BEST OF BOOKS IN 2008
Top 50 – Les incontournables de 2008
| Rang | Titre | Auteur | Genre / Particularité |
| 1 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | Jeunesse dystopique |
| 2 | A Mercy | Toni Morrison | Roman historique |
| 3 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | Roman monumental |
| 4 | Netherland | Joseph O’Neill | Roman contemporain |
| 5 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Roman indien, Booker Prize |
| 6 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | Roman latino, Pulitzer |
| 7 | The House of Meetings | Martin Amis | Roman russe |
| 8 | The Widows of Eastwick | John Updike | Suite romanesque |
| 9 | The Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson | Roman gothique |
| 10 | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski | Roman américain |
| 11 | The Good Thief | Hannah Tinti | Roman d’aventure |
| 12 | The Plague of Doves | Louise Erdrich | Roman amérindien |
| 13 | The Enchantress of Florence | Salman Rushdie | Roman historique |
| 14 | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | Roman irlandais |
| 15 | The Given Day | Dennis Lehane | Roman historique |
| 16 | The 19th Wife | David Ebershoff | Roman sur le mormonisme |
| 17 | The Lace Reader | Brunonia Barry | Roman psychologique |
| 18 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows | Roman épistolaire |
| 19 | The Other Queen | Philippa Gregory | Roman historique |
| 20 | The Bell Jar (réédition) | Sylvia Plath | Roman classique |
| 21 | The Appeal | John Grisham | Thriller juridique |
| 22 | Change of Heart | Jodi Picoult | Roman dramatique |
| 23 | Duma Key | Stephen King | Thriller fantastique |
| 24 | Sundays at Tiffany’s | James Patterson | Romance |
| 25 | Cross Country | James Patterson | Polar |
| 26 | Sail | James Patterson | Thriller |
| 27 | Plum Lucky | Janet Evanovich | Comédie policière |
| 28 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Roman afghan |
| 29 | The Host | Stephenie Meyer | Science-fiction jeunesse |
| 30 | Brisingr | Christopher Paolini | Fantasy |
| 31 | Breaking Dawn | Stephenie Meyer | Fantasy jeunesse |
| 32 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Fantasy jeunesse |
| 33 | Paper Towns | John Green | Jeunesse |
| 34 | The Magician’s Book | Laura Miller | Essai littéraire |
| 35 | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Kate Summerscale | True crime historique |
| 36 | The Forever War | Dexter Filkins | Non-fiction, guerre |
| 37 | The Dark Side | Jane Mayer | Non-fiction politique |
| 38 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded | Thomas L. Friedman | Essai écologique |
| 39 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder | Biographie |
| 40 | The Hemingses of Monticello | Annette Gordon-Reed | Histoire |
| 41 | The World Is What It Is | Patrick French | Biographie de V.S. Naipaul |
| 42 | The Return of Depression Economics | Paul Krugman | Essai économique |
| 43 | The Monster of Florence | Douglas Preston | True crime |
| 44 | The Numerati | Stephen Baker | Essai technologique |
| 45 | The Black Swan (réédition) | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Essai économique |
| 46 | The Outliers (précurseur, publié fin 2008) | Malcolm Gladwell | Essai sociologique |
| 47 | The Big Necessity | Rose George | Essai social |
| 48 | The Freedom Writers Diary (édition élargie) | Erin Gruwell | Témoignages |
| 49 | The Shock Doctrine (réédition) | Naomi Klein | Essai politique |
| 50 | The 10th Muse | Judith Jones | Mémoires culinaires |
Ce panorama montre la diversité de 2008 : dystopies jeunesse, fresques historiques, thrillers, essais politiques et économiques, ainsi que des romans expérimentaux comme 2666.
