Book Recommendations

Best nonfiction books of 2008 | csmonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor‘s list.

Best novels of 2008 | csmonitor.com: From The Christian Science Monitor.

Best Books of 2008 : NPR: This list includes links to recommendations of books in many categories, including fiction, foreign fiction, politics and current events, cookbooks, crime and mystery novels, and National Book Award Winners.

The Big Pictures: Best Gift Books 2008 : NPR: NPR (National Public Radio) weighs in with some gift suggestions, with the following warning: “A few of the gorgeous tomes below tip into the 20-pound range, so to give you a sense of what you might be lugging and/or mailing, we’ve included the physical attributes of

Just as holiday decorations appear earlier and earlier every year, The New York Times is getting an early start on making its gift-giving suggestions. So, with all proper fanfare, here are some of its lists: 100 Notable Books of 2008 This is the first page of a multi-page listing of books in the categories of

Book Recommendations: The Books That Changed Your Lives Here’s an interesting post for readers. Late last week the folks at Lifehacker asked readers to post about the books that have changed their lives. In this post they compile the top vote-getters. (Warning: One commenter said that the summaries give away too many plot points about

50 States of Literature: Heading On Down to Colorado | Columbia Spectator The Columbia Spectator cruises into Colorado with Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong: Here, patches of snow sit among blue mounds of sandhill and dead sunflowers drop their loaded heads onto the black-top roads. In this atmosphere we find a land at once modernized and