This is the time of year when many of my friends post a list of the millions of books they've read in the last year. It feels like I don't read nearly as much as my friends do (and much less than I used to), but I can still post the top five (or so) books I read in a few different categories:
Adult nonfiction:
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion / Greg Boyle The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements / Same Kean Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks / Ken Jennings Pasta by Design / George Liaropoulos-Legendre The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World / Steven Johnson
Adult fiction:
Redshirts / John Scalzi The Five Books of Jesus / James Goldberg Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch / Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Young adult / children's / picture books:
The True Meaning of Smekday / Adam Rex Tuesdays at the Castle / Jessica Day George Dot / Patricia Intriago The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits / Lewis Carroll and Oleg Lipchenko To Every Thing There Is a Season: Verses from Ecclesiastes / Leo Dillon