Introduction / Marjane Satrapi
Best American titles of books published in 2008
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Captioning for the blind / Rebecca Bengal
Diary of a fire lookout / Philip Connors
Everything I know about my family on my mother's side / Nathan Englander
The ticking is the bomb / Nick Flynn
David foster Wallace / Jonathan Franzen
Monster / Rebekah Frumkin
Wild berry blue / Rivka Galchen
A product of this town / J. Malcolm Garcia
Your exhausted heart / Anne Gisleson
The chameleon / David Grann
Boomtown, Iraq / Denis Johnson
Million year boom / Tom Kaczynski
The temp / Amelia Kahaney
The briefcase / Rebecca Makkai
The good word / Yannick Murphy
Mississippi drift / Matthew Power
The outlaw bride / K.G. Schneider
How to work a locker room / Michelle Seaton
Further notes on my unfortunate condition / Nick St. John.
