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Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2008
The Washington Post editors and reviewers choose the books that rise to the top in 2008. Source: Washington Post
Fiction | Nonfiction
Fiction
- Cost by Roxana Robinson
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
Nonfiction
- The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars by Andrew X. Pham
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer by Fred Kaplan
- One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
- Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton