The Books I’ve Bought (2013)

So when 2013 began, I started to make a list of the books I bought. As I was also trying to read more books than I bought to get my ever-growing to-read list to go down, I challenged myself to read every book, I bought this year. In that, I failed miserably. I read very few of them…!
Below the pictures, you’ll find a list of the books I bought with links to reviews of the ones I actually got around to reading. However, there are x books that I have bought and read this year but not gotten around to reviewing yet. These are: S.J. Watson: Before I Go to Sleep which I quite enjoyed and Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone and Leigh Bardugo: Shadow & Bone (The Grisha #1),both of which I loved!

                      

1. SJ Watson: Before I Go to Sleep
2. J.K. Rowling: The Casual Vacancy
3. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
4. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
5. Toni Morrison: Beloved
6. Salman Rushdie: Joseph Anton. A Memoir
7. Erlend Loe: Doppler
8. Félix J. Palma: The Map of Time
9. Peter Høeg: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne
10. Peter Høeg: Elefantpassernes børn
11. Morten Ramsland: Sumobrødre
12. Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
13. Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
14. Dea Trier Mørch: Vinterbørn
15. Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
16. Martin Amis: London Fields
17. Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
18. Vladimir Nabokov: Glory
19. Tove Ditlevsen: Man gjorde et barn fortræd
20. Kate Atkinson: Life After Life
21. Adam Johnson: The Orphan Master’s Son
22. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
23. Julian Barnes: Arthur & George
24. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
25. Diana Gabaldon: Voyager (Outlander #3)
26. Dan Brown: Inferno (Robert Langdon #4)
27. Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
28. Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
29. Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1)
30. Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles
31. Hilary Mantel: A Place of Greater Safety
32. Marjorie Celona: Y
33. Meg Wolitzer: The Interestings
34. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

So as anyone can see, I buy a lot of books during a year that I just doesn’t get around to reading… For some reason I tend to read older books and then wait with the newer books until they too are old. I’m not sure why that is and I’m not sure whether I will work on this or not. As long as I read mostly books I own, it doesn’t really matter whether I read the new ones or older ones – except of course that I sometimes feel hopeless behind because I don’t read the must-read books before they are very old news…!

Related posts:

• Book Buying 2013 – part 7
• Back from Holiday (& Book Buying 2013 – part 6)
• A Few New Books (Book Buying 2013 – part 5)
• And I did it again … (Book Buying 2013 – part 4)
• Library Sale (Book Buying 2013 – part 3)
• The Annual Danish Book Sale (Book Buying 2013 – part 2)
• Book Buying 2013 – part 1