2013

Two Cheers for Anarchism
James C. Scott

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan


2012

My Cat Spit McGee
Willie Morris

Day of the Locust/Miss Lonely Hearts
Nathaniel West

Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan

Maigret and the Bum 
Georges Simenon

The Third Reich (Paris Review serialization)
Roberto Bolano

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work 
Edwidge Danticat

Under Surge, Under Siege
Ellis Anderson

The Final Solution
Michael Chabon 

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
Harry Crews 

An Object of Beauty: A Novel
Steve Martin

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury  

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Cesar Aira

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick

You & Me
Padgett Powell 

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides 

William Alexander Percy:  The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Free Thinker
Benjamin E. Wise 

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis  

Shoplifting from American Apparel 
Tao Lin 

I Curse the River of Time
Per Petterson  






Interesting 2012 Books