Best Books of the Year
| | Saturday, December 20, 2008| Labels: best of the year, reading lists
Here are links to a few best of the year lists from various sources, many found at Fimoculous's 2008 List of Lists:
Publisher's Weekly
The Village Voice
The New York Times
NPR's Maureen Corrigan.
A wide array of lists at the book blog The Millions.
And lastly, Northtown's own Jay Herzog lists his favorites in the North Coast Journal.
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A Reading List That Shaped a President
Some of President-elect Barack Obama’s favored reading matter:
• The Bible
• “Parting the Waters,” Taylor Branch
• “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Gandhi’s autobiography
• “Team of Rivals,” Doris Kearns Goodwin
• “The Golden Notebook,” Doris Lessing
• Lincoln’s collected writings
• “Moby-Dick,” Herman Melville
• “Song of Solomon,” Toni Morrison
• Works of Reinhold Niebuhr
• “Gilead,” Marilynne Robinson
• Shakespeare’s tragedies
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