RiverRun Favorites for Books Read in 2008

By michele on December 20, 2008 | Add a Comment

Everywhere you look on the internet, you'll find best of 2008 lists.  Here are some of our favorite reads of the year. All of these are available for purchase through our website or at our store. If you want even more suggestions, browse our Staff Picks! What were some of your top books this year?

Mysteries/Thrillers/Horror:

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

In the Woods by Tana French

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane

Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon

 

Fiction:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

2666 by Roberto Bolaño

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

The Book Lover by Ali Smith

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Lush Life by Richard Price

Graphic Novels

Hellboy Vol. 8: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola

Comic Book Tattoo edited by Rantz A. Hoseley and Tori Amos

Children's Books

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell

Monkey With a Tool Belt by Chris Monroe

There Are Cats in this Book by Viviane Schwarz

Doctor Ted by Andrea Beaty

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

 

Poetry

The Monster Loves His Labyrinth by Charles Simic

Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery

Say Uncle by Kay Ryan

 

Nonfiction

What It Is by Lynda Barry

Girls of Tender Age by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver