**December is a time of anniversaries, when I reflect on what has gone before. My life feels like a series of novels, stories that reflect the depths and shallows, the highways and side roads of my experience. A large part of that consists of the books I read. Herewith is a list of books read this year with my rating, which simply expresses my current recollection of the experience.

Title	Author	✮
Talking Heads' Fear of Music (33 1/3)	Jonathan Lethem	4
Daddy Issues	Lindsay Marks	3
How Music Works Black, White, Blue	David Byrne William Swanson	5 5
Joseph Anton: A Memoir	Salman Rushdie	4
Canada	Richard Ford	5
The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3)	Richard Ford	5
Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)	Richard Ford	5
The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)	Richard Ford	5
A Universe from Nothing	Lawrence Krauss	5
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency	Parmy Olson	4
Patriots	David Frum	4
Schmidt Delivered	Louis Begley	5
Schmidt Steps Back	Louis Begley	5
Heroes and Monsters: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be Human	Josh James Riebock	1
Monday Mornings: A Novel	Sanjay Gupta	4
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power	Rachel Maddow	5
Gods Without Men	Hari Kunzru	4
Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue	Hugh Howey	3
Wool	Hugh Howey	5
An Available Man: A Novel	Hilma Wolitzer	5
Micro: A Novel	Michael Crichton/Richard Preston	0
Thinking, Fast and Slow	Daniel Kahneman	4
1Q84	Haruki Murakami	4