2008 Publisher's Weekly (PW) Best Books

Fiction

• When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
• Roberto Bolaño, trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
• Hold Tight, by Harlan Coben
• The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly
• Master of the Delta, by Thomas H. Cook
• The Konkans,by Tony D'Souza
• The Plague of Doves, by Louise Erdrich
• The Likeness, by Tana French
• Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
• Ritual, by Mo Hayder
• The Lazarus Project, by Aleksandar Hemon
• Day, by A.L. Kennedy
• My Revolutions, by Hari Kunzru
• Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Sway, by Zachary Lazar
• The Boat, by Nam Le
• The Given Day, by Dennis Lehane
• Flesh House, by Stuart MacBride
• How the Dead Dream, by Lydia Millet
• Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill
• Knockemstiff, by Donald Ray Pollock
• Lush Life, by Richard Price
• Serena, by Ron Rash
• Breath, by Tim Winton
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewsk

Mystery

• Wild Inferno, by Sandi Ault
• Lie Down with the Devil, by Linda Barnes
• Ghost at Work, by Carolyn Hart
• The Private Patient, by P.D. James
• The Messengers of Death: A Mystery in Provence, by Pierre Magnan, trans. from the French by Patricia Clancy
• Death's Half Acre, by Margaret Maron
• Salt River, by James Sallis
• Fear of Landing, by David Waltner-Toews
• The Calling, by Inger Ash Wolfe

SF/Fantasy/Horror

• The Living Dead, Edited by John Joseph Adams
• Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Ink and Steel, by Elizabeth Bear
• City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear
• Fallen, by Tim Lebbon
• Filter House, by Nisi Shawl
• Half a Crown, by Jo Walton

Mass Market

• No One Heard Her Scream, by Jordan Dane
• The Face, by Angela Hunt
• Deadly Deceptions, by Linda Lael Miller
• Heart of the Wolf, by Terry Spear
• Private Arrangements, by Sherry Thomas

Nonfiction

• How to Live: A Search forWisdom from Old People(While They Are Still on This Earth), by Henry Alford
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
• The Journal of Hélène Berr, by Hélène Berr
• The Solitary Vice: Against Reading, by Mikita Brottman
• Abraham Lincoln: A Life, by Michael Burlingame
• The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins
• Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Standard Operating Procedure, by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
• Champlain's Dream, by David Hackett Fischer
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America, by David Hajdu
• Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris
• Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time, by Susan Madden Lankford
• God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215, by David Levering Lewis
• The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, by Steve Lopez
• The Dark Side, by Jane Mayer
• An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir, by Elizabeth McCracken
• How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, by Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros, by Hemanta Mishra with Jim Ottaway Jr.
• Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, by Loretta Napoleoni
• Descent into Chaos, by Ahmed Rashid
• Epilogue: A Memoir, by Anne Roiphe
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder
• The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War, by Asne Seierstad
• Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives, by Jim Sheeler
• Audition: A Memoir, by Barbara Walters
• The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria

Religion Fiction

• The Shape of Mercy, by Susan Meissner
• Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, by Anne Rice

Children's Fiction

• Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves, by M.T. Anderson
• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, by Jeanne Birdsall
• Masterpiece, by Elise Broach
• Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
• Bog Child, by Siobhan Dowd
• Dark Dude, by Oscar Hijuelos
• Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
• Savvy, by Ingrid Law
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart
• Sunrise over Fallujah, by Walter Dean Myers
• Nation, by Terry Pratchett