The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
# The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008

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. The works anthologized are selected by high school students in California and Michigan through 826 Valencia and 826michigan.

## 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 |
