The best ten fiction books to this point, ranked in order, are these:
1. The Glass Rainbow - James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux series)
2. Dead Man's Walk - Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove series)
3. Nemesis - Philip Roth (novel)
4. Autumn of the Phantoms - Yasmina Khadra (Algerian detective fiction)
5. Standing at the Crossroads - Charles Davis (British novel)
6. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe (classic British novel)
7. To the End of the Land - David Grossman (literary novel from Israel)
8. Resolution - Denise Mina (crime fiction from Scotland)
9. Bad Intentions - Karin Fossum (crime fiction from Norway)
10. The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson - (British novel)
Even though I've only read 10 nonfiction titles so far, I will go ahead and rank them:
1. Wolf: The Lives of Jack London - James L. Haley (biography)
2. Hitch 22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens (memoir)
3. Chinaberry Sidewalks - Rodney Crowell (memoir)
4. We Were Not Orphans - Sherry Matthews (memoirs from a Texas home for neglected children)
5. Lincoln's Men - William C. Davis (Civil War history)
6. The Siege of Washington - John and Charles Lockwood (Civil War history)
7. A Widow's Story - Joyce Carol Oates (memoir)
8. Look Away Dixieland - James B. Twitchell (Civil War History)
9. Scorecasting - Tobias J. Moskowitz, Jon Wortheim (sports)
10.Heart of the City - Ariel Sabar (sociology)
I found last year that making this a "live" list results in a more meaningful (more accurate) list than I've come up with in previous years when I've waited until late December to start the process, so I'll be doing an update once a month or so.
Good deal. Im glad all of these books are new to me. I need a few new selections for myself and my blog.
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