2008

CHANGE & INSPIRATION
The Good, Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, Sy Montgomery
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Daniel H. Pink
           
Exile
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures, Kyoko Mori
An Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel, Dave Eggers
           
Getting Graphic
American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
Blankets, Craig Thompson
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
Persepolis I and II, Marjane Satrapi
           
Media & Message
Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, David Kline & Dan Burstein
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes, Sharon Lamb & Lyn Mikel Brown
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff
Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, David Shipley & Will Schwalbe

A Year of…
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America'sTop High School Chess Team, Michael Weinreb
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion