Here’s my annual list of what I read during the year. The three I found most memorable are Then We Came to the End, The Pillowman, and Made to Stick.

Travel Writing by Don George

Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse

Oleanna by David Mamet

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

Alls Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

Sun Stone by Octavio Paz, translated by Muriel Rukeyser

Time & Money by William Matthews

I am America (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Simon Armitage

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

Tartuffe by Moliere

Lust in Translation by Pamela Druckerman

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Futurist by James P. Othmer

Lord Weary’s Castle by Robert Lowell

The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick

Sea Grapes by Derek Walcott

Burnt Island by D. Nurkse

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy

Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge

How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Charcoal by Jasmine Dreame Wagner

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Sex at Noon Taxes by Sally Van Doren

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

The Niagara River by Kay Ryan

The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow

Jazz for Beginners by Ron David

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Introducing Jung by Maggie Hyde

Ghost on Fire by Michael Weller

Bucolics by Maurice Manning

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Wit by Margaret Edson

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute

Wieland, or the Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD

The Father by August Strindberg

The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee

Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

How to Read a Play by Ronald Hayman

Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill