2013 in lists
books:
JANUARY:
1. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
3. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
5. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
FEBRUARY:
6. Christmas at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan
7. The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
8. Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
9. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
MARCH:
10. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
11. A Vision of Loveliness - Louise Levene
12. Q: A Novel - Evan Mandery
13. Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
14. Carte Blanche - Jeffrey Deaver
15. Pandemonium - Lauren Oliver
16. Excellent Women - Barbara Pym
APRIL:
17. The House At Riverton - Kate Morton
18. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
19. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
MAY:
20. Keats - Andrew Motion
21. The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
22. Any Human Heart - William Boyd
23. Brief Lives: Evelyn Waugh - Michael Barber
JUNE:
24. Death Comes To Pemberley - P. D. James
25. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Anne Barrows
26. Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood
27. The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris - Jenny Colgan
28. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
29. Waiting for Sunrise - William Boyd
30. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
JULY:
31. The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
32. Before I Met You - Lisa Jewell
33. I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella
34. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
35. Life after Life - Kate Atkinson
36. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
37. The Wish List - Jane Costello
AUGUST:
38. Maurice - E. M. Forster
39. Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
40. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
SEPTEMBER:
41. 5th Avenue, 5AM. Audrey Hepburn and the Making of Breakfast at Tiffany's - Sam Wasson
42. Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
OCTOBER:
43. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
44. Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
45. The Perfume Collector - Kathleen Tessaro
NOVEMBER:
46. Midnight in Austenland - Shannon Hale
47. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
48. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
49. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff
50. Requiem - Lauren Oliver
DECEMBER:
51. Moranthology - Caitlin Moran
52. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
53. About a Girl - Lindsey Kelk
54. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
movies:
JANUARY:
1. Cloud Atlas
2. Hitchcock
3. Les Misérables*
FEBRUARY:
4. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters*
5. A Good Day to Die Hard*
6. Robot & Frank*
MARCH:
7. Oz the Great and Powerful*
8. Stoker*
9. Identity Thief*
10. Bachelorette
11. The Croods*
12. Welcome to the Punch*
13. Ted
14. Jack the Giant Slayer*
15. The Tempest
16. Trance*
17. Age of Heroes
APRIL:
18. Love Is All You Need*
19. Iron Man 3*
20. Mud*
MAY:
21. Star Trek: Into Darkness*
22. The Big Wedding*
23. Overnight
24. Remember Sunday
JUNE:
25. W.E.
26. Summer in February*
27. Man of Steel*
JULY:
28. Persuasion
29. Song for Marion
30. Monsters, Inc
31. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
32. The Lone Ranger*
33. Warm Bodies
34. Now You See Me*
35. Pacific Rim*
36. The Jane Austen Book Club
37. The World's End*
38. Admission
AUGUST:
39. Wild Child
40. In the Loop
41. Another Cinderella Story
42. We'll Take Manhattan
43. What Maisie Knew*
44. Local Hero
45. About Time*
46. The Lair of the White Worm
47. Northanger Abbey
48. The Way Way Back*
49. She's All That
SEPTEMBER:
50. The First Time
51. Liberal Arts
52. The House Bunny
53. Top Hat
54. The Bling Ring
55. Inside the Mind of Leonardo*
56. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder at Road Hill House
57. Soft Top Hard Shoulder
58. Girl Most Likely*
59. Filth*
60. Sunshine on Leith*
61. Austenland*
OCTOBER:
62. The Fifth Estate*
63. The Oranges
64. Philomena*
NOVEMBER:
65. Saving Mr Banks*
DECEMBER:
66. The Heat
67. The Internship
68. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
69. Children of Men
70. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug*
71. The Proposal
72. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
theatre:
1. One Man, Two Guvnors, Theatre Royal Haymarket - 9 February 2013
2. Top Hat, Aldwych Theatre - 23 February 2013
3. Privates on Parade, Noel Coward Theatre - 2 March 2013
4. The Winslow Boy, The Old Vic - 18 March 2013
5. Spamalot, Playhouse Theatre - 28 March 2013
6. Old Times, Harold Pinter Theatre - 30 March 2013
7. Proof, Menier Chocolate Factory - 6 April 2013
8. A Doll's House, The Young Vic - 8 April 2013
9. Macbeth, Trafalgar Studios - 11 April 2013
10. Sunken Garden, Barbican Theatre - 18 April 2013
11. Merrily We Roll Along, Harold Pinter Theatre - 25 April 2013
12. Before the Party, Almeida Theatre - 1 May 2013
13. Peter & Alice, Noel Coward Theatre - 7 May 2013
14. Passion Play, Duke of York Theatre - 11 May 2013
15. The Hothouse, Trafalgar Studios - 11 May 2013
16. The Tempest, Shakespeare's Globe - 15 May 2013
17. Peter & Alice, Noel Coward Theatre - 27 May 2013
18. A Curious Night at the Theatre, Apollo Theatre - 1 July 2013
19. Private Lives, Gielgud Theatre - 4 July 2013
20. The Moment of Truth, Southwark Playhouse - 6 July 2013
21. The Cripple of Inishmaan, Noel Coward Theatre - 11 July 2013
22. The American Plan, St. James Theatre - 13 July 2013
23. Relatively Speaking, Wyndham's Theatre - 16 July 2013
24. The Ladykillers, Vaudeville Theatre - 19 July 2013
25. Pitmen Painters, Richmond Theatre - 7 August 2013
26. Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre - 19 August 2013
27. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Apollo Theatre - 22 August 2013
28. A Chorus Line, London Palladium - 29 August 2013
29. Chimerica, Harold Pinter Theatre - 11 September 2013
30. Scenes from a Marriage, St James Theatre - 28 September 2013
31. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noel Coward Theatre - 2 October 2013
32. Othello, National Theatre - 5 October 2013
33. The Light Princess, National Theatre - 5 October 2013
34. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, New Wimbledon Theatre - 7 October 2013
35. Macbeth, Shakespeare's Globe - 8 October 2013
36. Jeeves & Wooster: Perfect Nonsense, Duke of York Theatre - 1 November 2013
37. Mojo, Harold Pinter Theatre - 5 November 2013
38. Mojo, Harold Pinter Theatre - 9 November 2013
39. Ghosts, Almeida Theatre - 20 November 2013
40. The Duck House, Vaudeville Theatre - 30 November 2013