The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
EditorDave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume
Cover artistBarry McGee
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Best American Nonrequired Reading
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Preceded byThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 
Followed byThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, a volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, was edited by Dave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume.[1][2] The works anthologized are selected by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan.[3][4][5]


Works included

WorkSourceAuthor
"Y"Indiana ReviewMarjorie Celona
"The White Train"Virginia Quarterly ReviewJ. Malcolm Garcia
"The Dreamer Did Not Exist"Oxford AmericanDavid Gessner
"Darkness"ZoetropeAndrew Sean Greer
"The Hotel Malogo"Virginia Quarterly ReviewHelon Haliba
"The Three Paradoxes"The Three ParadoxesPaul Hornschemeier
"Neptune's Navy"The New YorkerRaffi Khatchadourian
"Ayana"The Paris ReviewStephen King
"Queen of the Scottish Fairies"www.nytimes.comRuth Modan
"Searching for Zion"TransitionEmily Raboteau
"Bill Clinton, Public Citizen"GQGeorge Saunders
"Cake"The Kenyon ReviewPatrick Tobin
"Where We Must Be"Indiana ReviewLaura van den Berg
"Pearls Before Breakfast"The Washington PostGene Weingarten
"The Elegant Rube"Open CityMalerie Willens

Notes

  1. Eggers, Dave (editor), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2008.
  2. Upton, Nick. On my Nightstand, Concord Monitor, Dec. 21, 2008
  3. Committee, The Best American Nonrequired Reading. "The Best American Nonrequired Reading". Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  4. "Oh, yeah? The 'Best'? Says who?" Chicago Tribune Nov. 23, 2008
  5. "'Nonrequired Reading' isn't a should-read, it's an essential read." San Jose Mercury News


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