toni |
Mercy |
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Murphy, Yannick |
Signed, Mata Hari |
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O’Brien, Patricia |
Harriet and Isabella |
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O’Nan, Stewart |
Songs for the Missing |
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O’Neill, Joseph |
Netherland |
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Patchett, Ann |
Run |
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Patterson, James |
Cross Country |
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Perez-Reverte, Arturo |
Painter of Battles |
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Rebeck, Theresa |
Three Girls and their Brother |
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Rhodes, David |
Driftless |
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Rice, Anne |
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana |
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Riley, Jess |
Driving Sideways |
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Robinson, Marilynne |
Home |
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Robinson, Roxana |
Cost |
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Rollins, James |
Last Oracle |
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Rosenfelt, David |
Don’t Tell a Soul |
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Rosenthal, Pam |
Edge of Impropriety |
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Roth, Philip |
Indignation |
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Sasa, Stanisic |
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone |
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Schwartz, John Burnham |
Commoner |
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Scotch, Allison Winn |
Time of My Life |
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Selden, Edwards |
Little Book |
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Shaffer, Mary Ann |
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
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Sittenfeld, Curtis |
American Wife |
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Snyder, Maria |
Fire Study |
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Spencer-Fleming, Julia |
I Shall Not Want |
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Stein, Garth |
Art of Racing in the Rain |
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Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
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Tremain, Rose |
Road Home |
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Unger, Lisa |
Black Out |
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Viswanathan, Padma |
Toss of a Lemon |
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Winton, Tim |
Breath |
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Wroblewsi, David |
Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
Mystery
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Connelly, Michael |
Brass Verdict |
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George, Elizabeth |
Careless in Red |
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Jackson, Lee |
Redemption |
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King, Laurie R. |
Touchstone |
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King, Stephen |
Duma Key |
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Koryta, Michael |
Envy the Night |
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Krueger, William Kent |
Red Knife |
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Larsson, Steig |
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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Lehane, Dennis |
Given Day |
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Muller, Marcia |
Burn Out |
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Parker, T. Jefferson |
L. A. Outlaws |
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Peacock, Justin |
Cure for Night |
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Raichev, R.T. |
Assassins at Ospreys |
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Raybourn, Deanna |
Silent in the Sanctuary |
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Robinson, Peter |
Friend of the Devil |
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Spencer-Fleming, Julia |
I Shall Not Want |
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Upson, Nicola |
Expert in Muder |
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Wall, Carolyn |
Sweeping Up Glass |
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Woods, Tana |
Likeness |
Science Fiction
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Bujold, Lois McMaster |
Passage |
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Carey, Jacqueline |
Kushiel’s Mercy |
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Evans, Chris |
Darkness Forged in Fire |
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Herbert, Brian |
Paul of Dune |
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McCaffrey, Todd |
Dragonheart:Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern |
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Moers, Walter |
City of Dreaming Books |
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Rothfuss, Patrick |
Name of the Wind |
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Sanderson, Brandon |
Hero of Ages |
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Walton, Jo |
Ha’Penny |
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Weber, David |
By Schism Rent |
Paperback
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Anderson, Catherine |
Morning Light |
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Bourne, Joanna |
Spymaster’s Lady |
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Chase Loretta |
Your Scandalous Ways |
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Duran, Meredith |
Duke of Shadows |
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Grant, Susan |
Moonstruck |
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Kleypas, Lisa |
Seduce Me at Sunrise |
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Sala, Sharon |
Healer |
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Thomas, Sherry |
Delicious |
Nonfiction
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153.753 |
Zimbardo, Philip |
Time Paradox |
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155.935 |
Ripley, Amanda |
Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why |
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302 |
Gladwell, Malcolm |
Outliers: Story of Success |
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330.122 |
Klein, Naomi |
Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
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364.106 |
Venkatesh, Sudhir |
Gang Leader for a Day |
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364.152 |
Blum, Howard |
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-making, and the Crime of the Century |
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577.16 |
Stolzenburg, William |
Where the Wild Things Were |
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598.97 |
O'Brien, Stacey |
Wesley the Owl |
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612.6 |
Roach, Mary |
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex |
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629.283 |
Vanderbilt, Tom |
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do |
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636.809 |
Myron, Vicki |
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World |
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782.421 |
Weller, Sheila |
Girls Like Us |
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796.48 |
Maraniss, David |
Rome 1960 |
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808.3 |
Wood, James |
How Fiction Works |
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814.54 |
Sedaris, David |
When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
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822.33 |
Greer, Germaine |
Shakespeare’s Wife |
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910.4 |
Weiner, Eric |
Geography of Bliss |
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915.104 |
Troost, Maartin |
Lost on Planet China |
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956.054 |
Wright, Robin |
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East |
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973.71 |
Faust, Drew Gilpin |
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War |
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Biography |
Patterson, James |
Against Medical Advice |
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Biography |
Greenberg, Michael |
Hurry-Down Sunshine |
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Biography |
Winchester, Simon |
Man Who Loved China |
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Biography |
Summerscales, Kate |
Suspicions of Mr.Whicher |