The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

Editor	Dave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume
Cover artist	Barry McGee
Language	English
Series	The Best American Nonrequired Reading
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
Followed by	The 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

Work	Source	Author
"Y"	Indiana Review	Marjorie Celona
"The White Train"	Virginia Quarterly Review	J. Malcolm Garcia
"The Dreamer Did Not Exist"	Oxford American	David Gessner
"Darkness"	Zoetrope	Andrew Sean Greer
"The Hotel Malogo"	Virginia Quarterly Review	Helon Haliba
"The Three Paradoxes"	The Three Paradoxes	Paul Hornschemeier
"Neptune's Navy"	The New Yorker	Raffi Khatchadourian
"Ayana"	The Paris Review	Stephen King
"Queen of the Scottish Fairies"	www.nytimes.com	Ruth Modan
"Searching for Zion"	Transition	Emily Raboteau
"Bill Clinton, Public Citizen"	GQ	George Saunders
"Cake"	The Kenyon Review	Patrick Tobin
"Where We Must Be"	Indiana Review	Laura van den Berg
"Pearls Before Breakfast"	The Washington Post	Gene Weingarten
"The Elegant Rube"	Open City	Malerie 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

External links

• The Best American Nonrequired Reading