More Best Books
Posted by: Mary Ellen
Here’s another entry in the end-of-the-year best books sweepstakes: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008.
Fiction
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories, by Steven Millhauser
A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
Netherland, by Joseph O’Neill
2666, by Roberto Bolano
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nonfiction
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer
The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins
Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul, by Patrick French
