Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Books I Read in 2013


My goal for 2013 was to read 65 books. I hit that goal in September so I added another 20 books to the goal. I ended up reading 88 books this year when all was said and done.

Top 10 Personal Favorites I Have Read This Year (Fiction and Non-Fiction):
  1. All the Dresden Files books I've read so far - Jim Butcher 
  2. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  3. Fault in Our Stars - John Green
  4. All the Sookie Stackhouse books I've read so far - Charlaine Harris 
  5. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple 
  6. Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green
  7. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) - George RR Martin
  8. The Help - Kathryn Stockett 
  9. Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobosky
Each category is in order of when I read it...

Bold means I now own it in book form. Italics means I own it in Kindle ebook form.

Fiction Awesome:
  • Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 
  • Proven Guilty (Dresden Files #8) - Jim Butcher 
  • Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
  • Fault in Our Stars - John Green
  • The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Dead until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1) - Charlaine Harris
  • The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) - Rick Riordan
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple 
  • Memoirs of An Imaginary Friend - Matthew Dicks
  • White Night (Dresden Files #9) - Jim Butcher 
  • The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) - Philip Pullman 
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson - John Green
  • Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles #1) - Kami Garcia
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1) - Arthur Ransome
  • Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
  • A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3) - George RR Martin
  • The Help - Kathryn Stockett
  • The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3) - Rick Riordan
  • The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Living Dead Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse #2) - Charlaine Harris
  • City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
  • Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobosky
  • The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3) - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 
  • Deadly Heat - Richard Castle
  • Coraline - Neil Gaiman 
  • Small Favor (Dresden Files #10) - Jim Butcher
Non-Fiction Awesome:
  • How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer
  • The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History -
Fiction Recommended:
  • M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman (Short Stories)
  • The Day the Falls Stood Still - Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 
  • The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories - Rudyard Kipling
  • Dolan's Cadillac and Other Stories - Stephen King 
  • The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2) - Eoin Colfer 
  • Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
  • The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) - Philip Pullman
  • The Paris Wife - Paula McLain 
  • Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  • Watership Down - Richard Adams  
  • Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut 
  • Paper Towns - John Green 
  • Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane 
  • The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3) - Philip Pullman 
  • The House Girl - Tara Conklin
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M.Pirsig 
  • If I Stay (If I Stay, #1) - Gayle Forman
  • Flashforward - Robert J. Sawyer
  • Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis 
  • The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
  • Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis
  • The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
  • The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
  • The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • I, Claudius - Robert Graves
  • Doomed - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Fluke or I know why the whale sings - Christopher Moore
  • Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 
  • Looking for Alaska - John Green
  • The Interestings - Meg Wolizer


Fiction NOT Recommended:
  • The Bridge to Neverland by Dave Barry
  • The Dinner - Herman Koch
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
  • The Memory's Keeper Daughter - Kim Edwards 
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac 
  • Woke Up Lonely - Fiona Maazel 
  • The Other Typist - Suzanne Rindell 
  • The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout 
  • The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards -  Kristopher Jansma  
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  • Horns - Joe Hill 
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 
  • Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
  • Maze Runner - James Dashner
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
  • The Spectacular Now - Tim Tharp
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Non-Fiction NOT Recommended:
  • Getting Unstuck - Pema Chodron

1 comment:

Amy Kate said...

Your organized list makes me set one of my goals for the year to remain organized on tracking my reading for the year much much better. Thank you for another year of awesome recommendations and reviews!