My end of
the year report: by my count I read 46 books this year. I find that to be a low number, and I am sure
that my husband and family would also dispute it, but that is what I have! And
of that 46, only 4 are non-fiction.
Again, hard to believe. I am
going to be more diligent about recording my reading this year of 2014 and see
if my numbers improve. Perhaps, my count
is correct. After all, I did take up
knitting in January of 2013 and that did cut down on my reading time!
Anyway, as
I did last year, I will narrow down my favorite reads for you. Here are my top 15 books from my reading in
2013:
Touch-Alexi
Zentner
Home-Toni
Morrison
The Light
Between the Oceans: ML Stedman
The Grave
Diggers Daughter: Joyce Carol Oates
Ordinary
Grace-William Kent Krueger
Wilderness-Lance
Weller
The Human
Stain-Phillip Roth
A Town Like
Alice: Nevil
Shute
A Far Cry
From Kensington: Muriel Sparks
The Good
Lord Bird-James McBride
The Burgess
Boys-Elizabeth Strout
The
Storyteller-Jodi Picult
The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry-Rachel Joyce
House
Girl-Tara Conklin
The Book
Thief-Markus Zusak
And now
narrowing the list down further, here are my top 8 favorite books:
Ordinary
Grace-William Kent Krueger
Wilderness-Lance
Weller
The Human
Stain-Phillip Roth
The Burgess
Boys-Elizabeth Strout
The
Storyteller-Jodi Picult
The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry-Rachel Joyce
House
Girl-Tara Conklin
The Book
Thief-Markus Zusak
This is
where it really starts getting difficult….it is interesting to me that two of
these books were written several years ago (The
Human Stain in 2000, and The Book
Thief in 2006). I can get the list down to 5:
Wilderness-Lance
Weller
The Human
Stain-Phillip Roth
The
Storyteller-Jodi Picult
The
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry-Rachel Joyce
The Book
Thief-Markus Zusak
Okay, okay….I
can’t choose between my last 2 favorite reads of 2013. They are:
Wilderness by Lance Weller and The
Human Stain by Phillip Roth.
I loved both of them. And, as different as they seem from each
other, they both tell the stories of men struggling with their pasts. I kind of think that most of my favorite
books are around that theme…interesting.
So that is
it for 2013. Happy Reading to all in 2014. I have a huge number of books sitting on
various book shelves to be read this year, so I need to get to it!
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