Best Books of 1998

From a list selected by the editors of Booklist, a basic review journal used by librarians to select materials for libraries.

The Life of Thomas Merton by Peter Ackroyd

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende

Florence Harding: The First Lady, the Jazz age, and the Death of America's Most Scandalous President by Carl Anthony

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks

Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

The Children by David Halberstam

The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton

The Road Home by Jim Harrison

A Widow for One Year by John Irving

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso

This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann

Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy

Charming Billy by Alice McDermott

Evening by Susan Minot

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

The Pagoda by Patricia Powell

Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price

Freedomland by Richard Price

King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick

I Married a Communist by Philip Roth

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce by Douglas Starr

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson

Bech at Bay by John Updike

Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell

       

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