In case you missed it, the American Library Association's review magazine, Booklist, announced its annual Notable Books for 2008 in March. Perhaps you will now have the time to dive into one or more of these wonderful works:
Nonfiction
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. By Barbara Kingsolver.
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. By Natalie Angier.
Einstein: His Life and Universe. By Walter Isaacson.
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations. By Georgina Howell.
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline. By Lisa Margonelli.
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa. By Peter Godwin.
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. By Diane Ackerman.
How Doctors Think. By Jerome Groopman.
Super-Crunches: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. By Ian Ayres.
The World without Us. By Alan Weisman.
Fiction
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England. By Brock Clarke.
Cheating at Canasta. By William Trevor.
Finn. By Jon Clinch.
Five Skies. By Ron Carlson.
Mister Pip. By Lloyd Jones.
Out Stealing Horses. By Per Petterson. G
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. By Michael Chabon.
Away. By Amy Bloom.
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes. By Tess Uriza Holthe.
The Ministry of Special Cases. By Nathan Englander.
On Chesil Beach. By Ian McEwan.
The Pesthouse. By Jim Crace.
For more information on these books, please check out this link:
http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=2570577
