The editors of the Book Review have selected these titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008.
Fiction
1. Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Steven Millhauser)
2. A Mercy (Toni Morrison)
3. Netherland (Joseph O’Neill)
4. 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
5. Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Nonfiction
1. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Jane Mayer)
2. The Forever War (Dexter Filkins)
3. Nothing to be Frightened of (Julian Barnes)
4. The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Drew Gilpin Faust)
5. The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (Patrick French)
Source: The New York Times
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