By popular demand (among my 6 readers) here is an attempt to list the best books of the year. This is tricky only because I read so many good books this year.
Best Fiction
The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
Daniel Stein, Interpreter, Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Best Nonfiction
Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick
Crazy, Pete Earley
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
Quiet, Susan Cain
The First Twenty Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds
Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn
One book earned an "honorable mention": Coming Out of the Ice by Victor Herman keeps coming to mind when I think of the best books. It was difficult to listen to because of the subject matter (imprisonment, torture, Siberian exile), but I still think about the book now, all these months later.
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