Every Book I Read in 2013

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

The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler