Every year since 1993, I’ve compiled a list of favorite books read during the year to share with friends. So here, in no particular order, is my eighteenth annual recommended reading list. Happy reading!
- A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz (2008)
- The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk (1951)
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett (2009)
- I, Fatty, Jerry Stahl (2004)
- My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir (1911)
- One Good Turn, Kate Atkinson (2006) (I also recommend the followup, When Will There Be Good News.)
- About a Boy, Nick Hornby (1998)
- The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein (2008)
- The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (2002)
- Columbine, Dave Cullen (2009)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows (2008)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy (1866)
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson (2010)
2 Things @ Once 
Whew! I’ve already read 5 on the list so pressure is off. Sometimes I miss them all and never catch up. Have looked forward to this list several years now and have never been disappointed.
Thanks Raja!