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The Accursed world of MaddAddam forced Doctor Sleep to embark upon a Transatlantic journey of The Hot Country to deliver Life After Life to The Woman Upstairs OR The Best Reads of 2013

Best of 2013
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The New York Times recently published their annual Most Notable Books of the year. I must say they chose well. 2013 has been a fantastic year for reading! Of course perusing their list resulted in too many more “to be read” titles added to my reading list.

At least half the books I read this year were actually published in 2013 (usually I tend to read more classics or older books). Here are twenty of my favorite reads of 2013, (in no particular order), most, but not all, published this year. Be sure to browse my bookshelf for short reviews of these and others.

Have you read any of these books? What did you think of them? What was your favorite read this year?   

MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood 

Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King 

Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson 

The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud 

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann 

Transatlantic, by Colum McCann 

This Side of Brightness, by Colum McCann

The Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates 

Ghosting, by Kirby Gann

The Liar’s Club, a memoir, by Mary Karr 

Lit, a memoir, by Mary Karr 

Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane 

Deadlock, by James Scott Bell 

Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson; indeed, her whole series on Jackson Brodie 

The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

The Hot Country, by Robert Olen Butler 

Just Kids, a memoir by Patti Smith 

The Night in Question: Stories, by Tobias Wolff 

The Best American Short Stories of 2012  ~ about halfway with this one now, excellent stories!

The Invisibles, by Hugh Sheehy ~ also about halfway with this one, outstanding work!

Whew, that’s a lot of links! 🙂 

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