Another year and another list of the books I read during the past 12 months. While I enjoyed many of the books, not many of them excited me, causing me to buy extra copies so I could force them into friends’ hands.

If was to do that, though, here are the ones that were my favorites:

Fiction: Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams, The People Who Watched Her Pass By by Scott Bradfield, and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Non-Fiction: Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Long for This World by Jonathan Weiner, Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive by Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein, and Steve J. Martin, and Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
Play: In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl
Poetry: Happy Life by David Budbill

Here’s the full list:

House of Holes by Nicholson Baker
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
The People Who Watched Her Pass By by Scott Bradfield
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Long for This World by Jonathan Weiner
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993 by Dennis Cooper
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
The Hot L Baltimore by Lanford Wilson
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
After Claude by Iris Owens
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Oranges by John McPhee
Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner and Dennis Longwell
This is How it Goes by Neil LaBute
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Happy Life by David Budbill
Old Times by Harold Pinter
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Marriage of Bette & Boo by Christopher Durang
Cloud Atlas by David MItchell
The Drunk in the Furnace by W.S. Merwin
A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
Time’s Power by Adrienne Rich
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
How to Improvise a Full-Lenght Play by Kenn Adams
Guest of Reality by Par Lagerkvist
Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive by Robert B. Cialdini, Noah J. Goldstein, and Steve J. Martin
In the Next Room or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
Desolation by Yasmina Reza
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace
Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchell
Art by Committee: A Guide to Advanced Improvisation by Charna Halpern
Seascape by Edward Albee
Busy Monsters by William Giraldi
Adult Head by Jeff Tweedy