2 0 0 8 b o o k s

j a n u a r y

  1. Eclipse / Stephenie Meyer
  2. The Night Journal / Elizabeth Crook
  3. Tomorrow / Graham Swift
  4. Catching Genius / Kristy Kiernan
  5. The Sisters Mortland / Sally Beauman

f e b r u a r y

  1. Being / Kevin Brooks
  2. Son of a Witch: A Novel / Gregory Maguire
  3. We Are All Fine Here / Mary Guterson
  4. Once Upon a Day: A Novel / Lisa Tucker
  5. Duma Key / Stephen King
  6. The burn journals / Brent Runyon
  7. A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder / Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman
  8. The starfish and the spider / Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

m a r c h

  1. Slam / Nick Hornby
  2. Divisadero / Michael Ondaatje
  3. Speaking with the angel : original stories / edited by Nick Hornby

a p r i l

  1. The waiting years / Fumiko Enchi; translated by John Bester
  2. Remainder / by Tom McCarthy
  3. Let the Northern Lights erase your name : a novel / Vendela Vida

m a y

  1. Born standing up : a comic's life / Steve Martin
  2. What do we know: poems and prose poems / Mary Oliver
  3. Bag of Bones / Stephen King

j u n e

  1. Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Süskind
  2. Savage grace / Natalie Robins & Steven M.L. Aronson
  3. The prestige / Christopher Priest
  4. Edenville Owls / Robert B. Parker

j u l y

  1. The host : a novel / Stephenie Meyer
  2. The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga
  3. The complete Western stories / Elmore Leonard
  4. The mysterious Benedict Society / Trent Lee Stewart
  5. December / Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop
  6. The life before her eyes / Laura Kasischke

a u g u s t

  1. I was told there'd be cake : essays / Sloane Crosley
  2. Breaking Dawn / Stephenie Meyer
  3. Save the males: why men matter why women should care / Kathleen Parker
  4. Wanted / Mark Millar
  5. The sister : a novel / Poppy Adams
  6. Vanish / Tom Pawlik
  7. Ancient highway : a novel / Bret Lott
  8. Intercourse : stories / Robert Olen Butler

s e p t e m b e r

  1. Watchmen / Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins
  2. Magic for beginners / Kelly Link
  3. The mysterious Benedict Society and the perilous journey / Trenton Lee Stewart
  4. Coraline / Neil Gaiman
  5. Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
  6. In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan

o c t o b e r

  1. What the Dead Know / Laura Lippman
  2. What I talk about when I talk about running : a memoir / Haruki Murakami
  3. Tethered : a novel / Amy MacKinnon
  4. Where late the sweet birds sang / Kate Wilhelm

n o v e m b e r

  1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  2. The Dud avocado / Elaine Dundy
  3. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters / Gordon Dahlquist
  4. On Agate Hill : a novel / Lee Smith
  5. Lonely Werewolf Girl / by Martin Millar
  6. Fieldwork / Mischa Berlinski
  7. Tell No One : a novel / by Harlan Coben

d e c e m b e r

  1. Undead and Unwed / MaryJanice Davidson
  2. Because of the Lockwoods / Dorothy Whipple
  3. Just after Sunset : Stories / Stephen King
  4. Miss Buncle's book / D.E. Stevenson
  5. The Thirteenth Tale : A Novel / Diane Setterfield.
  6. American Wife : A Novel / Curtis Sittenfeld