ALA Notable Books 2008

Fiction
Away by Bloom
Five Skies by Carlson
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Chabon
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Clarke
Finn by Clinch
The Pesthouse by Crace
The Ministry of Special Cases by Englander
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes by Holthe
Mister Pip by Jones
The Complete Stories by Malouf
On Chesil Beach by McEwan
Out Stealing Horses by Petterson
Cheating at Canasta by Trevor

Non-fiction
The World without Us by Weisman (304.2 Wri)
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline by Margonelli (338.2 Mar)
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Angier (500 Ang)
Super-Crunches: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ayres (519.5 Ayr)
How Doctors Think by Groopman (610 Gro)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Kingsolver (641 Kin)
A New Hunger by Bosselaar (811 Bos)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007 by Kennedy (811 Ken)
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Ackerman (940.53 Ack)
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Howell (B Bell How)
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Isaacson (B Einstein Isa)
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Godwin (B Godwin God)