Nancy Pearl's Favorite Books of 2008

Fiction:
David Benioff - City of Thieves
Jonathan Carroll - The Ghost in Love
James Collins - Beginner's Greek
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Louise Erdrich - The Plague of Doves
Nick Harkaway - The Gone Away World
Jack Miles - Dear American Airlines
Toni Morrison - A Mercy
Christine Schutt - All Souls
Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
Don Robertson - The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole


Non-fiction:
Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 
Marie Brenner - Apples and Oranges
Tim Flannery - Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature 
Philip Gourevitch, ed - The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III
Mark Harris - Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Tony Horwitz - A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Maira Kalman - Principles of Uncertainty
Jane Mayer - The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror turned Into a War on American Ideals
Annette Gordon Reed - The Hemmingses of Monticello: An American Family
Joan Wickersham - The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order