Top 10s of 2008: New release films

- In Bruges (UK/USA)

- Juno (USA)
- El Orfanato (Spain)
- Gone Baby Gone (USA)
- Changeling (USA)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France)
- Hellboy 2 (USA)
- La Zona (Mexico/Spain)
- Persepolis (France/USA)
- Gomorra (Italy)

Top Tens of 2008: Non-Fiction

- Imperial Life in the Emerald City - Rajiv Chandrasekaran

- Vivir Para Contarla - Gabriel García Márquez
- The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
- Forgotten Continent, The Battle for Latin America's Soul by Michael Reid
- Jungle Capitalists by Peter Chapman
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende
- Vive La Revolution by Mark Steel
- The Bible, The Biography by Karen Armstrong
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Top Tens of 2008: Fiction

- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- The Stories of Paul Bowles
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
- Cocaine Nights by JG Ballard
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- We Are Now Beginning Our Descent by James Meek
- The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Serious Things by Gregory Normington

No particular order, but the three in bold were outstanding.

[I don't often read more than 12-15 novels each year, so a 'Top 10' list is a little artificial, but then I'm reasonably strict about pre-selection.]

2006 and 2007 lists here.