My Green Man Books of 2008

Here are the books I listed for Green Man Review as my favorites of 2008, in the categories of SFF and comics. Nitpicky readers might note that these do not precisely line up with my "Favorites of the Year" post from this blog on the first of the year.

If you call it a contradiction, I'll only start quoting Whitman, and nobody wants that. So let's move on hastily to the list itself...

SFF:

• Iain M. Banks, Matter
  
• Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth
  
• Terry Pratchett, Nation
  
• Matthew Stover, Caine Black Knife
  
• Charles Stross, Saturn's Children
  
• Michael Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel
  
• Walter Jon Williams, Implied Spaces
  

Comics:

• Lynda Barry, editor, The Best American Comics 2008
  
• Holly Black & Ted Naifeh, The Good Neighbors, Book 1: Kin
  
• Joshua W. Cotter, Skyscrapers Of The Midwest
  
• Rick Geary, Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child
  
• Gilbert Hernandez, Speak of the Devil
  
• Scott McCloud, Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991
  
• Cyril Pedrosa, The Three Shadows
  
• Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole
  
• Dash Shaw, Bottomless Belly Button
  
• Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Good-Bye