The top 10 lists of my favorite books IÕve read each year, going back to 2005:

 

 

2009:

 

1. Memoir from Antproof Case - Mark Helprin

2. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University - Kevin Roose

3. The Sacredness of Questioning Everything - David Dark

4. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years - Don Miller

5. The Pacific and Other Stories - Mark Helprin

6. Dune - Frank Hebert

7. Return Policy - Michael Snyder

8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon

9. Starfire - Stuart Stockton

10. The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World - Alexander Roy

 

2008:

 

1. So Young, Brave, and Handsome - Leif Enger

2. Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

3. Watchmen- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

4. Cyndere's Midnight - Jeffrey Overstreet

5. Acedia and Me: Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life - Kathleen Norris

6. Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski

7. Freddy and Frederika - Mark Helprin

8. My Name is Russell Fink - Michael Snyder

9. Danny Gospel - David Athey

10. The Infinite Day - Chris Walley

 

 

2007:

 

1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susannah Clarke

2. Crazy '08, Cait Murphy

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J,K. Rowling

4. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

5. Auralia's Colors, Jeffrey Overstreet

6. The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon

7. Trackers, Kathryn Mackel

8. The Fireberd Trilogy, Kathy Tyres

9. The Legend of the Firefish, George Bryan Povlika

10. Fantasyland – Sam Walker

 

 

2006:

  1.   Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  2.   A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter Miller
  3.   The Sparrow – Maria Doria Russell
  4.   Children of God – Maria Doria Russell
  5.   Oxygen – Randall Ingermanson
  6.   The Fifth Man – Randall Ingermanson
  7.   Double Vision – Randall Ingermanson
  8.   Outriders – Kathryn Mackel
  9.   That Hideous Strength  - C. S. Lewis
  10.   On Beauty – Zadie Smith

 

 

2005

 

1.     Gilead – Marilynne Robinson

2.     EnderÕs Game – Orson Scott Card

3.     Peace Like a River – Lief Enger

4.     Silence – Shusaku Endo

5.     Three Nights in August – Buzz Bisinger with Tony LaRussa

6.     Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince  -  J.K. Rowling

7.     This is Not Civilization – Robert Rosenberg

8.     Wise Blood – Flannery OÕConnor

9.     Lost in Rooville – Ray Blackston

10.  I am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe