Taking a cue from some of my fellow bookworms and authors (in particular, Matt Bell, who read an impressive 113 books this past year), I thought I'd share my entire book log from 2013. I've already posted the statistics from my reading year, but here's the meat which belongs on those mathematical bones. A couple of other notes: 28 of the 81 books were written by women, 35 were published in 2013, 11 were published before 2000, and four won't be published until 2014. I've included novella-length stories and children's books because they also figured into the annual tally.
Mormon Boy by Seth Brady Tucker
The Third Son by Julie Wu
Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch
Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins by Anthony Slide
Why Unicorn Drinks by C. W. Moss
Fire and Forget, edited by Roy Scranton and Matt Gallagher
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
The Sensualist by Daniel Torday
I Want to Show You More by Jamie Quatro
Edward Adrift by Craig Lancaster
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys by D. A. Powell
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
National Treasures by Charles McLeod
The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets by Diana Wagman
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Sparta by Roxana Robinson
Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel
Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters by Charles Finn
The Message in the Hollow Oak by Carolyn Keene
The Sign of the Twisted Candles by Carolyn Keene
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead
Death of an American Sniper by Anthony Swofford
The Clue of the Carved Ruby by Helen Wells
Mister and Lady Day by Amy Novesky
The Sun Valley Story by Van Gordon Sauter
Love Slave by Jennifer Spiegel
All That Is by James Salter
Forgotten Dreams by Mark Gibbons
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
The Tenth of December by George Saunders
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Joyland by Stephen King
Storm by Christopher Cook
The Stick Soldiers by Hugh Martin
Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned by Alvin Townley
Shrapnel by William Wharton
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
James Fenimore Cooper, Leatherstocking Boy by Gertrude Hecker Winders
Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg
The Alienist by Machado De Assis
Death of an Angel by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Return to Oakpine by Ron Carlson
Falling to Earth by Kate Southwood
Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation by Robert Wilson
The Commandant of Lubizec by Patrick Hicks
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J. K. Rowling)
The Cineaste by A. Van Jordan
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
At the Bottom of Everything by Ben Dolnick
Romanticism by April Bernard
Familiar by J. Robert Lennon
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher
Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman
How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
Field Notes
by Charles Butterfield
Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter
Lucky Bruce by Bruce Jay Friedman
The End of the Road by Tom Bodett
Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia
Still Writing by Dani Shapiro
Pumpkin by Cindy Ott
Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner
London Snow by Paul Theroux
A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition by Lee Mendelson
Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell
Waking by Ron Rash
How to Shake the Other Man by Derek Palacio
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Dark by Lemony Snicket
Year of the Jungle by Suzanne Collins
The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupre by Sarah Kathryn York
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
The Boarding House by Marcia Melton
Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly by Agatha Christie
LOL, Now I finally know what to do with my list! https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3356446-carol?shelf=2013 I looked through your list and didn't see any in common although many of them look mighty good!
ReplyDeleteYes, but Carol....126 books! You've got me beat.
DeleteAnd there are many titles on your list which are in my TBR pile, including, Cascade, The Painted Girls, Jane Smiley's Dickens, Wake, The Tilted World and The Snow Child. Maybe in 2014. Or 2015, 2016, or 2017.....
I'm feeling a little left out!
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