2011:
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam (and shouldn’t this be the name of a cocktail?)
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
The Sky is Everywhere, Jandy Nelson
2012:
The Fallback Plan, Leigh Stein
Bats Out of Hell, Barry Hannah
Airships, Barry Hannah
And When She Was Good, Laura Lippman
Spillover, David Quammen
I guess 2012 was the year I went minimalist, but I cannot fathom why I didn’t include I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck on here. Maybe I was too emotionally scarred.
2013:
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Likeness, Tana French
Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
2014:
American Elsewhere, Robert Jackson Bennett
Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill
Others of My Kind, James Sallis
The Fever, Megan Abbott
The Word Exchange, Alena Graedon
