I FAILED when it comes to reading this year. Every year I try to read 52 books. I’ve never come close. I think my record is 30 something. This year I’m not sure I even read 20 books. To be fair, I read mainly short stories nowadays anyway. 

Here are some of my favorite reads of 2011. This does not mean they came out in 2011, just that I read them in 2011.

Novel: The Keep By Jennifer Eagan

Non-fiction: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Note: Of course, this was the ONLY non-fiction book I read.

Short story collection: How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 

Book I started and wished I finished but probably wont because SHIT it’s David fucking Foster Wallace and that shit is dense: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

Lit Journal: Avery 6 

Note: I didn’t read many other journals complete from cover to cover and it helps that this one is alllllll fiction.

Least favorite book of the year: The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

Note: I hate shitting on books, but fuck it. This shit is a waste of your time.