No lifelong favorites. The best classic fiction I've read this year: "Wuthering Heights". The best modern fiction I've read this year: "Geek Love" The best brain candy (easy-to-read fiction) I've read this year: Brandon Sanderson's "Stormlight Archive" The best long poems I've read this year: Tennyson's "Idylls of the King" and Elizabeth Browning's "Drama of Exile". The best literary nonfiction I've read this year: “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” or "Gathering Moss" The best informative nonfiction I've read this year: "Locust: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier"

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