My best of 2008.
Discover the best books of 2008, featuring top fiction reads like Michael Connelly's Lost Light and Angels Flight, plus Charles Johnson's Middle Passage. Explore our curated 2008 book list for unforgettable classics and hidden gems.
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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain ― A Provocative Neuroscience Study on Written Language and Evolution
by Wolf, Maryanne
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Angels Flight
by Michael Connelly
A novel about the investigation of an attorney's murder in Los Angeles.
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Middle Passage
by Charles Johnson
A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg.
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My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
by Cohen, Benyamin
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Lost Light
by Michael Connelly
The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he's ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
