THE BEST BOOKS I READ IN 2013
HONORABLE MENTION
BOOKS THAT I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO LOVE... BUT DIDN'T
COMPLETE READING LIST FOR 2013
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (1939)
- Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott (1819)
- The Call of the Wild - Jack London (1903)
- The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1) - C.S. Lewis (1955)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #1) - Mark Twain (1876)
Fiction
- Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty (1985)
- Picture Perfect - Jodi Picoult (1995)
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (1997)
- Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (1997)
- Native Speaker - Chang-Rae Lee (1995)
- He Died All Day Long - Jon Wells (2013)
- Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) - George R.R. Martin (1996)
- Under the Bright Lights (Rene Shade, #1) - Daniel Woodrell (1986)
- Continental Drift - Russell Banks (1985)
- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Amos Tutuola (1954)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) - Stieg Larsson (2006)
- Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold - Marq de Villiers & Shiela Hirtle (2007)
- Exhaust The Limits: The Life and Times of Global Peacebuilder - Charles F. Dambach (2010)
- The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation - Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff (2006)
- The Soul of Money: Reclaiming the Wealth of Our Inner Resources - Lynne Twist (2003)
- Bus Ride to Justice - Fred Gray (1994)
- Staking a Claim: Jake Simmons, Jr. and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty - Jonathan Greenberg (1989)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard (1974)
- Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and the Perfect Knuckleball - R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey (2012)
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - Tom Reiss (2012)
- Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting - Meredith Norton (2008)
- What's Next?: Dispatches on the Future of Science - Max Brockman (2009)
- The Work of the Imagination - Paul L. Harris (2000)
- Disintegration - Eugene Robinson (2010)
- For Us Surrender is Out of the Question - Mac McClelland (2010)
- The One Minute Manager - Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D. & Spencer Johnson, M.D. (1981)
Spanish & Portuguese Language
- El país bajo mi piel: Memorias de amor y guerra - Gioconda Belli (2000)
- Sexualidad de la Pantera Rosa - Efraim Medina Reyes (2004)
- Mi fuga hacia la libertad - John Pinchao (2008)
- Hija de la fortuna - Isabel Allende (1999)
- Operación Pablo Escobar - Germán Castro Caycedo (2012)
- María - Jorge Isaacs (1867)
- García Márquez en Cartagena: Sus inicios literarios - Jorge García Usta (2007)
- El reino de este mundo - Alejo Carpentier (1949)
- Historia de Colombia contemporánea (1920-2010) - Ricardo Arias Trujillo (2011)
- Que viva la música! - Andrés Caicedo (1977)
- Os ásperos tempos (Os Subterrâneos da liberdade, #1) - Jorge Amado (1954)
- Santa Evita - Tomás Eloy Martínez (1995)
- Pedagogia do oprimido - Paulo Freire (1967)
Other
- Othello - William Shakespeare (1603)
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (1940)
- Selected Poems of Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes (1959)
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Picture Book Version) - William Kamkwamba (2012)
- Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (1987)
- I Ching: The Book of Change (Cheng Yi Commentary) - Fu Xi (3rd Millenium BCE)
- Why is Blue Dog Blue?: A Tale of Colors - George Rodrigue (2002)
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