Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
T.S. Eliot, in The Waste Land (1922)
Novels1. The Hakawati (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Rabih Alameddine
2. Peace (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Richard Bausch
3. The Orientalist and the Ghost (Doubleday, 2008) / Susan Barker
4. Remember Me (Sceptre, 2008) / Melvyn Bragg
5. Morality Tale (Counterpoint, 2008) / Sylvia Brownrigg
6. Amenable Women (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Mavis Cheek
7. So Brave, Young, and Handsome (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008) / Leif Enger
8. God of Speed (Allen & Unwin, 2008) / Luke Davies
9. The Sealed Letter (HarperCollins Canada, 2008) / Emma Donoghue
10. The Plague of Doves (Harper, 2008) / Louise Erdrich
11. Scottsboro (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Ellen Feldman
12. The Spare Room (Text Publishing, 2008) / Helen Garner
13. The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Andrew Sean Greer
14. The Seance (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / John Harwood
15. The Northern Clemency (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Philip Hensher
16. The Third Angel (Shaye Areheart, 2008) / Alice Hoffman
17. The Sorrows of an American (Henry Holt, 2008) / Siri Hustvedt
18. Kieron Smith, Boy (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / James Kelman
19. The Good Parents (Random House Australia, 2008) / Joan London
20. River of Heaven (Shaye Areheart, 2008)/ Lee Martin
21. Shadow Country (Modern Library, 2008) / Peter Matthiessen
22. Trauma (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Patrick McGrath
23. Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance (John Murray, 2008) (first published in 2002) / Lloyd Jones
24. The Enchantress of Florence (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Salman Rushdie
25. Belong to Me (William Morrow, 2008) / Marisa de los Santos
26. All Souls (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Christine Schutt
27. The Butt (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Will Self
28. The God of War (Simon & Schuster, 2008) / Marisa Silver
29. Bone China (Harper Press, 2008) / Roma Tearne
First Novels1. The Outlander (Ecco, 2008) / Gil Adamson
2. The White Tiger (Atlantic, 2008) / Aravind Adiga
3. The Painter of Shanghai (Penguin, 2008) / Jennifer Cody Epstein
4. The Night of the Mi’raj (Little, Brown, 2008) / Zoë Ferraris
5. Attachments (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Isabel Fonseca
6. Love Marriage (Random House/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / V.V. Ganeshananthan
7. The End of East (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008) / Jen Sookfong Lee
8. The Toss of a Lemon (Random House Canada, 2008) / Padma Viswanathan
Stories1. The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted and Other Small Acts of Liberation (Random House, 2008) / Elizabeth Berg
2. Unaccustomed Earth (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Jhumpa Lahiri
3. Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (Ecco, April 2008) / Joyce Carol Oates
4. Storm Over Belfast (New Island Books, 2008) / Mary O’Donnell
5. The Complete Short Stories (with an introduction by Liz Lochhead) (Polygon, 2008) / Agnes Owens
6. Dictation: A Quartet (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Cynthia Ozick
Poetry
1. Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Frank Bidart
2. For All We Know (Wake Forest University Press, 2008) / Ciaran Carson
3. Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar (eds.)
4. The Broken Word (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Adam Foulds
5. Sea Change (Ecco, 2008) / Jorie Graham
6. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) / Juan Felipe Herrera
7. Invasions (Ivan R. Dee, 2008) / Adam Kirsch
8. Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems New and Selected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / August Kleinzahler
9. The Landscapist: Selected Poems (trans. from the French by John Ashbery) (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) / Pierre Martory
8. Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems New and Selected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / August Kleinzahler
9. The Landscapist: Selected Poems (trans. from the French by John Ashbery) (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) / Pierre Martory
10. The Bestiary (Polygon, 2008) / Sam Meekings
11. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Bernard O’Donoghue
12. That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008) / Charles Simic
Nonfiction
1. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden) (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Isabel Allende
2. A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (Penguin Press, 2008) / Christopher Benfey
3. The Dream: A Memoir (Ballantine Books, 2008) / Harry Bernstein
4. A Wolf at the Table (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) / Augusten Burroughs
5. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (McSweeney’s Books, 2008) / Michael Chabon
6. Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008) / Melissa J. Delbridge
7. Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 (Yale University Press, 2008) / Anthony Fletcher
8. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (John Murray, 2008) / Henry Hitchings
9. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (Picador, 2008) / Clive James
10. The Library at Night (Yale University Press, 2008) / Alberto Manguel
11. A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Granta, 2008) / Michael Moran
12. What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (ed. Carolyn C. Dennard) (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) / Toni Morrison
13. Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Ferdinand Mount
14. What Rhymes with Bastard? (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Linda Robertson
15. A Dangerous Liaison (Century, April 2008) / Carole Seymour-Jones
16. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays (Random House, 2008) / William Styron
17. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Kate Summerscale
18. Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam Adult, 2008) / Kurt Vonnegut
11. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Bernard O’Donoghue
12. That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008) / Charles Simic
Nonfiction1. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden) (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Isabel Allende
2. A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (Penguin Press, 2008) / Christopher Benfey
3. The Dream: A Memoir (Ballantine Books, 2008) / Harry Bernstein
4. A Wolf at the Table (St. Martin’s Press, 2008) / Augusten Burroughs
5. Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (McSweeney’s Books, 2008) / Michael Chabon
6. Family Bible (University of Iowa Press, 2008) / Melissa J. Delbridge
7. Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914 (Yale University Press, 2008) / Anthony Fletcher
8. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (John Murray, 2008) / Henry Hitchings
9. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (Picador, 2008) / Clive James
10. The Library at Night (Yale University Press, 2008) / Alberto Manguel
11. A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland (Granta, 2008) / Michael Moran
12. What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction (ed. Carolyn C. Dennard) (University Press of Mississippi, 2008) / Toni Morrison
13. Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Ferdinand Mount
14. What Rhymes with Bastard? (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Linda Robertson
15. A Dangerous Liaison (Century, April 2008) / Carole Seymour-Jones
16. Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays (Random House, 2008) / William Styron
17. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Kate Summerscale
18. Armageddon in Retrospect (Putnam Adult, 2008) / Kurt Vonnegut
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