2013: 156 Books Read
Favorites are bolded, hated books have a strike-through. I try not to bold more than three in a month, so something not being bolded doesn't mean it wasn't excellent. I'm quite good at choosing books I'll enjoy, so you know...
January:
The Singing Sands - Josephine Tey
War Underground - Alexander Barrie
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection - Alexander McCall Smith
The March of Folly - Barbara Tuchman
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggins
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
The Nazi Officer's Wife - Edith Hahn Beer
Toms River - Dan Fagin
The Chaperone - Laura Moriarty
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother - Xinran
Sister Citizen - Melissa V. Harris-Perry
February:
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Fooling Houdini - Alex Stone
The Pilgrim of Hate - Ellis Peters
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
American Nations - Colin Woodard
The Face of Battle - John Keegan
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Yokohama Yankee - Leslie Helm
March:
The Violinist's Thumb - Sam Kean
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla - Marc Seifer
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs - Wayne Bethard
Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child - Bob Spitz
In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
David Mitchell: Back Story - David Mitchell
April:
Mythologies - Roland Barthes
Tennis Shoes - Noel Streatfield
A History of the World in Six Glasses - Tom Standage
An Excellent Mystery - Ellis Peters
Island of Vice - Richard Zacks
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Yiddishkeit - Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle (editors)
The Last Voyage of Columbus - Martin Dugard
Gulp - Mary Roach
We Are on Our Own - Miriam Katin
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
May:
The Eye of Jade - Diane Wei Liang
The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Girl Trouble - Carol Dyhouse
Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh
Psmith, Journalist - PG Wodehouse
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Triangle: The Fire That Changed American - David von Drehle
The River of Doubt - Candice Millard
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - Dan Ariely
Life Disrupted - Laurie Edwards
A House Divided - Pearl S. Buck
June:
Getting Stoned with Savages - J. Maarten Troost
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot - Antonia Frasier
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Peter Duck - Arthur Ransome
A Brief History of Roman Britain - JP Alcock
The Wet and the Dry - Lawrence Osborne
The Dragon Scroll - IJ Parker
The Woman Who Died A Lot - Jasper Fforde
Slavery by Another Name - Douglas A. Blackmon
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
1066: The Year of the Conquest - David Howarth
Dealing With Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
The Student Loan Scam - Alan Michael Collinge
July:
The Man Who Ate His Boots - Anthony Brandt
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Life and Ideas of James Hillman - Dick Russell
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
The Girls of Murder City - Douglas Perry
The Raven in the Foregate - Ellis Peters
The Girls of Room 28 - Hannelore Brenner
Candide - Voltaire
Leave it to Psmith - PG Wodehouse
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals - David Alan Corbin
Bad Astronomy - Philip C. Plait
The White Cat - Madame d'Aulnoy
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage
The Endurance - Caroline Alexander
To Love and Be Wise - Josephine Tey
Against Their Will - Allen Hornblum
Pies and Prejudice - Stewart Maconie
August:
Moment of Battle - James Lacey and Williamson Murray
Stilwell and the American Experience in China - Barbara Tuchman
The Painted Garden - Noel Streatfeild
A Blink of the Screen - Terry Pratchett
The Rose Rent - Ellis Peters
Holidays and Other Disasters - John G. Rodwan, Jr.
The Whiskey Rebellion - William Hogeland
Peter Pan - JM Barrie
Trouping - Philip C. Lewis
A Hundred Flowers - Gail Tsukiyama
Raven Flight - Juliet Marillier
Destiny Disrupted - Tamim Ansary
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
The Poisoner's Handbook - Deborah Blum
Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
September:
Just Kids - Patti Smith
The Great Crash - John Kenneth Galbraith
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
The Long War - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hannf
The Great War in Africa - Byron Farwell
The Hermit of Eyton Forest - Ellis Peters
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
Indian Givers - Jack Weatherford
Searching for Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth
The Bondwoman's Narrative - Hannah Crafts
October:
For All the Tea in China - Sarah Rose
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew - Margaret Sidney
2030: The Real Story of What Happens to American - Albert Brooks
How to Build a Dinosaur - Jack Horner and James Gorman
At the Dark End of the Street - Danielle L. McGuire
Charlatan - Pope Brock
The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
Dancing Aztecs - Donald E. Westlake
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
Unimagined - Imran Ahmad
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Turing's Cathedral - George Dyson
The Riddle of the Labyrinth - Margalit Fox
The Confession of Brother Haluin - Ellis Peters
The Mating Season - PG Wodehouse
Marie Curie and Her Daughters - Shelley Emling
Sapper Martin - (Jack Martin) Richard Van Emden
November:
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
The Great Race - David Hill
The War That Killed Achilles - Caroline Alexander
Sailor Moon Vol. 7-12 - Naoko Takeuchi
The Vikings - Neil Oliver
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
A Clown Like Me - Joan Oppenheimer
1493 - Charles C. Mann
Calling on Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
You Are Now Less Dumb - David McRaney (Too redundant from his first book, nothing really new)
Mary Boleyn - Alison Weir
Swallowdale - Arthur Ransome
December:
The Captured - Scott Zesch
East End Tales - Gilda O'Niell (Nothing all that interesting, just every bit common knowledge)
The Heretic's Apprentice - Ellis Peters
Song of Survival - Helen Colijn
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
Talking to Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
One Day I Will Write About This Place - Binyavanga Wainaina
Nella Last's War - Nella Last
The Notorious Benedict Arnold - Steve Sheinkin
156
I loved all the Swallows and Amazons books but bolding all of them would have caused me to bold too much in those months (likewise Terry Pratchett).
Please do ask me about any of the titles there that you're interested in or want to discuss! I do little loose, not reviews, but sort of on LibraryThing for everything I read now, so I actually remember the books more than some years. I almost finished The Path Between the Seas but I can't finished anything before the new year and mess up my number. So I saved the last hour and I've started Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell. It's a bit startling, because Ruth's last name is my last name and it's full of Miss Hilton this Miss Hilton that.
Also, PSA, Livejournal is sending comments to me days late, so check your entries maybe.