I read more than I realized and I'm glad. A habit worth keeping. There were some disappointments: Edgar Sawtelle and Carse spring to mind, and some real pleasures: The New Measures, discovering Jon Hassler, and Don Paterson all stand out, and overall I read a bunch of good books. I see that I maintained about a 3 to 1 fiction to non-fiction ratio, and although I mean to balance that out in the future I'm not going to worry about it. I suppose it's still a reaction to years of reading mostly academic non-fiction.
* Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Work, Art, Sex and Death by Don Paterson
* The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
* Mohawk by Richard Russo
* A Green Journey by Jon Hassler
* Home by Marilynne Robinson
* The Love Hunter by Jon Hassler
* My Staggerford Journal by Jon Hassler
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
* Simon's Night by Jon Hassler
* Plainsong by Kent Haruf
* The Confidence Man by Melville
* Grand Opening by Jon Hassler
* Staggerford by Jon Hassler
* A Time Gone By by William Heffernan
* All or Nothing by Preston Allen
* South of the Pumphouse by Les Claypool
* The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse
* The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
* Clockers by Richard Price
* The Book Against God by James Wood
* The Gathering by Anne Enright* The Risk Pool by Richard Russo
* Mohawk by Richard Russo
* A Green Journey by Jon Hassler
* Home by Marilynne Robinson
* The Love Hunter by Jon Hassler
* My Staggerford Journal by Jon Hassler
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
* Simon's Night by Jon Hassler
* Plainsong by Kent Haruf
* The Confidence Man by Melville
* Grand Opening by Jon Hassler
* Staggerford by Jon Hassler
* A Time Gone By by William Heffernan
* All or Nothing by Preston Allen
* South of the Pumphouse by Les Claypool
* The Religious Case Against Belief by James P. Carse
* The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
* Clockers by Richard Price
* The Book Against God by James Wood
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
* Maigret in New York's Underworld by Georges Simenon
* The Dogs of Bedlam Farm by Jon Katz
* The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
* Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin
*The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by Dave Wroblewski
*The Man Who Invented Florida by Randy Wayne White
*Captiva by Randy Wayne White
*Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
*The Sand Cafe by Neil MacFarquhar
* Hubert's Freaks byGregory Gibson
* Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls
* Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
* Katz on Dogs by Jon Katz
* The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
* Dirty Work by Larry Brown
* The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by Simon and Burns
* Heyday by Kurt Andersen
* Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
* Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'nan
* The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted A. Smith
* Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
* On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Basho
* The Art of War by Sun Tzu
