The Notable Books List is published every March in Booklist magazine. This year, the list of nonfiction and fiction includes:
Nonfiction
American Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work By Nick Taylor
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: HD 5724 .T34 2008
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century By Steve Coll
Location: On Order
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals By Jane Mayer
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: HV 6432 .M383 2008
The Forever War By Dexter Filkins
Location: Main Level-Popular Reading Collection: DS 79.76 .F53 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto By Mark Harris
Location: Main Level-Popular Reading Collection: RA 784 .P643
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood By Mark Harris
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: PN 1993.5 U6 H37 2008
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War By Drew Gilpin Faust
On Order
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says about Us) By Tom Vanderbilt
Location: Main Level-Popular Reading Collection: TL 152.5 .V36 2008
Fiction
Atmospheric Disturbances By Rivka Galchen
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: PS 3607 .A4116 A94 2008
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories By Stephen Millhauser
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: PS 3563 .I422 D36 2008
The Plague of Doves By Louise Erdrich
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: PS 3555 .R42 2008
Unaccustomed Earth By Jhumpa Lahiri
Location: Stacks-Upper Level: PS 3562 .A316 U53 2008