The following list is in alphabetical order by author's name. The list includes fiction, nonfiction & poetry and is compiled from books read this past year. The writers are American unless otherwise noted:
1. Judd Apatow's "Sick in the Head - Conversations About Life & Comedy" Nonfiction
2. Paul Beatty's "The Sellout" awarded the Man Booker Prize
3. Alain de Botton "The Course of Love" Swiss author awarded The Fellowship of Schopenhauer
4. Michael Chabon "Moonglow" Memoir - Pulitizer Prize winning author
5. Maylis de Kerangal "The Heart" French author nominated for Concourt des Lyceens
6. Galway Kinnel "Strong is Your Hold" Poetry - Award Pulitzer Prize for Poetry & a Nat'l Book
Award winner
7. Dolan Ryan "All We Shall Know" Irish author nominated for the Man Booker Award
8. George Saunders "Lincoln at the Bardot" - Mann Booker winning author
9. Jesmyn Wards "Sing, Unburied Sing" awarded the Nat'l Book Award
10. E.B. White's novella on NYC "Here is New York" Pulitzer Prize Special Citation writer
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