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The other day I e-mailed Harford County Public Library librarians and asked them what books they have read and would recommend as their choice for best books of 2008.

The following list is a partial list of the replies I received. Go to ReadersPlace to read the librarians' comments in full and some of the reviews the books garnered.

The List:
Nonfiction
Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation by John Carlin
Dewey: The Small-town Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Flory: A Miraculous Story of Survival by Flory A. van Beek
Wordy shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Mrs. Astor Regrets : the hidden betrayals of a family beyond reproach by Meryl Gordon
Home : a memoir of my early years by Julie Andrews
Fiction
The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Lady Elizabeth: a novel by Alison Weir
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Blasphemy by Douglas J. Preston
Lavinia by Ursula LeGuin
The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society: a novel by Beth Pattillo
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson