book list 2013

The annual list of new books read in 2013! My New Year's Eve celebrations are sooner than anticipated, so this post is a bit curtailed- but here they are! I read 88 books in 2013, a personal best, which I am putting down to a long commute, and maybe the number of graphic novels. There are some good books in here (and some not-so-good) which hopefully I will get to post about another day!

ETA: Now added links to books that I've blogged about.
The High Window - Raymond Chandler
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
Little Sister - Raymond Chandler
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg
Book Lust - Nancy Pearl
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Year of the Griffin - Diana Wynne Jones
Art in Nature - Tove Jansson
Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan
The Long Ships - FransG. Bengtsson
Wildwood - ColinMeloy, illus. Carson Ellis
Under Wildwood - ColinMeloy, illus. Carson Ellis
Inverted World - ChristopherPriest
French Milk - Lucy Knisley
From the Beast to theBlonde - Marina Warner
The Minority Council - Kate Griffin
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Carnet de Voyage - Craig Thompson
Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi
Among Others - Jo Walton
NW - Zadie Smith
Sea Hearts - MargoLanagan
The Shadow of the Sun- A.S. Byatt
In the Last Analysis - Amanda Cross
The James Joyce Murder - Amanda Cross
Poetic Justice - Amanda Cross
Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
The Theban Mysteries - Amanda Cross
Life after Life - Kate Atkinson
The Question of Max - Amanda Cross
Victorian Honeymoons:Journeys to the Conjugal - Helena Michie
Death in the Faculty - Amanda Cross
The Silver Bough - Lisa Tuttle
The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy
The Moonstone - WilkieCollins
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
Stray Souls - Kate Griffin
Cold Steel - Kate Elliot
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - Kate Summerscale
The Christ Files - John Dickson
Damaged in Transit - Mary Manning
Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
The Game - Diana Wynne Jones
Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
Beauty - Robin McKinley
Serpent's Tooth - Robert Swindells
The Quiet American - Graham Greene
The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
The Greatcoat - Helen Dunmore
Women of Letters - ed. Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
The Perilous Gard - ElizabethMarie Pope
The Palace of Curiosities - Rosie Garland
The Norseman's Song - Joel Deane
A Gathering Light - Jennifer Donnelly
In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje
Thursday - CatherineStorr
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner
The Lovely Ladies - Nicholas Freeling
Black Maria - Diana Wynne Jones
A Long Silence - Nicholas Freeling
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent
A Brief History of Montmaray - Michelle Cooper
Eight Days of Luke - Diana Wynne Jones
The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
Blue Nights - Joan Didion
Sugar and Other Stories - A.S. Byatt
The Opposite House - Helen Oyeyemi
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
Snuff - Terry Pratchett
A Mind to Murder - P.D. James
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic biographer - Richard Holmes
How to Fall in Love - Cecilia Ahern
The Killing Moon - N.K. Jemisin
The Shadowed Sun - N.K. Jemisin
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon

Happy New Year!

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