This year I made a conscious effort to read fewer books while also reading more widely, succeeding in both instances (bearing in mind that my definition of “fewer” is at least three standard deviations higher than normal. For what it’s worth, I’ve read about 320 books with ten more days to go in 2011.) The list of ten books – six fiction, four non-fiction – appear below, in alphabetical order, mostly because it was hard to pick a flat-out favorite book. (For brevity’s sake, my favorite crime novels appear elsewhere.) Fiction Alan Hollinghurst, THE STRANGER’S CHILD (Knopf) — not for […]