I met my goal again this year of reading, on average, a book a week. I failed to review them all, which I predicted would happen after the first few ones, due to laziness and/or my ever growing ADD affliction.

Here are the top 10 books I liked best during the past year: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower, Truth in Comedy by Charn Halpern, Del Close and Kim Johnson, Stoner by John Williams, Guru: My Days With Del Close by Jeff Griggs, Nine Lives by J.D. Salinger, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, and The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.

And here’s the full list.

Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts by Jorie Graham
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
The Phaedo by Plato
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Airships by Barry Hannah
Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern, Del Close, and Kim “Howard” Johnson
Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
Autobahn by Neil LaBute
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Improvising Better by Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen
Stoner by John Williams
The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
Stitches by David Small
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
True Grit by Charles Portis
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
Our Late Night / A Thought in Three Parts by Wallace Shawn
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
Guru: My Days with Del Close by Jeff Griggs
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton
American Buffalo by David Mamet
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck by Charles Bukowski
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Nine Lives by J.D. Salinger
Play It Again, Sam by Woody Allen
Obscenities by Michael Casey
Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
Alcestis by Euripides
Kid by Simon Armitage
The American Dream by Edward Albee
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, edited by Jack Zipes
The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht
Brooklyn Boy by Donald Margulies
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thinch Nhat Hanh
Filthy Talk for Troubled Times by Neil LaBute
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
The Empty Space by Peter Brook
The Break of Noon by Neil LaBute

Please feel free to let me know in the comments your favorite reads of the past year. Thank you.