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Monday, 22 December 2008

My books of the year

It's that time of year again. Here's a list of the 10 books I most enjoyed reading in 2008, though not all of them were published this year. They're listed roughly in the order in which I read them - not of preference - and the hyperlinks will take you to the posts where I discussed them:

The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God by Jerry White
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
Hillary's Turn: Inside Her Improbable, Victorious Senate Campaign by Michael Tomasky

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