Thanks to everyone who responded on Facebook and Twitter yesterday to my “What was the best book you read this year?” (new or otherwise) query. The results:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Alchemist
The Art of Fielding
Augustus
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The Big Short (two responses)
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Butcher’s Crossing
Cutting for Stone
Empire of the Summer Moon
Everything’s Eventual
The Expectant Father
A Feast of Crows
Freedom (two responses)
The Hunger Games (three responses)
Juliet, Naked (two responses)
Lonesome Dove (two responses)
The Marriage Plot
Matterhorn
The Memory Chalet
Play Their Hearts Out
The Postmortal
Shantaram
The Sins of Brother Curtis
The Skystone
Soccernomics
A Storm of Swords
Sweet Hereafter
Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
Swing Your Sword
That Is All
The Third Option
Three and Out
The Tipping Point
Travels With Charley in Search of America
Truth in Comedy
Unbroken: A World War II Story
Visit From the Good Squad
The War for Late Night
We Die Alone
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman

I’ve read some of those (Freedom, The Postmortal, Tipping Point and Visit From the Goon Squad), and pretty much all interest me on some level.

Here’s what I think I’ll go with, though: The Big Short, Empire of the Summer Moon, Juliet, Naked, Matterhorn, Travels With Charley in Search of America and maybe Unbroken: A World War II Story.

That should take me through 2012, at least.