2013 Reading List

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

Classic Fiction

  • 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)

Non-Fiction
  • 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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