The Book I Read 2013
I think I beat my record for the number of books this year. Not sure how to be honest.
Prize for the best book I read in 2013 goes to Patti Smith's "Just Kids". Just because.
- Andy Summers - One Train Later
- Timothy White - Catch A Fire - The Life Of Bob Marley
- Harry Turtledove - Supervolcano: Eruption
- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - 8th Confession
- Matt Haig - The Last Family In England
- Alan Bennett - Smut
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - In The First Circle
- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - 9th Judgement
- Dean Koontz - Velocity
- Juli Zeh - Dark Matter
- Miles Franklin - My Brilliant Career
- Amy Tan - The Opposite Of Fate
- Penn Jillette - God, No!
- Ellen Degeneres - The Funny Thing Is…
- Reginald Hill - Under World
- Will Birch - Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography
- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - 10th Anniversary
- Dean R Koontz - The Face Of Fear
- Jeffrey Deaver - The Burning Wire
- James Ellroy - Blood’s A Rover
- John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber - Our Iceberg Is Melting
- Michael Palin - Himalaya
- David Baldacci - Split Second
- Jenny Colgan - Looking For Andrew McCarthy
- Barry Schwartz - The Paradox Of Choice - Why Less Is More
- Mark Lane & Dick Gregory - Murder In Memphis
- Robin Cook - Fever
- Richard Cole with Richard Trubo - Stairway To Heaven
- Richard Adams - Watership Down
- Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Vernon Coleman - Cat Fables
- Victor Canning - The Doomsday Carrier
- Philip Short - Pol Pot: The History Of A Nightmare
- Simone Simmons - Diana - The Last Word
- Helen Brown - Cleo
- Brett Easton Ellis - Glamorama
- Julian Cope - Head-On
- Val McDermid - Fever Of The Bone
- Ian Rankin - The Complaints
- James Patterson & Howard Roughan - Don’t Blink
- Julian Cope - Repossessed
- John Lescroart - A Certain Justice
- Sheila Burnford - The Incredible Journey
- Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- Simon Winchester - The Surgeon Of Crowthorne
- Vicky Bhogal - A Year Of Cooking Like Mummyji
- Tony Hawks - One Hit Wonderland
- Peter Hook - The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club
- Jeffrey Deaver - XO
- James Pratt - Telekom
- Paul Frölich - Rosa Luxemburg
- Sheila Hancock - The Two Of Us: My Life With John Thaw
- Carole King - A Natural Woman
- Roger Scruton - The Uses Of Pessimism
- Tracey Thorn - Bedsit Disco Queen
- Harry Turtledove - West And East
- Sue Grafton - H Is For Homicide
- James Patterson & Maxine Paetro - 11th Hour
- Harry Turtledove - The Big Switch
- Carole A Travis-Heinkoff - Dinner With A Cannibal
- Food Network - Iron Chef: The Official Book
- Harry Turtledove - Supervolcano: All Fall Down
- Marieke Hardy - You’ll Be Sorry When I’m Dead
- John Foster - Take Me To Paris, Johnny
- Sue Grafton - Is For Innocent
- Harry Turtledove - Coup D’Etat
- Patti Smith - Just Kids
- AC Grayling - The God Argument
- Val McDermid - A Place Of Execution
- Martin H Manser - The Secret Life Of The English Language
- Jenny Lawson - Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
- Lynda La Plante - Silent Scream
- John Lescroart - Nothing But The Truth
- Simon Winchester - The Meaning Of Everything
- Lyle F Bachman & Adrian S Palmer - Language Testing In Practice
- Val McDermid - A Darker Domain
- Heather Poole - Cruising Attitude
- Pearl S Buck - The Good Earth
- John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
- Robin Bowles - Blood Brother
- Gary Buck - Assessing Listening
- Katherine Neville - The Magic Circle
- Paul Gallico - The Silent Miaow
- Yasmine Surovec - Cat Vs Human
- Ursula K Le Guin - Rocannon’s World
- James Patterson - Jack & Jill
- Scott Adams - Dilbert: Another Day In Cubicle Paradise
- Jeanette Winterson - The Battle For The Sun
- Scott Adams - Dilbert: The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head
- Sue Townsend - The Woman Who Went To Bed For A Year
- Scott Adams - Dilbert: Words You Don’t Want To Hear During Your Annual Performance Review
- Iain Banks - The Quarry
- Matt Thorne - Prince
- Gemma Correll - A Cat’s Life
- Judith Lucy - Drink Smoke Pass Out
- Scott Adams - When Body Language Goes Bad
- Yasmine Surovec - Cat Vs Human: Another Dose Of Catnip
- Jeffery Deaver - The Kill Room
- Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
- Richard Powers - Generosity
- Emma Donoghue - Room
- Orson Scott Card - Shadow Of The Hegemon
- Christopher Hitchens - The Trial Of Henry Kissinger
- Ben Lewis - Hammer And Tickle
- Harry Turtledove - Two Fronts
- Dean Koontz - 77 Shadow Street
- Marina Lewycka - A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
- John Reed - House Of Fun - The Story Of Madness
- James Phelan - Patriot Act
- Ruth Ravid - Practical Statistics For Educators
- Mo Yan - Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out
Prize for the best book I read in 2013 goes to Patti Smith's "Just Kids". Just because.