what would the elastic week between christmas and new year’s be without yet another best of list? now, presented without rants, is a bulleted list in no particular order of my favorite books I read this year. not my favorite books that came out this year — just that I read from january to december. expect to find more than one title over 50 years old. there are also some books on my december list that I haven’t shared yet.

• The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

• Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

• The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf by Kathryn Davis

• Calculation of Volume books by Solvej Balle

• Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park

• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

• Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

• The Director by Daniel Kehlmann

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

• Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

what were your favorite books this year? I’d love to know — send me yours too!