Books Ive Read This Year I (2008)

Explore my 2008 reading list with this curated collection of books I've read this year. Discover top picks, hidden gems, and literary favorites from my personal journey through 2008's best reads.

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The Executioner's Song

by Norman Mailer

Re-creates the crime, trial and events leading to the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who requested the death sentence.
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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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The Fall

by Albert Camus

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from …
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The Caine Mutiny

by Herman Wouk

The story of a modern-day mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel.
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Naked lunch

 

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A "A beautifully ragged, laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable book" (San Francisco Chronicle) that redefines both family and …
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Mumbo Jumbo

by Ishmael Reed

The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious …
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the …
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The Russian Debutante's Handbook

by Gary Shteyngart

NAMED ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS A visionary novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Super …
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Up

by Ronald Sukenick

The author himself is the main character of this book, in which he glides undisturbed from present to future, from reality to fantasy. Sometimes he's …
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

by George Saunders

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, and the novel Lincoln in the …
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Pastoralia

by George Saunders

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the …
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The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.

by George Steiner

In this profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt and vengeance and the power of evil, Israeli Nazi-hunters, 30 years after the end …
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