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I’m a junkie for year-end wrap-ups, especially if we’re talking books. I don’t usually compile a list of my own, because I’m so behind the times with my reading that most of my choices seem irrelevant. But I’ve had such good luck this year that I have to push my beloveds at you one last time, whether or not the book’s a new one. So here they are, in no particular order:

The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp is one of those sneakily complex stories in which the point lies almost entirely in the endi...