Books Read in 2013

2013 by the Numbers

Favorites of 2013: Novels

Favorites of 2013: General Nonfiction & Memoir

Favorites of 2013: Short Stories & Comics

Favorites of 2013: Miscellaneous

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* Titles marked with an asterisk are audiobooks.

1. Sad Desk Salad by Jessica Grose
2. An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer
3. Aerogrammes: And Other Stories by Tania James
4. Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
5. Haiti: After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
6. I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro
7. Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
8. Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
9. News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh
10. The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
11. Inside by Alix Ohlin *
12. On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder
13. Snowdrops by A. D. Miller *
14. Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
15. The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales
16. The Feminist and the Cowboy by Alisa Valdes
17. Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid
18. Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad
19. The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
20. Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda
21. Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson
22. Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed by Tyrese Gibson and Rev Run
23. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander *
24. Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
25. Building Stories by Chris Ware
26. Notorious Victoria by Mary Gabriel
27. Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
28. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf
29. Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
30. The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
31. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
32. Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
33. Sexy Feminism: A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudúlph
34. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
36. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson *
37. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
38. Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire ed. by Sonia Shah
39. A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel
40. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
41. Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions ed. by Cami Ostman and Susan Tive
42. The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau
43. The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines by Shohreh Aghdashloo
44. Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros
45. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
46. My Heart is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart
47. Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger
48. Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore
49. Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage ed. by Ryan Conrad
50. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
51. What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner
52. Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
53. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan *
54. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
55. Blue Angel by Logan Belle
56. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
57. Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
58. Zinsky the Obscure by Ilan Mochari
59. Honor by Elif Shafak
60. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett *
61. Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
62. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
63. The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Dilloway
64. The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
65. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki *
66. Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins
67. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov *
68. The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender
69. In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
70. Life Itself by Roger Ebert
71. Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller
72. My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation by Molly Haskell
73. The Other Room by Kim Triedman
74. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
75. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
76. The Awesome Girl’s Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T. Carter
77. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles *
78. Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering
79. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz *
80. Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
81. Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light ed. by Penelope Rowlands
82. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
83. Beloved by Toni Morrison
84. Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
85. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
86. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tim Reiss
87. Tenth of December by George Saunders
88. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
89. Starling by Sage Stossel
90. A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition by Charles M. Schulz and Lee Mendelson
91. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Vol. 3 ed. by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
92. Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat *
93. Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim Leong
94. The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
95. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman *
96. Zone One by Colson Whitehead *
97. Perfect by Rachel Joyce
98. One of Ours by Willa Cather
99. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
100. The Diary of Edward the Hamster, 1990 – 1990 by Miriam and Ezra Elia
101. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell *