It's the end of the year and time for our annual Booktown readers panel's choice of their favorite books of the past year. The panelists' lists include:
John Deaderick
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks (Knopf)
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (W W Norton)
Cameron Cobden
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (Canongate)
Spook by Mary Roach (Norton)
They Poured Fire On Us from the Sky by Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng and Benjamin Ajak (Public Affairs)
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (Knopf)
Alison Jones-Pomatto
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Dial)
Confessions of a Gambler by Rayda Jacobs (
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (Viking)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (Penguin)
Away by Amy Bloom (Random House)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin Books)
Eric Tomb
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun (several editions)
Cesar Vallejo: The Complete Poetry edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman (University of California Press)
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein (Schocken)
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
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