The good folks over at PopMatters just put up their annual Best Books feature. It’s got pages and pages of great fiction and non-fiction reads. The link is here, you can see what my selections were above.

Here are some other great runners-up that I read this year and highly recommend:

FICTION

• Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Cheng
• My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Phase Six by Jim Shepard
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

NON-FICTION

• World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
• Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City by Rosa Brooks
• Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia by Thomas Healy
• Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter
• Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
• Street Cop by Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman
• Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
• What Unites Us by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner