Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that Out Stealing Horses has been selected as an ALA Notable Book for 2008.  The Notable Books Council of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division American Library Association (ALA), today released its 2008 list of outstanding books for the general reader. The titles are selected for their significant contribution to the expansion of knowledge and for the pleasure they can provide to adult readers.
Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation's readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for the adult reader. The Council consists of members selected from the membership of RUSA's Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES).This is "The List for America's Readers:"
FICTION
•    Bloom,  Amy, Away, Random House
•    Carlson,  Ron, Five Skies, Penguin-Viking
•    Chabon,  Michael, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, HarperCollins
•    Clarke,  Brock, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, Algonquin
•    Clinch,  John, Finn: a novel, Random House
•    Englander,  Nathan, The Ministry of Special Cases, Knopf
•    Holthe,  Tess Uriza, The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes, Crown
•    Jones,  Lloyd, Mister Pip, Dell
•    McEwan,  Ian, On Chesil Beach, Nan A. Talese
•    Malouf,  David, Complete Stories, Pantheon
•    Pettersen,  Per, Out Stealing Horses, Graywolf
•    Trevor,  William, Cheating at Canasta, Penguin/Viking

 A complete list of Notable Books can be found on on the Notable Books Web page on the RUSA/ALA Web site (http://www.ala.org/rusa/notable.html).

Members of this year's committee are: Sara Maxine Taffae (Chair), State Library of Louisiana; Patricia L. Gregory (Vice-Chair), Saint Louis University; Alicia Kathryn Ahlvers, Kansas City Public Library; Raymond W. Barber, H. W. Wilson Company; Susie F. Brown; Shaker Heights Public Library; Hope Cockrell, Denton Public Library; Daniel J. Gillane, Lafayette Public Library; Steven Jablonski, Skokie Public Library; Nancy L. Pearl; A. Issac Pulver, Shaker Heights Public Library; Rhea Joyce Rubin, Rubin Consulting; Andrea J. Slonosky, Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus; Shawna Saavedra Thorup, Fayetteville Public Library; and Brenda Clark Wegener, Mercantile Library; with Brad Hooper, Booklist