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Top 40 Archive

Our bestsellers of years past.

2008

  1. Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortensen
  2. Cheese Deluxe, by Greg Palmer
  3. New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle
  4. Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
  5. Out Stealing Horses, by Per Pettersen
  6. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
  7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  8. Run, by Ann Patchett
  9. Away, by Amy Bloom
  10. Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
  11. The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
  12. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
  13. Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama
  14. The Shack, by William Young
  15. The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
  16. Water for Elephants, by Sarah Gruen
  17. Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, by Ed Hallowell
  18. Goodnight, Bush, by Erich Origen
  19. The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
  20. Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo
  21. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
  22. In the Woods, by Tana French
  23. Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
  24. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu
  25. The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman
  26. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
  27. Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
  28. Breakfast With Buddha, by Ron Merullo
  29. An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore
  30. Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
  31. The Space Between Before and After, by J.R. Page
  32. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman
  33. Suite Francaise, by Irene Nemirovsky
  34. Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  35. The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber
  36. The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones
  37. Triangle, by Katherine Weber
  38. Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics, by Ina Garten
  39. The Yiddish Policeman's Union, by Michael Chabon
  40. White Cascade, by Gary Krist