It’s been a good year for books. I’ve been glutting myself on them for months: reissued forgotten classics with sentences so crisp you can hear them ringing out through the decades, sprawling new novels that made me laugh and sigh and weep, philosophical nonfiction that has me reaching for my pencil to scrawl thoughts and addenda in the margins. As I’ve read my way through, I have saved the very best just for you.  I already pulled out my favorites from the first half of the year for you in July, and I invite you to revisit it now to make this list comprehensive. For the second half...

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