These are the books I’ve read this year…

NonFiction

• The Antidote:  Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman (2012)
• Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges (2009)
• My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read and Shop edited by Ronald Rice
• More Baths Less Talking by Nick Hornby (2012)
• What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel (2102)
• Soccer vs. The State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn (2011)
• Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg (2011)
• Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (2009)

Books on Writing

• The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life by Dinty W. Moore (2012)
• On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner (1983)
• Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice by Laraine Herring (2007)
• One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft by Susan M. Tiberghien (2007)

Fiction

• House of Holes by Nicholson Baker (2011)
• The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos (2012)
• Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks (2011)
• A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers (2012)
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)
• The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (2009)
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (2009)
• Say Nice Things About Detroit by Scott Lasser (2012)
• The Odds by Stewart O’Nan (2012)