Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year2008

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All, 2023 (4), 2022 (7), 2021 (22), 2020 (15), 2019.19 (1), 2019 (12), 2018 (15), 2017 (19), 2016 (17), 2015 (14), 2014 (16), 2013 (16), [2012] (2), 2012 (9), 2011 (17), 2010 (13), 2009 (26), 2008 (29), 2007 (18), 2006 (8), 2005 (7), 2004 (10), 2003 (9), 2002 (10), 2001 (8), 2000 (6), 1999 (6), 1998 (8), 1997 (5), 1996 (9), 1994 (1), 1986 (6)
WorkCategoryYear
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
Children's (1)2008
The Umbrella Queen by Shirin Yim Bridges
Children's (10)2008
Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis
Children's (2)2008
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Children's (3)2008
Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton
Children's (4)2008
Oodles of Animals by Lois Ehlert
Children's (5)2008
Too Many Toys by David Shannon
Children's (6)2008
The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen
Children's (7)2008
Alphabet by Matthew Van Fleet
Children's (8)2008
Help Me, Mr. Mutt!: Expert Answers for Dogs with People Problems by Janet Stevens
Children's (9)2008
Personal Days by Ed Park
Fiction2008
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Fiction2008
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Fiction (1)2008
The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
Fiction (10)2008
Lush Life by Richard Price
Fiction (2)2008
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction (3)2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction (5)2008
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Fiction (7)2008
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Fiction (8)2008
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Fiction (9)2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Non-fiction (1)2008
The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire by Joe Jackson
Non-fiction (2)2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Non-fiction (3)2008
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French
Non-fiction (4)2008
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Non-fiction (5)2008
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Non-fiction (6)2008
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
Non-fiction (7)2008
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman
Non-fiction (8)2008
The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
Non-fiction (9)2008

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Time magazine's yearly "Best Books" list was first published in 1996. The format has changed over the years, ranging from 10 to 30 books, usually categorized by fiction and non-fiction, with the exception of 2006. Children's books were added in 2008 & 2009.

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Time magazine's yearly "Best Books" list was first published in 1996. The format has changed over the years, ranging from 10 to 30 books, usually categorized by fiction and non-fiction, with the exception of 2006. Children's books were added in 2008 & 2009.

When adding new books to the list, use the former entries as an example. Fiction is .30 -> .21 (with #1=.30, #10=.21) - Non-fiction is .20 -> .11 (#1 = .20 through #10=.11) and Children's is .10 to .1 (#1=.10 though #10 = .1) - this format will allow the correct display since Time ranks the books and order of display on LibraryThing is important. (English, Member-written)

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