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The summing up of my reading for the year 2013 moves now from hard, cold statistics to content.  Here are my best of... lists.  Rather than ...

Barely a few pages into Andrei Makine's The Life of an Unknown Man (Trans. Geoffrey Strachan, Graywolf Press, 2012 ), I had a feelin...

And now, my favorite fiction reads of the year (excluding re-reads which are obviously already favorites). Toby's Room by Pat Barker ...

There is a blizzard headed our way here in the wilds of Ohio and I brought no boots.  Great!  I guess I will return to my end-of-year list...

Time for the annual best-of ritual.  I'm dividing my non-fiction category into life story forms (biography, memoir) and anything else.  ...

Of the 40-odd works of fiction I read in 2011 I'm going to name some favorites. I'm still working on Ben Lerner's Leaving t...

Now it is time for my annual best reads lists of 2011. I will choose from just two categories this year - fiction and non-fiction, beginni...

And finally... I have read 37 novels, novellas, or collections of stories written for adult readers in 2010, the bulk of my pleasu...

I hope everyone who celebrates christmas had a good one. Next year end list: books for young readers (YA fiction), a category I enjoy, but...

I will begin the list madness with my non-fiction reads for 2010. I read quite a bit of non-fiction this year. I have read 51 books so fa...

It’s the last day of the year, and you know what that means … nostalgia and looking back. What were your favorite books of the year? (Boo...

I finished Deirdre Madden's first novel, Hidden Symptoms, early this morning. Written in 1986, it displays many of the hallmarks of he...

Merry and Happy if christmas is your thing. All the whiteness in the midwest of the U.S. has been transformed to wetness, so it looks as th...

Moving on now to best mystery (and thriller) reads of 2009, I am surprised that I read as many as I did. There were 10, or 19% of the 52 bo...

Next in my end-of-year round-up is YA fiction, of which I didn't read very much this year. A quick look reveals just 4 titles, which is...

It's that time again when I look back over the year's reading and make best-of lists to review it for quality and suddenly get compe...

I was only joking about needing to overturn my best reads of 2008, good thing I didn't promise to eat my hat. I won't overturn m...

I have come to the hardest category in my personal best reads of 2008 - full-length fiction. I have read nearly 50 novels, not counting my ...

Today, I look back at the shorter fiction I read in 2008. I am going to include what I consider novellas as well as short story collecti...