Best Books of 1988

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"The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
"The Good Old Days": The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders 4.03 avg rating β€” 653 ratings
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Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History
Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History 3.74 avg rating β€” 137 ratings
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A Pride of Princes (Chronicles of the Cheysuli, #5)
A Pride of Princes (Chronicles of the Cheysuli, #5) 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,699 ratings
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 3.99 avg rating β€” 10,807 ratings
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Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0)
Neverness (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #0) 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,727 ratings
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Dark Fire (McCalls, #2)
Dark Fire (McCalls, #2) 3.75 avg rating β€” 909 ratings
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Metaphysics in the Midwest
Metaphysics in the Midwest 3.65 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II 4.51 avg rating β€” 9,537 ratings
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist 3.92 avg rating β€” 3,430,313 ratings
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Solitude: A Return to the Self
Solitude: A Return to the Self 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,287 ratings
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 3.65 avg rating β€” 28,182 ratings
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You're Under Arrest: I'm Not Kidding
You're Under Arrest: I'm Not Kidding 4.08 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms
An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms 4.24 avg rating β€” 434 ratings
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A Speedy Death (Mrs. Bradley, #1)
A Speedy Death (Mrs. Bradley, #1) 3.50 avg rating β€” 1,340 ratings
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The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders 3.93 avg rating β€” 3,029 ratings
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Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America
Old Money: The Mythology of Wealth in America 3.76 avg rating β€” 126 ratings
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The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour 4.33 avg rating β€” 9,536 ratings
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A Shared Dream (Dreams, #1-2)
A Shared Dream (Dreams, #1-2) 3.99 avg rating β€” 834 ratings
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The Book of J
The Book of J 3.77 avg rating β€” 748 ratings
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The Story of the Stone (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #2)
The Story of the Stone (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #2) 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,989 ratings
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The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer
The Collected Plays of Peter Shaffer 4.59 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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A Vision of Light (Margaret of Ashbury, #1)
A Vision of Light (Margaret of Ashbury, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 3,138 ratings
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The Toynbee Convector
The Toynbee Convector 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,858 ratings
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Extra Yarn
Extra Yarn 4.11 avg rating β€” 19,960 ratings
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The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance 3.93 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Variations on Night and Day
Variations on Night and Day 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,564 ratings
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The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies
The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies 4.05 avg rating β€” 4,176 ratings
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Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1) 3.94 avg rating β€” 12,373 ratings
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Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain, #5)
Dead Crazy (Jenny Cain, #5) 3.65 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
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Dusk and Other Stories
Dusk and Other Stories 3.93 avg rating β€” 1,809 ratings
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The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge
The Four Seasons of Brambly Hedge 4.57 avg rating β€” 742 ratings
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The Lords of Vaumartin
The Lords of Vaumartin 3.64 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating β€” 4,178 ratings
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Selections from the First Two Issues of the New York Review of Books
Selections from the First Two Issues of the New York Review of Books 3.75 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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Being a Woman: Fulfilling Your Femininity and Finding Love
Being a Woman: Fulfilling Your Femininity and Finding Love 3.79 avg rating β€” 284 ratings
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The Mermaid Summer
The Mermaid Summer 3.84 avg rating β€” 423 ratings
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Annabel's House
Annabel's House 4.35 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Thornyhold
Thornyhold 3.86 avg rating β€” 7,742 ratings
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Fool on the Hill
Fool on the Hill
by: Matt Ruff
4.10 avg rating β€” 4,887 ratings
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Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays
Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays 4.26 avg rating β€” 387 ratings
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The Silence in the Garden
The Silence in the Garden 3.68 avg rating β€” 413 ratings
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But That Was Yesterday
But That Was Yesterday 4.12 avg rating β€” 68 ratings
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The Girl in the Box
The Girl in the Box 3.65 avg rating β€” 1,086 ratings
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May I Borrow Your Husband
May I Borrow Your Husband 3.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan 4.07 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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Local Hero
Local Hero 3.91 avg rating β€” 4,341 ratings
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Great Pianists Speak for Themselves Volume 2
Great Pianists Speak for Themselves Volume 2 3.50 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Molly, #5)
Molly Saves the Day: A Summer Story (American Girls: Molly, #5) 4.02 avg rating β€” 4,110 ratings
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Modern Ireland, 1600 - 1972
Modern Ireland, 1600 - 1972 3.73 avg rating β€” 508 ratings
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Selected Stories of Andre Dubus
Selected Stories of Andre Dubus 4.27 avg rating β€” 3,047 ratings
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In Praise of the Stepmother
In Praise of the Stepmother 3.43 avg rating β€” 9,831 ratings
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Masterclass
Masterclass 3.66 avg rating β€” 243 ratings
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The Crystal Warriors (Crystal, #1)
The Crystal Warriors (Crystal, #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies
John Kobal Presents the Top 100 Movies 3.78 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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Anything for Billy
Anything for Billy 3.60 avg rating β€” 3,797 ratings
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The Poverty of Communism
The Poverty of Communism really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Koala Lou
Koala Lou
by: Mem Fox
4.09 avg rating β€” 2,116 ratings
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Ghost King (Stones of Power, #1)
Ghost King (Stones of Power, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,252 ratings
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Lapse of Time
Lapse of Time
by: Wang Anyi
3.89 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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A Voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician
A Voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Homesman
The Homesman 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,295 ratings
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Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great
Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great 3.88 avg rating β€” 146 ratings
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode 3.91 avg rating β€” 521 ratings
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Veronika Decides to Die
Veronika Decides to Die 3.73 avg rating β€” 237,034 ratings
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All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture 3.94 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
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The Lives of John Lennon
The Lives of John Lennon 3.35 avg rating β€” 1,697 ratings
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Polonaise
Polonaise 3.40 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance: Heroes, #1)
The Legend of Huma (Dragonlance: Heroes, #1) 4.05 avg rating β€” 19,930 ratings
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Psycho Beach Party
Psycho Beach Party 3.55 avg rating β€” 125 ratings
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Quoi ? L'EternitΓ©
Quoi ? L'EternitΓ© 4.07 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
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Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth 4.45 avg rating β€” 165 ratings
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A Christmas Guest
A Christmas Guest really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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50 Below Zero
50 Below Zero 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,719 ratings
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My Favorite Time of Year
My Favorite Time of Year 4.16 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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The History of Danish Dreams
The History of Danish Dreams 3.51 avg rating β€” 1,372 ratings
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Alicia: My Story
Alicia: My Story 4.14 avg rating β€” 11,729 ratings
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Graveyard Shift, and Other Stories from Night Shift
Graveyard Shift, and Other Stories from Night Shift 3.89 avg rating β€” 4,908 ratings
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Kitchen
Kitchen 3.90 avg rating β€” 121,491 ratings
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Opere I
Opere I it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Whale's Footprints
The Whale's Footprints 3.72 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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The Keeping Quilt
The Keeping Quilt 4.40 avg rating β€” 9,179 ratings
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The Coming of the King (Books of Merlin, #1)
The Coming of the King (Books of Merlin, #1) 3.28 avg rating β€” 574 ratings
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River Writing: An Eno Journal (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
River Writing: An Eno Journal (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets) 3.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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A Viagem a Roma
A Viagem a Roma 3.24 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 4.38 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter
The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter 4.01 avg rating β€” 268 ratings
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Journey
Journey 3.86 avg rating β€” 3,349 ratings
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Shirot Bialik: A New and Annotated Translation of Chaim Nachman Bialik's Epic Poems (Hebraica/Judaica Bookshelf) (English and Hebrew Edition)
Shirot Bialik: A New and Annotated Translation of Chaim Nachman Bialik's Epic Poems (Hebraica/Judaica Bookshelf) (English and Hebrew Edition) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating β€” 23,236 ratings
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The High Road
The High Road 3.37 avg rating β€” 150 ratings
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating β€” 580 ratings
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Plugged Nickel
Plugged Nickel 3.59 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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When I Sleep Then I See Clearly
When I Sleep Then I See Clearly
by: J.V. Foix
4.06 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Gender and the Politics of History
Gender and the Politics of History 3.84 avg rating β€” 520 ratings
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Murder at the Gardner (Homer Kelly, #7)
Murder at the Gardner (Homer Kelly, #7) 3.66 avg rating β€” 342 ratings
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If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems
If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems 4.29 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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Dien Cai Dau
Dien Cai Dau 4.32 avg rating β€” 898 ratings
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A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont, #6)
A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont, #6) 4.03 avg rating β€” 5,379 ratings
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Philip Larkin: Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (17-Feb-2003) Paperback
Philip Larkin: Collected Poems by Philip Larkin (17-Feb-2003) Paperback 4.21 avg rating β€” 8,947 ratings
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