Monday, February 17, 2014
2013: Another year lost to books.
Several years ago, I started keeping a list of the books I read. I'm really not sure what the list reveals, other than all the time I've spent bumming around with fictitious characters when I probably should have been bumming around with my very real family. This was my most recent year in books.
January
- Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris
- The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch
- Everyone's Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby
- An Arrangement of Light by Nicole Krauss
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
- Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
- The Beggar King by Oliver Potzsch
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
- The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
- Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino
- The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb
- Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
- A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
- Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
- Grendel by John Gardner
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
- The Kings and Queens of Roam by Daniel Wallace
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- You Suck by Christopher Moore
- The Matchmaker of Perigord by Julia Stuart
- Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
- Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente
- The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- Mort by Terry Pratchett
- The Pigeon Pie Mystery by Julia Stuart
- The Poisoned Pilgrim by Oliver Potzsch
- Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole
- The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
- Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
- The Girl Who Soard over Fairyland and Cut the Moon In Two by Catherynne Valente
- A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
- The Curiosity by Stephen P Kiernan
- Burial Rights by Hannah Kent
- How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman
- The Land of Stories: Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
- Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- Momo by Michael Ende