Best nonfiction books of 2008

My Father’s Paradise
By Ariel Sabar (Algonquin, 352 pp., $25.95)
This moving memoir tells the story of journalist Ariel Sabar’s travels with his father to Iraq in an effort to understand his family roots in an ancient community of Iraqi Jews. (9/15/08)

Hot, Flat and Crowded
By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 448 pp., $27.95)
New York Times columnist and bestselling author Tom Friedman exhorts readers to unite to fight global warming and excess consumption. (9/22/08)

The Numerati
By Stephen Baker (Houghton Mifflin, 244 pp., $26)
Business Week writer Stephen Baker examines the way computers and data patterns are invading our lives. (10/1/08)

Factory Girls
By Leslie T. Chang (Spiegel and Grau, 420 pp., $30)
Former Wall Street Journal correspondent Leslie T. Chang offers a compelling portrait of China’s new working class. (10/6/08)

John Lennon: The Life
By Philip Norman (Ecco, 851 pp., $34.95)
Philip Norman’s biography wonderfully unfolds of Lennon’s life with all its talent, tenderness, and tragedy. (11/7/08)

The Journal of Hélène Berr
Translated by David Bellos (Weinstein Books, 307 pp., $24.95)
A newly published diary reveals a French counterpart to Amsterdam’s Anne Frank. (11/11/08)

Outliers
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co., 309 pp., $27.99)
Malcolm Gladwell examines the patterns in the lives ofextraordinary achievers. (11/17/08)

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