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mike247worldwide's "Lists of Books for 2008"

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The follow-up to LOB 2007. Leaving to Botswana with the Peace Corps in April. So it won’t be the 130-book killer of last year.

Probably…

  1. 1.
    Cities of the Plain
    by Cormac McCarthy
  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe
  6. 6.
    The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)
    by Tim O'Brien
  7. 7.
    Gentlemen of the Road [CD] (Audiobook) [UNABRIDGED]
    by Michael Chabon
  8. 8.
    How to Be Alone: Essays

  9. 9.
    The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
    by Kim Edwards
  11. 11.
    28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
    by Stephanie Nolen
  12. 12.
    This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
    by Drew Gilpin Faust
  13. 13.
    Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - or War
    by Mary B. Anderson
  14. 14.
    Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory
    by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
  15. 15.
    Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 3)
    by Alexander McCall Smith
  17. 17.
    The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
    by Paul Roberts
  18. 18.
  19. 19.
    How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
    by Walter Rodney
  20. 20.
    Chinese Proverbs (Little Books Series)
    by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
  21. 21.
    Africa in History
    by Basil Davidson
  23. 23.
    Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions
    by Daniel Wallace
  24. 24.
    ?
    Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
    by Robin Wright
  27. 27.
    Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates the End of Civilization
    by Lawrence E. Joseph
  30. 30.
    Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
    by Paul Theroux
  31. 31.
    The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
    by Christopher Hitchens
  32. 32.
    Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future
    by George B.N. Ayittey
  33. 33.
    Water for Elephants: A Novel
    by Sara Gruen
  34. 34.
    Future Shock
    by Alvin Toffler
  36. 36.
    Siddhartha

  37. 37.
    BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  38. 38.
    No Great Mischief: A Novel
    by Alistair MacLeod
  40. 40.
    In a Sunburned Country
    by Bill Bryson
  41. 41.
    Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit: A Climber's Life
    by Reinhold Messner
  42. 42.
    Cat on the Edge: A Joe Grey Mystery
    by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
  43. 43.
    Peoples Voice: Black South African Writing In the Twentieth Century
    by Piniel Viriri Shava
  44. 44.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  47. 47.
    I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
    by Sloane Crosley
  48. 48.
    Nervous Conditions [Import]
    by Tsitsi Dangarembga
  49. 49.
    Waterloo (Sharpe's Adventures, No. 11)
    by Bernard Cornwell
  50. 50.
    The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
    by David Shields
  51. 51.
    The Emperor
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  52. 52.
    The Blue Widows (Ben and Danielle)
    by Jon Land
  53. 53.
    Echo Burning (Jack Reacher)
    by Lee Child
  54. 54.
    The Soccer War
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski
  55. 55.
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    by Jeffrey Sachs
  56. 56.
    The Best of Roald Dahl
    by Roald Dahl
  57. 57.
    ?
  58. 58.
  60. 60.
    Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
    by Lewis B. Puller Jr.
  61. 61.
  62. 62.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier
  63. 63.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon
  64. 64.
    All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)
    by Madison Smartt Bell
  65. 65.
    Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
    by Paul Theroux
  66. 66.
    Cry of the Kalahari
    by Mark James Owens
  67. 67.
    The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
    by Mario Vargas Llosa
  68. 68.
    Black Skin, White Masks
    by Frantz Fanon
  69. 69.
    Call It Sleep
    by Henry Roth
  70. 70.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn
  71. 71.
    The Ant and the Elephant: Leadership For the Self
    by Vince Poscente
  72. 72.
    Into The Wild
    by Jon Krakauer
  74. 74.
    ?
    Bleachers
    by Grisham John
  76. 76.
    ?
    Jerry's Story by Kate Rutherford

  77. 77.
    ?
    Brothel by Alexa Albert

  78. 78.
    Lebanon: A House Divided
    by Sandra Mackey
  80. 80.
    ?
    The Return of History and the End of Dreams
    by Robert Kagan
  81. 81.
    The Crazed
    by Ha Jin
  84. 84.
    The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
    by Philip Zimbardo
  85. 85.
    Pigs in Heaven
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  86. 86.
    The Post-American World
    by Fareed Zakaria
  87. 87.
    Masire: Memoirs of an African Democrat
    by Quett Ketumile Joni Masire
  88. 88.
    ?
    A Case of Exploding Mangoes
    by Mohammed Hanif
  91. 91.
    What the Body Remembers: A Novel
    by Shauna Singh Baldwin
  92. 92.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  93. 93.
    ?
    The Source by James Michener

  94. 94.
    ?
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James
  95. 95.
    ?
  96. 96.
  97. 97.
    The Working Poor: Invisible in America
    by David K. Shipler
  98. 98.
    Emma's War
    by Deborah Scroggins
  99. 99.
    The Russian Concubine
    by Kate Furnivall
  100. 100.
    The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
    by Robert Calderisi
  101. 101.
    ?
    Pula Pula Pula

  102. 102.
    ?
  103. 103.
    Wizard of the Crow
    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  105. 105.
    Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
    by Per Petterson
  106. 106.
    Botswana Time
    by Randall Will
  107. 107.
    Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (P.S.)
    by Seymour M. Hersh
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