Exit Light, Enter Night

1. The Rebel Sell: Why the culture can't be jammed, Joseph Heath & Andrew Potter
2. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
3. Rabbit, Run, John Updike
4. Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
5. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
6. Middlemarch, George Eliot
7. The Code of the Woosters, P. G. Wodehouse
8. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
9. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
10. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
11. Let Us Compare Mythologies, Leonard Cohen
12. The Sandman: The Wake, Neil Gaiman
13. The Sandman: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
14. The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
15. The Sandman: The Doll's House, Neil Gaiman

Perhaps it is cheating to be listing graphic novels on a booklist, but when the stories are as good as the ones I read (and The Sandman, for anyone who has not read it, falls into the category of so-good-it's-depressing-because-I-could-never-write-anything-even-remotely-as-good), I think a little license is allowed. I didn't include The Watchmen or V for Vendetta on last year's list, but this is a new year and I feel generous.