2013 Books Read

I had so hoped to expand this list by adding, and linking to, a few more response/review posts. That is obviously not going to happen at this point, and we’re at the last day of January, so 2014 is well launched. Time to push “publish” on this list of books read in 2013.

Given that my first post of the new year has taken a full month to put up, I have been wondering whether I should even bother continuing with this separate blog. But I’m not hurting anyone by posting sporadically, and I do like having the lists to refer back to as a way of refreshing my poor old memory. So I’m going to keep it for now. Might not post again for quite a few weeks, though. . .

1. Taras Grescoe The Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

2. Martin Walker. The Dark Vineyard

3. Lee Maracle Ravensong. Reread for teaching

4. Maeve Binchy. A Week in Winter

5. Tana French. In the Woods

6. Thomas King. Medicine River (reread for teaching)

7. Mark Doty. Dog Years (reread for teaching)

8. Alan Bradley. A Red Herring Without Mustard

9. Teresa Solona. A Not so Perfect Crime

10. Robert Hughes. Barcelona.

11. Patricia Barey and Therese Burson.Julia’s Cats: Julia Child’s Life in the Company of Cats

12. Anne Goscinny.  Le Banc des Soupirs

13. Fred Vargas. The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

14. Anne Carson. Red Doc

15. Saphia Azzeddine.La Mecque Phuket

16. Nicci French. What to Do when Someone Dies

17. Kate Atkinson. Life after Life

18. Eva Hornung. Dog Boy

19. Richard C. Millais. One-Hundred Foot Journey

20. W.G. Sebald. After Nature

21 Julian Barnes love, etc.

22 Julian Barnes Levels of Life

23 Peter Robinson. Watching the dark

24. Kathy Mosse The Winter Ghosts

25 Hart Massey Travels with Lionel: A Small Barge in France

26 Joanna Trollope The Best of Friends

27 Françoise Sagan Bonjour Tristesse

28. Thomas Perry. Poison Flower

29. W.G. Sebald Austerlitz

30. Nicholas Carr. The Shallows, or What the Internet is Doing to our Brains

31. Val McDermid’s The Vanishing Point

32. Josef Skvorecky. The Engineer of Human Souls, abandoned for now. . . .bookmarked. . . .

33. Michael Crummey. Galore

34. David Lebowitz. The Sweet Life in Paris 

35. Anne Enright. The Forgotten Waltz

36. Sheryl Sandberg. Lean In

37. Susan Cain.Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking

38. Tana French. The Likeness

39. Tana French. Faithful Place

40 Sheila Watson. The Double Hook. (Reread for teaching)

41. Michael Connelly. The Black Box

42. Natalee Caple. In Calamity’s Wake

43. Michael Ondaatje. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

44. Alan Jacobs. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

45. Patricia Cornwell. The Bone Bed.

46. Patrick Dewitt. The Sisters Brothers (Reread for teaching)

47. Neil Gaiman. The House at the End of the Lane.

48. Val McDermid. Cross and Burn

49. Margaret Atwood. MaddAddam

50. David Essig. Dancing Hand. 

51. Eleanor Catton. The Luminaries.

52. Carolyn Abraham. The Juggler’s Children

53. Joseph Boyden. The Orenda

54. Carol O’Connell. It Happens in the Dark

55. Laurie R. King. The Bones of Paris

56. Sara Gran. Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead

2 Comments

  1. Brenda
    1 February 2014 / 1:30 am

    I wasn't aware you also had a book site. I so hope you continue, when you can, to post the books you've read. I already have picked out several I would like to read from this post alone. I plan to read thru all the posts for more recommendations. I am reading, actually listening to, both Wolf Hall and The Goldfinch now. Love both of them! Are you on Goodreads? I am Brenda on there but people have a hard time connecting with me so it works out better if I send a friend request. Don't know why – maybe too many Brendas. If you are a member what is your name there so I can friend you. It is a great site to keep track of your reading and to pick up recommendations.

  2. materfamilias
    2 February 2014 / 5:18 am

    I'm glad you find the list useful, Brenda. I'm not on Goodreads — it does sound like a good community for readers but I've got rather enough social media for now! (FB, Twitter, Ravelry, my blog). . . and because of my work and my network in general, I never seem to lack for titles to go on my to-read list! The challenge is to find time to read, as I'm sure you probably agree.

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