Lists of Bests: mike247worldwide's "Lists of Books for 2008"

Send to Printer mike247worldwide's "Lists of Books for 2008" 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…
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	1.		Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
	2.		Things Fall Apart: A Novel by Chinua Achebe
	3.		Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors (Penguin Modern Classics) by Susan Sontag
	4.		Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa by Robert Klitgaard
	5.		Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon by John Brant
	6.	?	Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)
	7.		Gentlemen of the Road [CD] (Audiobook) [UNABRIDGED] by Michael Chabon
	8.		How to Be Alone: Essays
	9.		The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
	10.		Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer
	11.		28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen
	12.		This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
	13.		Do No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace - or War by Mary B. Anderson
	14.		Sweatshop Warriors : Immigrant Women Workers Take On the Global Factory by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
	15.		Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Paperback)) by Alexander McCall Smith
	16.		AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care) by Paul Farmer
	17.		The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts
	18.		The Best American Travel Writing 2007 (The Best American Series)
	19.		How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
	20.		Chinese Proverbs (Little Books Series) by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
	21.		Africa in History by Basil Davidson
	22.		The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
	23.		Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace
	24.	?	Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright
	25.		The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (The Best American Series)
	26.	?	The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda by Yaroslav Trofimov
	27.		Apocalypse 2012: An Optimist Investigates the End of Civilization by Lawrence E. Joseph
	28.		Taking Away the Distance: An African AIDS Orphan and His Crusade to Unite Children Orphaned by the Epidemic by Miles Roston
	29.	?	Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman
	30.		Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
	31.		The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer
	32.		Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B.N. Ayittey
	33.		Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
	34.		Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
	35.	?	And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts
	36.		Siddhartha
	37.		BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS by Kurt Vonnegut
	38.		No Great Mischief: A Novel by Alistair Macleod
	39.		The Big Questions: A Buddhist Response to Life's Most Challenging Mysteries by Lama Surya Das
	40.		In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
	41.		Reinhold Messner, Free Spirit: A Climber's Life by Reinhold Messner
	42.		Cat on the Edge: A Joe Grey Mystery by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
	43.		Peoples Voice: Black South African Writing In the Twentieth Century by Piniel Viriri Shava
	44.		The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
	45.		Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
	46.	?	A Few Days More--: The Story of a Young Woman Living with HIV in Botswana by Anna Koblanck
	47.		I Was Told There'd Be Cake by Sloane Crosley
	48.		Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
	49.		Waterloo (#11) (Sharpe's Adventures) by Bernard Cornwell
	50.		The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields
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