Fresh Air's book critic looks back at a busy year and selects the books that linger in memory as the calendar page turns.
Her favorite fiction:
- Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs
- Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires
- Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster
- Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer
- Salley Vickers' The Other Side of You
- Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach
- Fred Vargas' Wash This Blood from My Hands
- Ann Patchett's Run
- Philip Roth's Exit Ghost
Nonfiction picks:
- A.M Homes' The Mistress' Daughter
- Clare Tomalin's Thomas Hardy
- Arnold Rampersad's Ralph Ellison: A Biography
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