(found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/)
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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
by Roy Blount Jr.
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Chagall: A Biography
by Jackie Wullschlager
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Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
by Timothy W. Ryback
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Fiction
by James Wood
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Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury
by Alison Light
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Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
by Stanley Plumly
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Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend
by Elizabeth Wilson
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The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
by John Stape
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A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
by Christopher Benfey
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White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
by Brenda Wineapple
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Hope and History: A Biography of Alfred Kazin
by Richard Cook
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
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Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
by Dennis McDougal
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life
by Paul Mariani
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
by Paula J. Giddings
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Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman
by Francine du Plessix Gray
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The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Andrew Lycett
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The Open Road: The Global Journey of the XIVth Dalai Lama
by Pico Iyer
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A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
by Tim Jeal
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The Triumph of FDR: The Life and Times of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by H.W. Brands
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Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
by James M. McPherson
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
by Patrick French
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The Ascent of Money
by Niall Ferguson
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High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
by Peter Gosselin
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Payback: Debt as Mental Construct and the Shadow Side of Wealth (CBC Massey Lecture)
by Margaret Atwood
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While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis
by Roger Lowenstein
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America and the World
by Zbigniew Brzezinski & Brent Scowcroft
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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
by Fred Kaplan
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Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq
by Jonathan Steele
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Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
by Gary J. Bass
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The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew Bacevich
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American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work
by Nick Taylor
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American Transcendentalism: A History
by Philip F. Gura
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Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First BlackCongressmen
by Philip Dray
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The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction
by Charles Lane
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Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
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Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
by Ian Kershaw
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Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
by Allen C. Guelzo
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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
by Peter Demetz
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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
by Scott E. Casper
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library)
by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
by Walter A. Mcdougall
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook
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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (American History)
by David S. Reynolds
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Audition: A Memoir
by Barbara Walters
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Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
by Ted Sorensen
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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
by Lorna Goodison
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Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
by Perri Knize
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