Every year, at the end of the year, I look back on all the books I have read the year before and list my favorites overall. This year, I again topped my 100 books in a year goal and made it to 123. The added bonus of this post is that you don’t have to bother to read any of my other posts over the course of the year.

There were ten five-star books this year:

And here’s the bulkier list of 24 books that I gave four-and-a-half stars: