Best Book of the Year

I read a lot of good books this year.  But the best had to be Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (currently only $2.99 on the Kindle!). Here’s what I wrote about it:

The title characters are superbly drawn, leading me to hope that this novel will never be turned into a movie, for there is so much subtlety to their personalities, and my affections toward each of them rose and fell so many times, that a 3-act movie would be a supreme injustice to the Clark’s development of them. [READ THE REST]

Since a lot of us will be buying books over the next couple weeks, what’s the best book that you read this year?