Friday, January 17, 2014

2013 wrap up/2014 preview

The best 10 books I read in 2013 were:

1. My Antonia - Willa Cather 
2. The Grass Harp - Truman Capote 
3. America and Americans - John Steinbeck 
4. The Gift of Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
5. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
6. World's Fair - E.L. Doctorow
7. How to Cook a Wolf - MFK Fisher
8. tiny beautiful things - Cheryl Strayed 
9. Rock Springs - Richard Ford
10. Serena - Ron Rash

Honorable mentions: Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger, A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor, Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo, A Lost Lady - Willa Cather, O Pioneers! - Willa Cather

Most looking forward to reading in 2014:

1. On Such a Full Sea - Chang-rae Lee
2. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - Anthony Marra
3. These Were Hard Times - Tim Egan
4. Detroit - Charlie Leduff
5. The Other Side of the Tracks - Tony Cano
6. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
7. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
8. The People in the Trees - Hanya Yanagihara
9. Young Man With a Horn - Dorothy Baker
10. Happiness, Like Water - Chinelo Okparanta

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