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:
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