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~~Huntresss~~
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~~Huntresss~~ asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

IF you had to pick ONE book from 2008 to put into.....?

If you had to pick one book... one single book -- not series-- not saga-- not trilogy (although I guess it could be part of a series) to put into a time capsule as representative of our literature and reading habits... What would it be???

Update:

Twilight didn't come out in 2008 so it doesn't qualify.

Update 2:

It's interesting to not that so far.. only two books have more than one vote.. They are The Shack and Breaking Dawn..

Update 3:

It's Ok Scrapbook Queen I don't have to do it either i was just interested in what others thought would be representative of our popular culture.

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  • Audrey
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (the third book to my favorite series, The Inheritance Cycle). I just finished reading it last night and it was amazing! I can't wait for the last one of The Inheritance Cycle to come out!

  • Loki [Nanowrimoing!]
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    7th Harry Potter. That book teaches great morals, but I'm not sure it came out in '08...

    If not, I'd pick A Thousnad Splendid Suns or the Shack

  • Scrapbook Queen ♥
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Tough question.

    Something short, to the point, because that's how we are these days.

    Maybe something about the modern day family.

    I don't have an answer for you.

    Thank GOD I don't actually have to do this :P

  • fun.
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The Shack

    Yes it does include God, but overall its amazing and teaches a great lesson :)

  • anonymous
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Please don't discount this... I have to say Twilight, and not for the obvious reasons (I love Edward! I love Bella! etc.), but because it has been so popular the past few years, and turned into the next Harry Potter this year, especially with the movie coming out. I have seen everyone from ten-year-old girls to teenage boys to 60-year-old women buying this book and talking about it. So I pick Twilight, because it is the most talked-about book of 2008.

    Oh, and like Harry Potter, I have heard countless stories of how Twilight got non-readers to start reading. Any book with that power deserves a mention!

    Source(s): I'm a bookseller.
  • angie b
    1 decade ago

    Zane's book Skyscraper

  • EmCee
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Breaking Dawn, since that did come out in 2008.

    Source(s): yeah i said it.
  • threepeat
    1 decade ago

    the way i am

    -eminem autobiography

  • SHORTIE
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    my social studies book. idl that class so i could live with out it

    no offence 2 people who like s.s

  • lalalala
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    The Shack.

    It really is such an amazing book.

    (:

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