It is that time again - the end of the year. All the major reviewing publications are issuing their best books lists, and bloggers are keeping pace with their more personalized lists. Here is what I really liked in 2008. Happy Holiday Reading!
Recent Nonfiction
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn
Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
The Man Whom Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Jashua Kendall
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress by Joseph Wheelan
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven by Susan Richard Shreve
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Recent Fiction
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories by Max Apple
My Fellow Americans by Keir Graff
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Great Old Books
The Abbess of Crewe: A Modern Morality Tale by Muriel Spark (from 1974)
Jordan County by Shelby Foote (from 1954)
Children's Books
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola
Audiobook
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat, read by Robin Miles
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family by Martha Raddatz
Book Review Blog
Blogging for a Good Book
Library Science
Serving Teen Through Readers' Advisory by Heather Booth
Movies
Chop Shop, directed by Ramin Bahrani
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, directed by Yimou Zhang
Music
Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Performance
Jeeves Intervenes: A Play from First Folio
Presentations at Conferences
Andrew Carnegie with a Yak
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2 comments:
I liked Planting the Trees of Kenya a lot, but I also liked Wangari's Trees of Peace. I can't decide which I liked more.
Great lead on movies and titles! I'll be ordering heavy when I get back to work! :) Merry Christmas to you and your family!
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