The Books I Read in 2013

I read two books this year titled Drive.  The first was Larry Bird's autobiography; the other was the James Sallis novel that the 2011 Ryan Gosling film was based on.

My top 10 favorite books I read this year:

1.     Atonement—Ian McEwan

2.     Gone Girl—Gillian Flynn

3.     The Orphan Master’s Son—Adam Johnson

4.     A Hologram for the King—Dave Eggers

5.     What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank—Nathan Englander

6.     The Snow Child—Eowyn Ivey

7.     Conversations with Pauline Kael—ed. Will Brantley

8.     The Magnificent Ambersons—Booth Tarkington

9.     The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—Muriel Spark

10. Love in Infant Monkeys—Lydia Millet

These are the 73 books I read this year:

1.     The Magnificent Ambersons—Booth Tarkington

2.     Cowards—Glenn Beck

3.     Is My Bow Too Big?—Victoria Jackson

4.     Gone Girl—Gillian Flynn

5.     A Hologram for the King—Dave Eggers

6.     Ritual in Death—J.D. Robb

7.     The Ginger Man—J.P. Donleavy

8.     Yearbook—Allyson Braithwaite Condie

9.     Atonement—Ian McEwan

10. Hollywood, Interrupted—Andrew Breitbart & Mark Ebner

11. The One and Only Ivan—Katherine Applegate

12. In Darkness—Nick Lake

13. Splendors and Glooms—Laura Amy Schlitz

14. 10 Things Jesus Never Said—Will Davis, Jr.

15. Dodger—Terry Pratchett

16. God’s Guest List—Debbie Macomber

17. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe—Benjamin Alire Saenz

18. Drive—Larry Bird

19. When the Game Was Ours—Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson

20. Code Name Verity—Elizabeth Wein

21. God’s Not Dead—Rice Broocks

22. Three Times Lucky—Sheila Turnage

23. The Sheltering Sky—Paul Bowles

24. Messi—Luca Caioli

25. Life of Pi—Yann Martel

26. The Surrendered—Chang-Rae Lee

27. Under the Net—Iris Murdoch

28. Team of Rivals—Doris Kearns Goodwin

29. The Snow Child—Eowyn Ivey

30. The Orphan Master’s Son—Adam Johnson

31. The West’s Last Chance—Tony Blankley

32. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank—Nathan Englander

33. All the Pretty Horses—Cormac McCarthy

34. The White Bicycle—Beverley Brenna

35. The History Boys—Alan Bennett

36. Wide Sargasso Sea—Jean Rhys

37. Jane Eyre—Charlotte Bronte

38. The Preacher and the Presidents—Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

39. Wild—Cheryl Strayed

40. Drama—Raina Telgemeier

41. A Game for Swallows—Zeina Abirached

42. Bullies—Ben Shapiro

43. Love in Infant Monkeys—Lydia Millet

44. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie—Muriel Spark

45. Fire in the Ashes—Jonathan Kozol

46. Desperate Characters—Paula Fox

47. Conversations with Pauline Kael—Will Brantley, ed.

48. The Sense of an Ending—Julian Barnes

49. The Journalist and the Murderer—Janet Malcolm

50. The Stench of Honolulu—Jack Handey

51. Radical Rulers—Robert Knight

52. Turtle in Paradise—Jennifer L. Holm

53. Six Easy Pieces—Richard Feynman

54. Amsterdam—Ian McEwan

55. The Homosexual Agenda—Alan Sears & Craig Osten

56. My Life Has a Price—Tina Okpara

57. A Mathematician’s Apology—G.H. Hardy

58. What’s So Great About America—Dinesh D’Souza

59. Drive—James Sallis

60. I Surrender All—Clay and Renee Crosse

61. Driven—James Sallis

62. Keep It Pithy—Bill O’Reilly

63. The Ocean at the End of the Lane—Neil Gaiman

64. Tell the Wolves I’m Home—Carol Rifka Brunt

65. Until She Comes Home—Lori Roy

66. The English Girl—Daniel Silva

67. Advise and Consent—Allen Drury

68. The Good Lord Bird—James McBride

69. The Flamethrowers—Rachel Kushner

70. The Luminaries—Eleanor Catton

71. Catching Fire—Suzanne Collins

72. The Thing About Luck—Cynthia Kadohata

73. Mockingjay—Suzanne Collins