Here, in no particular order, is The Globe and Mail's annual Globe 100 best books of the year.
POETRY
Folk, by Jacob McArthur Mooney
Methodist Hatchet, by Ken Babstock
Origami Dove, by Susan Musgrave
Killdeer, by Phil Hall
CANADIAN FICTION
The Guardians, by Andrew Pyper
Don't Be Afraid, by Steven Hayward
By Love Possessed, by Lorna Goodison
Bride of New France, by Suzanne Desrochers
And Also Sharks, by Jessica Westhead
Into the Heart of the Country, by Pauline Holdstock
The Free World, by David Bezmozgis
Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Jamie Zeppa
Underground, by Antanas Sileika
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner
Quiver, by Holly Luhning
Our Daily Bread, by Lauren B. Davis
Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay
Dogs at the Perimeter, by Madeleine Thien
The Thirteen, by Susie Moloney
The Meagre Tarmac, by Clark Blaise
Miss New India, by Bharati Mukherjee
Monoceros, by Suzette Mayr
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt
Vital Signs, by Tessa McWatt
A World Elsewhere, by Wayne Johnston
Exit, by Nelly Arcan, translated by David Scott Hamilton
The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje
The Perfect Order of Things, by David Gilmour
The Antagonist, by Lynn Coady
Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
A Good Man, by Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Little Shadows, by Marina Endicott
Infrared, by Nancy Huston
The Time We All Went Marching, by Arley McNeney
FOREIGN FICTION
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín
Mr. Chartwell, by Rebecca Hunt
The Cardboard Valise, by Ben Katchor
Bullfighting, by Roddy Doyle
The Uncoupling, by Meg Wolitzer
Witches on the Road Tonight, by Sheri Holman
The Tragedy of Arthur, by Arthur Phillips
The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright
Before I Go to Sleep, by S.J. Watson
Long Time, No See, by Dermot Healy
A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
Disaster was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud, by Bruce Duffy
The Magician King, by Lev Grossman
The Grief of Others, by Leah Hager Cohen
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
The Emperor of Lies, by Steve Sem-Sandberg
The Great Leader: A Faux Mystery, by Jim Harrison, Anansi
The Stranger's Child, by Alan Hollinghurst
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel
Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, by A.S. Byatt
11/22/63, by Stephen King
NON-FICTION
The Memory Palace, by Mira Bartók
The Magnetic North, by Sara Wheeler, Farrar
Tiger, Tiger, by Margaux Fragoso
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War, by Annia Ciezadlo
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick
Tommy Douglas, by Vincent Lam
Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright – Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior, by Julie Wheelwright
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet, by Tim Flannery
Who Killed Mom?: A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality and Very Tacky Candles, by Steve Burgess
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing, by Diane Ackerman
The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death, by John Gray
Paying for It, by Chester Brown
The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, the Gang of Eight, and the Fight for Canada, by Ron Graham
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, by Andrew Westoll
Say Her Name, by Francisco Goldman
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, by Adam Hochschild
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, by Jon Ronson
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eagleman
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, by Carmen Aguirre
Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune, by Roderick and Sharon Stewart
Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, by Ian Leslie
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, by Judith Flanders
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India, by Siddhartha Deb
Taking My Life, by Jane Rule
Little Comrades, by Laurie Lewis
Arguably: Essays, by Christopher Hitchens
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug are Killing North America's Great Forests, by Andrew Nikiforuk
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt
Winter: Five Windows on the Season – the CBC Massey Lectures, by Adam Gopnik
MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus, by Art Spiegelman
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live, by Ray Robertson
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867 -1891 , by Richard Gwyn
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit, by JJ Lee
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill
The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945, by Ian Kershaw
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, by Susan Orlean
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You, by Misha Glenny
When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada, by Peter C. Newman