Hudson Booksellers, which has 60 bookstores, sells books in more than 400 Hudson News newsstands in airports and transportation terminals and grosses $100 million in book sales, has selected its 2008 Best Books. The titles, which were selected by Hudson booksellers and managers and will be highlighted in Hudson stores starting December 1, are:
Book of the Year: When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Nonfiction:
The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs
Hot, Flat & Crowded by Thomas Friedman
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd
Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
The Way of the World by Ron Suskind
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Fiction:
The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
2666 by Roberto Bolano
All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison
The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Lush Life by Richard Price
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Best Children's:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Business Interest:
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder