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Best Books of 1998From 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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