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Books Reviewed in 2013

This is a list of the books read in 2013. Links take you to the my review of the book.

1. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
2. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
3. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
4. The Shining (audio) by Stephen King
5. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
6. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
7. The Adults by Alison Espach
8. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories – Volume 2, by Jospeh Gordon-Levitt
9. The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
10.  The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver
11. This Cake is For the Party by Sarah Selecky
12. Carrie (audio) by Stephen King, Read by Sissy Spacek
13. Survival Skills by Jean Ryan
14. The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
15. In Between Days by Andrew Porter
16. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
17. Panorama City by Antoine Wilson
18. Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt
19. More Than You Know by Nan Rossiter
20. A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
21. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
22. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
23. Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross
24. In the Garden of Stone by Susan Tekulve
25. He’s Gone by Deb Caletti
26. Benediction by Kent Haruf
27. Joyland by Stephen King
28. Life Itself by Roger Ebert
29. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
30. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
31. The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
32. The Slippage by Ben Greenman
33. Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
34. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
35. The Never List by Koethi Zan
36. The Curiosity by Stephen Kiernan
37. The Last Summer of the Camperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly
38. Bait by J. Kent Messum
39. Night Film by Marisha Pessl
40. The Asylum by John Harwood
41. After Her by Joyce Maynard
42. Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield
43. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
44. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
45. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
46. Cartwheel by Jennifer du Bois
47. This House is Haunted by John Boyne
48. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
49. World War Z by Max Brooks
50. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
51. The Abominable by Dan Simmons

Books Reviewed in 2012

This is a list of the books read in 2012. Links take you to the my review of the book.

1. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories by Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2. The Lost City of Z by David Grann
3. The Odds by Stewart O’Nan
4. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
6. Then Again (audio) by Diane Keaton
7. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
8. Wish You Were Here by Stewart O’Nan
9. The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
10.  The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
11. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
12. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
13. Heft by Liz Moore
14. Stay Awake by Dan Chaon
15. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi Durrow
16. Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
17. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
18. The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
19. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
20. Emily Alone by Stewart O’Nan
21. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
22. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
23. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
24. The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
25. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance & Survival by John Vaillant
26. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
27. Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
28. The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont
29. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
30. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
31. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompso Walker
32. The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
33. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
34. Words Get In the Way by Nan Rossiter
35. Looking for Alaska by John Green
36. Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty
37. Jaws by Peter Benchley
38. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
39. The City & The City by China Mieville
40. The Redbreast by Jo Nesbø
41. The Bird Saviors by William J. Cobb
42. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
43. The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
44. Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord
45. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
46. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
47. Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
48. So L.A. by Bridget Hoida
49. 12-21 by Dustin Thomason
50. Divergent by Veronica Roth
51. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
52. The Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthy
53. Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
54. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
55. IT (audio) by Stephen King
56. The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye
57. The Lost Art of Mixing by Erica Bauermeister
58. 1222 by Anne Holt
59. Because You Have To by Joan Frank
60. Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth
61. Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
62. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
63. The Leopard by Jo Nesbo
64. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
65. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami