This is the list of the 102 books I read in 2013, in the order that I read them, with links to the reviews I wrote.
There is not much rhyme or reason to whether I review a book or not. Some of my favorite books go without a review.
I rate books 1 to 5. I rate a book a 3 if I liked it but wouldn't think of recommending it and a 4 if I would recommend it to anyone. Most books get 3.5, which means that I liked it and would recommend it to people who like that genre or type of book. For a full explanation of my rating system, see here.
If you have reviewed any of the books I reviewed, and you would like your review listed on mine, please leave a comment on my review post for that book with a link to your review and I will add it.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (3.5/5)
What a Piece of Work I Am by Eric Kraft (2.5/5; reviewed here)
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (4/5)
Personal History by Katharine Graham (5/5; reviewed here)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (4/5; reviewed here)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (4/5; Pulitzer Prize winner; reviewed here)
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb (4/5; reviewed here)
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope (4/5)
The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie (3.5/5)
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer by A. J. Liebling (reviewed here) (3.5/5)
The Perfect Martini Book by Bob Herzbrun (3/5)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (4/5; Booker Prize winner)
Dismanteling America by Thomas Sowell (3.5/5)
A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse (3/5; reviewed here)
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin (3.5/5)
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell (3/5)
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik (3/5; reviewed here)
Shopgirl by Steve Martin (3.5/5)
Childhood by Anthony Burgess (3/5)
The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie (3.5/5; reviewed here)
The Founding Fish by John McPhee (3.5/5)
Hot Money by Dick Friancis (3.5/5)
Death in the Truffle Wood by Pierre Madnan (3.5/5)
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto (3.5/5; reviewed here)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness (3.5/5; Nobel winner; reviewed here)
Good to Great by Jim Collins (3.5/5)
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain (3.5/5)
The Gathering by Anne Enright (4/5; Booker Prize winner; reviewed here)
Murder at the Washington Tribune by Margaret Truman (3/5)
Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin (3/5; reviewed here)
Quite Honestly by John Mortimer (3/5)
Word Up! How to Write Powerful Sentences and Paragraphs (And Everything You Build from Them) by Marcia Riefer Johnston (3.5/5)
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (3.5/5; reviewed here)
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane (3.5/5; reviewed here)
Blood From a Stone by Donna Leon (3.5/5)
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl (3/5)
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (4/5; reviewed here)
Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard (3/5)
The Road Home by Rose Tremain (3.5/5)
The Infinities by John Banville (3.5/5)
Cat Nips by Ray Shaw (3/5)
Beast in View by Margaret Millar (3.5/5; reviewed here)
Son of Holmes by John Lescroart (3/5)
Double-Edged Sword by Steve Anderson (4/5)
The Art of Fiction by David Lodge (4/5)
Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva (3.5/5)
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (3/5; Pulitzer Prize winner)
The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy (5/5; reviewed here)
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. I by Mark Twain (3.5/5)
The Soldier's Wife by Joanne Trollope (3/5)
The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman (3/5)
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (3.5/5)
Smiley's People by John Le Carre (3/5)
Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore (3.5/5; reviewed here)
Perfect Happiness by Penelope Lively (3.5/5)
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain (3.5/5)
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxely (3/5)
Small World by David Lodge (4/5)
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (4.5/5; Booker Prize winner)
Fundraising Realities Every Board Member Must Face by David Lansdown (3/5)
Broken Windows, Broken Business by Michael Levine (3/5)
Death at the Chateau Bremont by M. L. Longworth (3.5/5)
Flying Finish by Dick Francis (4/5)
On the Edge by Peter Lovesey (3/5)
Letting Go by Philip Roth (3/5)
The Wandering Goose by Heather Earnhardt (3.5/5)
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers (3.5/5)
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies (4.5/5; reviewed here)
The Affair by Lee Child (3.5/5)
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym (3/5)
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (3.5/5; Edgar winner)
The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollope (3/5)
Forfeit by Dick Francis (3.5/5; Edgar winner)
Parachutes & Kisses by Erica Jong (3/5; reviewed here)
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan (3.5/5)
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh (3.5/5)
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks (3.5/5)
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison (3.5/5)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald (3/5)
Because He Could by Dick Morrison (3/5)
Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. Wodehouse (3/5)
Cold by Stella Cameron (3.5/5)
Elegy for April by Benjamin Black (4/5)
The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch (4/5)
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (3.5/5)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (3.5/5)
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (3/5)
Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason (3/5)
The Conscience of the Rich by C. P. Snow (3/5)
The Complaints by Ian Rankin (3.5/5)
Things We Set on Fire by Deborah Reed (4/5)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (3/5)
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (3/5)
A Taste for Death by P. D. James (3.5/5)
Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse (4/5)
The Christmas Pearl by Dorthea Benton Frank (3/5)
The CEO of the Sofa by P. J. O'Roarke (3/5)
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl (3/5)
The Dean's December by Saul Bellow (3/5)
Worthy Brown's Daughter by Philip Margolin (3.5/5)