Magill's Literary Annual, 2008, is the fifty-third publication in a series that began in 1954. Each year, Magill's Literary Annual seeks to evaluate critically 200 major examples of serious literature, both fiction and nonfiction, published during the previous calendar year. Every essay is approximately four pages in length. This year's authors include Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, J.K. Rowling and J.R.R Tolkien