My pick: Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life by Michael Greenberg. Thanks to Kane Webb for including it in a compilation of thoughts from other Arkansans in today’s Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Some other books that I really enjoyed this year: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, Atlantic High: A Celebration by William F. Buckley Jr., The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish by Dave Kinney, and Renegade: The Making of a President by Richard Wolffe.