Book Recommendations

P-I Gift Guide: Great books for kids: If your holiday gift list includes children–toddlers through teens–the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has some suggestions for you.

The 10 Best Books of 2008 – NYTimes.com: The editors of the New York Times Book Review have pared the list of 100 Notable Books down to these 10, 5 fiction and 5 nonfiction.

Best nonfiction books of 2008 | csmonitor.com: The Christian Science Monitor‘s list.

Best novels of 2008 | csmonitor.com: From The Christian Science Monitor.

Best Books of 2008 : NPR: This list includes links to recommendations of books in many categories, including fiction, foreign fiction, politics and current events, cookbooks, crime and mystery novels, and National Book Award Winners.

The Big Pictures: Best Gift Books 2008 : NPR: NPR (National Public Radio) weighs in with some gift suggestions, with the following warning: “A few of the gorgeous tomes below tip into the 20-pound range, so to give you a sense of what you might be lugging and/or mailing, we’ve included the physical attributes of

Just as holiday decorations appear earlier and earlier every year, The New York Times is getting an early start on making its gift-giving suggestions. So, with all proper fanfare, here are some of its lists: 100 Notable Books of 2008 This is the first page of a multi-page listing of books in the categories of