List of the books I've most enjoyed this year

(because I barely ever read books the year they're published, so this is a difficult time of the year)

• Alison Bechdel: Are You My Mother?
• Caitlín R. Kiernan: The Drowning Girl.
• Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
• Emma Donoghue: Room.
• Glen Duncan: The Last Werewolf.
• Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall.
• Mariko & Jillian Tamaki: Skim.
• Marlon James: The Book of Night Women.
• Patti Smith: Just Kids. 
• Sharon Kay Penman: The Sunne in Splendour.
• Sharon Kay Penman: When Christ and His Saints Slept.
• Tom Stoppard: Arcadia.