Here come the lists!! Amazon recently posted their Best Books of 2008 lists… See how many you have read so far…
First, here is their editors’ top 10:
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
- Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
- Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- The Likeness by Tana French
- Serena by Ron Rash
- So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu
And, for comparison, here’s their customer favorites top 10 (the books published for the first time this year that sold the most on our site through October):
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (the only book in both top 10s)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling (our exclusive collector’s edition is a little further down the list, at #17)
- The Appeal by John Grisham
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- The Revolution by Ron Paul
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
This year I read Edgar Sawtelle, When You Are Engulfed in Flames (review forthcoming), In Defense of Food, and The Last Lecture. Over the holidays I’m looking forward to Grisham‘s latest, and I just picked up So Brave, Young, and Handsome and The Northern Clemency.
So, which have you read? Any glaring omissions?
Kristen, I hope you like So Brave, Young, and Handsome more than I did! If you hadn’t just bought it I would have offered to send you my copy! My book club just read it and we did not really enjoy it, even though most of us enjoyed Peace Like A River.
Happy freezing cold Monday! (good gracious!)
Laura
Thank you for the warning, Laura! Now I will adjust my expectations accordingly and hopefully enjoy it more. I have been expecting it to be as good as Peace (which I loved). I’m hoping to read it over the holidays — we’ll see! Thanks for the offer to send it, by the way!