Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the YearNonfiction2008

Given by Publishers Weekly

Other Names: Publisher's Weekly Best Book, Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
27 Works 32,718 Books 922 Reviews ½ 4.0
Categories:
All, Best Children's Book (2), Children's Fiction (3), Fiction (317), Lifestye (1), Lifestyle (77), Mass Market (10), Mysteries (6), Mystery (22), Mystery/Thriller (101), Non-Fiction (1), Nonfiction (386), Poetry (10), Religion (83), Religious Fiction (7), Romance (45), SF/Fantasy/Horror (9), Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror (79), No Category (49)
Years:
All, 2023 (2), 2020 (1), 2019 (30), 2018 (30), 2017 (29), 2016 (29), 2015 (28), 2014 (30), 2013 (30), 2012 (28), 2011 (29), 2010 (23), 2009 (23), 2008 (27), 2007 (26), 2006 (21)
WorkYear
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People by Henry Alford
2008
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
2008
The Journal of Hélène Berr by Hélène Berr
2008
The Solitary Vice: Against Reading (Counterpoint) by Mikita Brottman
2008
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
2008
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2008
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer
2008
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2008
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008
Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch
2008
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
2008
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood by Mark Harris
2008
Maggots in my Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time by Susan Madden Lankford
2008
God's Crucible by David Levering Lewis
2008
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
2008
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
2008
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays by Daniel Mendelsohn
2008
The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the Indian Rhinoceros by Hemanta Mishra
2008
Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality by Loretta Napoleoni
2008
Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid
2008
Epilogue: A Memoir by Anne Roiphe
2008
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
2008
The Angel of Grozny by Åsne Seierstad
2008
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
2008
Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters
2008
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
2008

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