Favorites of 2013: General Nonfiction & Memoir
Favorites of 2013: Short Stories & Comics
Favorites of 2013: Miscellaneous
* Titles marked with an asterisk are audiobooks.
- Sad Desk Salad by Jessica Grose
- An Uncommon Education by Elizabeth Percer
- Aerogrammes: And Other Stories by Tania James
- Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
- Haiti: After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer
- I Want to Show You More: Stories by Jamie Quatro
- Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
- Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
- News from Heaven: The Bakerton Stories by Jennifer Haigh
- The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan
- Inside by Alix Ohlin *
- On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder
- Snowdrops by A. D. Miller *
- Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
- The Miniature Wife: And Other Stories by Manuel Gonzales
- The Feminist and the Cowboy by Alisa Valdes
- Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid
- Born Palestinian, Born Black & The Gaza Suite by Suheir Hammad
- The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
- Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda
- Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson
- Manology: Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed by Tyrese Gibson and Rev Run
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander *
- Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
- Building Stories by Chris Ware
- Notorious Victoria by Mary Gabriel
- Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
- The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf
- Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
- The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
- Sexy Feminism: A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudúlph
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson *
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire ed. by Sonia Shah
- A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel
- And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
- Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions ed. by Cami Ostman and Susan Tive
- The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau
- The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines by Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Have You Seen Marie? by Sandra Cisneros
- Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
- My Heart is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart
- Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger
- Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore
- Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage ed. by Ryan Conrad
- When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
- What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner
- Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
- The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan *
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Blue Angel by Logan Belle
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Gao Xingjian
- Zinsky the Obscure by Ilan Mochari
- Honor by Elif Shafak
- State of Wonder by Ann Patchett *
- Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
- Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish by David Rakoff
- The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns by Margaret Dilloway
- The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki *
- Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov *
- The Color Master: Stories by Aimee Bender
- In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
- Life Itself by Roger Ebert
- Jacob’s Folly by Rebecca Miller
- My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation by Molly Haskell
- The Other Room by Kim Triedman
- Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Awesome Girl’s Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men by Ernessa T. Carter
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles *
- Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz *
- Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
- Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light ed. by Penelope Rowlands
- Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tim Reiss
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
- Starling by Sage Stossel
- A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition by Charles M. Schulz and Lee Mendelson
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Vol. 3 ed. by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat *
- Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim Leong
- The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman *
- Zone One by Colson Whitehead *
- Perfect by Rachel Joyce
- One of Ours by Willa Cather
- How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
- The Diary of Edward the Hamster, 1990 – 1990 by Miriam and Ezra Elia
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell *
Are the books listed with a link the ones you liked more?
No, I just haven’t gotten around to reviewing some of those yet. I’ll list all my favorite books of this year during the first week of January. 🙂
Ooooh, okay.