Here is the list of books I read this year (in the order I read them with the particularly great ones in bold, also shown in the banner above):

1. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
2. Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toews
3. The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
4. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
5. A Boy of Good Breeding  by Miriam Toews
6. The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
7. Born for This by Chris Guillebeau
8. En Recuerdo de: The Dying Art of Mexican Cemeteries in the Southwest by Bruce F. Jordan
9. As Aways, Julia by Julia Child and Avis Devoto
10. Journey through an Arid Land by G. Davies Jandrey
11. Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
12. The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
13. Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
14. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
15. A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
16. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
17. The Rabbit Back Literature Society  by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
18. Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
19. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux
20. Deep South by Paul Theroux
21. Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
22. The Empty Mirror by Janwillem van de Wetering
23. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
24. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
25. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
26. The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau
27. Arizona Kicks on Route 66 by Roger Naylor
28. The Land of Open Graves by Jason De León
29. My Life in France by Julia Child
30. Alaska by James Michener
31. The Litigators by John Grisham
32. At the Water’s Edge by Sara Gruen
33. The Racketeer by John Grisham
34. Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
35. Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry
36. The Oath by Jeffrey Toobin
37. A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
38. Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
39. American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
40. Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure edited by Hal Espen
41. The Best American Travel Writing 2006 by Tim Cahill (Editor)
42. The Backbone of the World by Frank Clifford
43. Where the Waters Divide by Karen Berger and Daniel R. Smith
44. Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton
45. Dear Data by by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
46. Crossing the Yard by Richard Shelton
47. Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
48. That Distant Land by Wendell Berry
49. Andy Catlett by Wendell Berry
50. Whitefoot by Wendell Berry
51. A Place in Time by Wendell Berry
52. The Whistler by John Grisham
53. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

As usual, there were several authors I read several books by — Miriam Toews, Julia Child, Paul Theroux, Wendell Berry. The Berry books were particularly special, and I finished the last of his fiction that I hadn’t read earlier. (I’d been saving them up, and it was a nice way to finish the year.)