The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
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| editor = Dave Eggers and introduced by Judy Blume
| cover_artist = Barry McGee
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| language = English
| series = The Best American Nonrequired Reading
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| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
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| preceded_by = The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
| followed_by = The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
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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.Eggers, Dave (editor), The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2008.Upton, Nick. On my Nightstand, Concord Monitor, Dec. 21, 2008 The works anthologized are selected by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan.{{cite web|url=http://bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com/|title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading|first=The Best American Nonrequired Reading|last=Committee|publisher=|accessdate=9 November 2016}}"Oh, yeah? The 'Best'? Says who?" Chicago Tribune Nov. 23, 2008"'Nonrequired Reading' isn't a should-read, it's an essential read." San Jose Mercury News
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 |
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External links
- [http://www.bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com/ The Best American Nonrequired Reading]
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