Books to read in 2008

Discover the best books to read in 2008 with our curated list of top titles from that year. Find must-read fiction, nonfiction, and hidden gems to revisit or explore now.

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Truman

 

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The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully …
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of …
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

by Tom Robbins

“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, …
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Einstein

by Walter Isaacson

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature …
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Dreams from My Father

by Barack Obama

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his …
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The Fabric of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through …
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Blink

 

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

by Tracy Kidder

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that …
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