Five favorite books, selected from among all those I read in 2008.

Other book lists that I've compiled may be found on separate pages:

FAVORITE BOOKS

2008

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Roberto Bolaño.
The Savage Detectives.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 (first published in Spain as Los detectives salvajes in 1998).
Hardcover. 577 pp.
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Edwidge Danticat.
Krik? Krak!
New York: Vintage, 1996 (originally published in 1995).
Softbound. 231 pp.
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Julie Doucet.
365 Days.
Montréal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2008.
Hardcover. 368 pp.
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Gish Jen.
Mona in the Promised Land.
New York: Vintage Books, 1997 (originally published in 1996).
Softbound. 304 pp.
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Kjell Westö.
Lang.
Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.
Softbound. 181 pp.
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favorite books: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.