{"id":381,"date":"2008-12-29T16:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=381"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:19","slug":"library-journals-best-books-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2008\/12\/29\/library-journals-best-books-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Journal&#8217;s Best Books 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Listen up, Barack Obama! You&#8217;ll find useful reading on LJ&#8217;s annual Best Books list, from Stephen Hess&#8217;s <em><em>What Do We Do Now? A Workbook for the President-Elect<\/em> <\/em>to Mahvish Rukhsana Khan&#8217;s<em> <em>My Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me<\/em> <\/em>and Raja Shehadeh&#8217;s<em> <em>Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape.<\/em> <\/em>It&#8217;s not all politics, though. From fiction debuts by Uwem Akpan, Nam Le, and Sa\u00c5\u00a1a Stani\u00c5\u00a1ic\u00c2\u00b4 to works from masters Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Marilynne Robinson, from a biography of Shakespeare&#8217;s wife to a chronicle of Sixties \u00e2\u20ac\u0153girls like us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and from accounts of divorce and madness to hot thrillers and cool how-to, this list has enough to occupy anyone for the coming year.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Complete list &#038; source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6620714.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library Journal Best of 2008<br \/>\n<\/a><strong><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"LJ Best Books 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/a330.g.akamai.net\/7\/330\/2540\/20081209131056\/www.libraryjournal.com\/articles\/images\/LJ\/20081208\/ljx081201bestbooks1.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Listen up, Barack Obama! You&rsquo;ll find useful reading on LJ&rsquo;s annual Best Books list, from Stephen Hess&rsquo;s What Do We Do Now? A Workbook for the President-Elect to Mahvish Rukhsana Khan&rsquo;s My Guant&Atilde;&iexcl;namo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me and Raja Shehadeh&rsquo;s Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape. It&rsquo;s not all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}