For the past three years, readers of this website have kindly sent in their choices of books they’ve particularly enjoyed over the previous 12 months. I’ve then compiled the list and posted it at the end of December in 2009, 2010, and 2011. The result has been a list of widely varying fiction and nonfiction books that has been a useful reference for many of us.
As I ask for favorite reads this year, here are a few guidelines that may help in drawing your list and in making my compilation easy:
