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

2012

1. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline

2. REAMDE – Neal Stephenson

3. How to Save a Life – Sara Zarr

4. The Chosen – John G. Hartness

5. The Bone House – Stephen Lawhead

6. Out of My League – Dirk Hayhurst

7. Bloodring – Faith Hunter

8. Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball – R.A. Dickey

9. World Leader Pretend – James Bernard Frost

10. The Anubis Gates – Tim Powers

2011

1. The Confusion – Neal Stephenson

2. The System of the World – Neal Stephenson

3. The Ale BoyÕs Feast – Jeffrey Overstreet

4. Beauty Will Save the World – Greg Wolfe

5. Quicksilver – Neal Stephenson

6. Swamplandia – Karen Russell

7. Assassination Vacation – Sarah Vowell

8. The Skin Map – Stephen Lawhead

9. The Inverted Forest – John Dalton

10. Gringo Nightmare – Eric Volz

2010

1. A Soldier of the Great War- Mark Helprin

2. Anathem – Neal Stephenson

3. The Lunatic Express – Carl Hoffman

4. Home – Marilynne Robinson

5. RavenÕs Ladder – Jeffrey Overstreet

6. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan

7. Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry

8. Postively Fifth Street – James McManus

9. Salvation on Sand Mountain – Dennis Covington

10. Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction – Rodney Clapp

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

2004

1. China Lake – John Dalton

2. Blankets – Craig Thompson

3. Drummer in the Dark – Davis Bunn

4. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

5. The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson

6. The Dew Breaker - Elridge Dandicant

7. The Life of Pi – Yann Martel

8. A Delirious Summer – Ray Blackston

9. Welcome to Fred – Brad Whittington

10. The Last Disciple – Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaf

2003

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon

2. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

3. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

4. Winner Take All – Davis Bunn

5. Fever Pitch – Nick Hornby

6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling

7. Flabbergasted – Ray Blackston

8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K Rowling

9. Blue Like Jazz – Don Miller

2002

1. Peace Like a River – Leif Enger

2. White Teeth – Zadie Smith

3. RomeyÕs Place – James Schaap

4. Pastoralia – George Saunders

5. The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

6. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K Rowling

7. The Great Divide - Davis Bunn

8. The Light Fantastic – Terry Pratchett

9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling

10. Portofino – Franky Schaeffer

2001

1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy – J.R.R Tolkien

2. The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien

3. Foreign Bodies – Hwee Hwee Tan

4. The Mystic Rose – Stephen Lawhead

5. Safely Home – Randy Alcorn

6. The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett

7. Harry Potter and the SorcererÕs Stone – J.K Rowling

8. Ashes on the Wind – John Fischer

2000

1. Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

2. Edge of Eternity – Randy Alcorn

3. Why the Cross Can Do What Politics CanÕt – Erwin Lutzer

4. The Iron Lance – Stephen Lawhead

5. The Doctrines that Divide – Erwin Lutzer

Pre - 2000:

1. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

2. The Song of Albion trilogy – Stephen Lawhead

3. Byzantium – Stephen Lawhead

4. Creation Regained – Albert Wolters

5. Making Real What I Already Believe – John Fischer

6. The Pendragon Cycle – Stephen Lawhead

7. The Screwtape Letters – C.S Lewis

8. The Sum of All Fears – Tom Clancy

9. The Last Days According to Jesus – R.C Sproul

10. Mere Christianity – C.S Lewis