Bookmarks' Best Books of 2008

Occasionally I will buy Bookmarks' magazine to find my next entertaining read. I like to travel with a book review magazine; it helps when I lack the concentration for a novel. The only gripe I have is there should be more reviews for the science fiction section. For the closing of 2008 Bookmarks has compiled a list of their staff's favorites, which were reviewed earlier in the year. 
The List:
Fiction

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Netherland by Joseph O'Neil

Lush Life by Richard Price

Dear American Airline by Jonathan Miles

Last Night at the Lobster by Steward O'Nan

Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey

Zeroville by Steven Erickson

Sway by Zachary Lazar

The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

The Theory of Clouds by Stéphane Audeguy 

Trespass by Valerie Martin

The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa 

The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner 

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski

Signed, Mata Hari by Yannick Murphy

The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin

Say You're One of Them by Uwen Akpan

The Boat by Nam Le

The Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber 

Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina

Winter Study by Nevada Barr

The Legal Limit by Martin Clark

One for Sorrow by Christopher Barzak (planning to read soon)

An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham

Nonfiction

Soldier's Heart by Elizabeth D. Samet

The Good Rat by Jimmy Breslin

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee

Apples & Oranges by Marie Brenner

The Eaves of Heaven by Andrew X. Pham

Counselor by Ted Sorensen

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Journals by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre

The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick

Retribution by Max Hastings

This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker

The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson

A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez

Your Inner Fish by Beil Shubin

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku