These are the books I read this year. Six thousand nine hundred and sixty one pages of bookish goodness, in order of recommendation (within each category)…
Fiction:
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Alphabet Weekends by Elizabeth Noble
Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
Until I Find You by John Irving
Non-Fiction:
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
The End of Overeating by David Kessler
Tell Me Where It Hurts by Nick Trout
Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
Currently reading: SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Up next: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
