2013 Reading List

So my goal this year is to read 52 books. I’m trying as hard as I can to achieve this – not because the number of books read is important but because I love reading and there are so many books out there I still want to read – and more is published every day – so I have to push myself to be able to read everything I want to…

Here’s the list of books I’ve read in 2013:

1. Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the Goon Squad (January 5)
2. Karen Thompson Walker: The Age of Miracles (January 7)
3. Tom Perrotta: The Leftovers (January 12)
4. Stephen King: The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower #2) (January 14)
5. Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet (January 19)
6. Philip Roth: The Counterlife (January 23)
7. Terry Pratchett: Making Money (Discworld #36) (January 28)
8. Salman Rushdie: Joseph Anton: a memoir (February 7)
9. Carol Birch: Jamrach’s Menagerie (February 11)
10. Toni Morrison: Beloved (February 20)
11. Daniel Miller: The Comfort of Things (February 28)
12. John Lanchester: Capital (March 10)
13. Erlend Loe: Doppler (March 12)
14. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated (March 20)
15. S.J. Watson: Before I Go To Sleep (March 22)
16. Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (March 24)
17. Félix J. Palma: The Map of Time (April 1)
18. Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (April 25)
19. Erik Valeur: Det syvende barn (May 6)
20. Nina Sankovitch: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (May 12)
21. Charlotte Rogan: The Lifeboat (May 16)
22. Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (May 26)
23. Dan Brown: Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) (June 1)
24. Andrew Taylor: The Anatomy of Ghosts (June 5)
25. Joyce Carol Oates: Mother, Missing (June 14)
26. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (June 17)
27. Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo (July 20)
28. Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane (July 23)
29. Tim Stutler: Hillari’s Head (July 26)
30. Virginia Woolf: Orlando (July 31)
31. Stephen King: The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3) (August 3)
32. Stephen King: Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) (August 13)
33. Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (August 23)
34. Jane Austen: Mansfield Park (September 3)
35. Richard Adams: Watership Down (September 14)
36. Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited (September 30)
37. Jim Butcher: Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1) (October 10)
38. Jim Butcher: Fool’s Moon (The Dresden Files #2) (October 15)
39. Martin Amis: Lionel Asbo (October 22)
40. John Updike: Rabbit Run (The Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom Series #1) (November 10)
41. Meike Ziervogel: Magda (November 11)
42. Thomas Steinbeck: Cabbages and Kings (November 15)
43. Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader (November 18)
44. Colm Tóibín: The Testament of Mary (November 21)
45. Thomas Steinbeck: Dr. Greenlaw and the Zulu Princess (November 30)
46. John Irving: A Widow for One Year (December 13)
47. V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger #1) (December 21)
48. Thomas Ligotti: Teatro Grottesco (December 26)
49. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (December 28)
50. Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) (December 29)
51. Various authors: Eleven Doctors, Eleven Stories (December 29)
52. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (December 30)

And here’s the books I’ve been listening to:

1. Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl
2. A.J. Jacobs: Drop Dead Healthy: One Man’s Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
3. A.J. Jacobs: The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
4. A.J. Jacobs: The Year of Living Biblically (April 23)
5. Jacqueline Ratner: Stone Rose (Doctor Who)
6. Justin Richards: The Angel’s Kiss – A Melody Malone Mystery (Doctor Who)