A few weeks ago, I thought I hadn't read anything good this year. However, as I went over my annual list of books I'd read, I was able to carve out a list of 10 stellar books. Read them if you can find them.
I read 74 books in 2012, of which 38 were nonfiction and 36 were fiction (the closest ratio I probably have ever read).
1) Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
2) The Eye in the Door, by Pat Barker
3) The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
4) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
5) The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6) Public Enemies, by Bryan Burrough
7) The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
8) Blood Done Sign My Name, by Timothy Tyson
9) The Book of Air and Shadows, by Michael Gruber
10) Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
I also enjoyed An American Childhood by Annie Dillard, The Boxer Rebellion by Diana Preston, Dead Run by Joe Jackson, Death Star by Michael Reeves and Steve Perry, Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.
