What Are Your Favorite Books of the Year?

"I'm trying to scratch multiple itches with my list. I realize that if slight different, I know it's going to shock you," he says. "The books that made me happiest while reading them is not this list because I am messed up and not a well person ... That's the one that's easiest for me to understand." He adds: "Most of those kinds of book experiences are not the things that will show up on an end of the year list"