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Archive for September 29th, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008Weekly Geeks #19 - Best of 2008
Week of September 27, 2008
Dewey has challenged the Weekly Geeks to name their top picks for books published in 2008. I have read some fantastic books this year…and whittling them down to “the best” was not easy. Here are my picks so far this year (click on the titles to read my reviews):
Best Chick Lit
- Belong To Me, by Marisa de los Santos
- The Wednesday Sisters, by Meg Waite Clayton
Best Non Fiction
- The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur, by Daoud Hari
Best Literary Fiction
- Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O’Nan
- The Story of Forgetting, by Stefan Merrill Block
Best Gothic Fiction
- The Sister, by Poppy Adams
- The House at Riverton, by Kate Morton
Best Short Story Collection
- Springtime on Mars, by Susan Woodring
Best Historical Fiction
Rated 5/5:
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway
- The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
- People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
- Guernica, by Dave Boling
Rated 4.5/5:
- Resistance, by Owen Sheers
- The Heretic’s Daughter, by Kathleen Kent
- Sweetsmoke, by David Fuller