Best Adult Fiction 2008

I've decided to break down adult fiction by genre. Again, some of these categories are somewhat arbitrary, but I had to put them somewhere. My choice for the best in each category is designated by the book cover. (Again, these are the books I read in 2008, not those necessarily published in 2008.)

BEST ADULT FICTION 2008

SF/F

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007) - Michael Chabon
A Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess
Brittle Innings (1994) - Michael Bishop
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) - Philip K. Dick
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Kurt Vonnegut















Horror

Generation Loss (2007) - Elizabeth Hand
Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2007) - Ellen Datlow, ed.
Eternity and Other Stories (2005) - Lucius Shepard
The Search for Joseph Tully (1974) - William H. Hallahan
The Snowman’s Children (2002) - Glen Hirshberg
















Mystery

A Welcome Grave (2007) - Michael Koryta
The Killer Inside Me (1952) - Jim Thompson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005/2008) - Stieg Larsson
















General Fiction/Classics

Sunstroke and Other Stories (2007) - Tessa Hadley
Out Stealing Horses (2007) - Per Petterson
The Scarlet Letter (1850) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The New York Trilogy (1985, 1986) - Paul Auster
Like You’d Understand, Anyway: Stories (2007) - Jim Shepard