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New York Times 10 Best Books of 2008
Rankings reflect sales for the week ending December 27, 2008. Source: New York Times
Fiction | Nonfiction
Fiction
- Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories by Steven Millhauser
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nonfiction
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
- The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French