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i've also decided to use this entry to keep tabs on all the books etc. i read in 2013. find me on goodreads if you want real-time reviews of the books. bolded are my top 20 favorite books of the year (excluding re-reads).
1. Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales
2. Kirino Natsuo - Real World [translation]
3. Jackson Pearce - Fathomless
4. Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds
5. Terry Pratchett - Dodger
6. Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
7. Rex Stout - Over My Dead Body
8. George Saunders - Tenth of December
9. Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier (eds.) - Zombies Vs. Unicorns
10. Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
11. Tawada Youko - 『光とゼラチンのライプチッヒ』
12. Max Brooks - World War Z
13. Douglas Slaymaker [ed.] - Yōko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere
14. Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link [eds.] - Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
15. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
16. Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders
17. Rex Stout - The Final Deduction
18. Rex Stout - Triple Jeopardy
19. Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
20. Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files
21. Lisa Lutz - The Curse of the Spellmans
22. Lisa Lutz - Revenge of the Spellmans
23. Lori Watt - When Empire Comes Home
24. Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again
25. Maureen Johnson - The Madness Underneath
26. Aaron Gerow - Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
27. Emma Donoghue - Astray
28. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (eds.) - Teeth
29. P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
30. Tanizaki Jun'ichirou - Naomi [re-read, translation]
31. Lurlene McDaniel - How Do I Love Thee
32. Kirino Natsuo - 『グロテスク』 （上）
33. Kirino Natsuo - 『グロテスク』 （下）
34. Melissa F. Olson - Dead Spots
35. Maria Snyder - Touch of Power
36. William Wayne Farris - Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
37. James L. McClain - Japan: A Modern History
38. Yoshinaga Fumi - 『大奥』, vols. 8-9
39. China Miéville - Un Lun Dun
40. Shelley Adina - Brilliant Devices
41. Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
42. Raymond Chandler - The High Window
43. Dave Barry- Insane City
44. Karen Cushman - Alchemy and Meggy Swann
45. Abe Kōbō - The Ruined Map [translation]
46. Georgette Heyer - Detection Unlimited
47. Diane Stanley - The Silver Bowl
48. Diane Stanley - The Cup and the Crown
49. Georgette Heyer - Duplicate Death
50. Gordon Korman - A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag [re-read]
51. Tom Stoppard - The Real Inspector Hound And After Magritte: Two Plays
52. Paula Guran (ed.) - Zombies: The Recent Dead
53. Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar
54. Jen Campbell (ed.) - More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops
55. Gordon Korman - The 6th Grade Nickname Game [re-read]
56. Sharon Shinn - Still Life With Shape Shifter
57. Victoria Hanley - The Light of the Oracle
58. Stephanie S. Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites
59. Stephanie S. Tolan - Applewhites At Wit's End
60. Donald J. Sobol - Angie's First Case
61. Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17
62. Jean Ferris - Thrice Upon a Marigold
63. Kate Elliott - Cold Steel
64. Gordon Korman - No More Dead Dogs
64. Karen Cushman - Rodzina
65. Sarah Rees Brennan - The Demon's Surrender
66. Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison
67. Georgette Heyer - The Unfinished Clue
68. Dorothy Parker - Complete Stories
69. Juliet Marillier - Raven Flight
70. P.G. Wodehouse - Something New
71. Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea
72. Max Weber - The City
73. John Rennie Short - Urban Theory
74. Carrie Vaughn - After the Golden Age
75. Yoshinaga Fumi - All My Darling Daughters
76. A.A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
77. Cornell Woolrich - Rendezvous in Black
78. Franco Moretti - Atlas of the European Novel: 1800-1900
79. P.G. Wodehouse - Summer Lightning
80. Jinnai Hidenobu - Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology [trans.]
81. Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
82. Octavia Butler - Parable of the Talents
83. Erin Bow - Plain Kate
84. Lili Wilkinson - The Zigzag Effect
85. Elizabeth E. Wein - Rose Under Fire
86. William Taylor - Agnes the Sheep [reread]
87. Natsume Souseki - Sanshirou [reread]
88. Stephen Fry - Paperweight
89. Kawabata Yasunari - The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa [trans.]
90. Rainbow Rowell - Attachments
91. Polly Shulman - Enthusiasm
92. Ben Aaronovitch - Broken Homes
93. Baratunde R. Thurston - How To Be Black
94. Robin McKinley - Shadows
95. Gordon Korman - Schooled
96. Eva Ibbotson - The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
97. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 1-2
98. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
99. Zilpha Keatley Snyder - William S. and the Great Escape
100. Katou Atsuko - 『総動員体制と映画』
101. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 3-6
102. Helen Fielding - Mad About the Boy
103. Abe Koubou - 『燃えつきた地図』
104. Jun Uchida - Brokers of Empire
105. Vivian Vande Velde - Tales From the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
106. Franny Billingsley - The Folk Keeper
107. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 7-9
108. T. Fujitani - Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
109. Kelly Y. Jeong - Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
110. Karen Tei Yamashita - Circle K Cycles
111. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 10-15
112. Georgette Heyer - Footsteps in the Dark
113. Karen Cushman - The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
114. Diane Stanley - The Princess of Cortova
115. William Taylor - Break a Leg
here are some links to goodreads reviews of 2013. this is not a list of the best/worst books i read in 2013 but a list of goodreads reviews i particularly liked writing.
reviews of some books i loved:
george saunders, tenth of december
p.g. wodehouse, something new
octavia butler, parable of the sower
elizabeth wein, rose under fire
cornell woolrich, rendezvous in black
reviews of some books i hated:
max brooks, world war z
gilian flynn, gone girl [spoilers in review]
zombies vs. unicorns [some of the stories, not all of them]
sarah rees brennan, the demon's surrender
i've also decided to use this entry to keep tabs on all the books etc. i read in 2013. find me on goodreads if you want real-time reviews of the books. bolded are my top 20 favorite books of the year (excluding re-reads).
1. Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales
2. Kirino Natsuo - Real World [translation]
3. Jackson Pearce - Fathomless
4. Agatha Christie - Death in the Clouds
5. Terry Pratchett - Dodger
6. Rex Stout - The Rubber Band
7. Rex Stout - Over My Dead Body
8. George Saunders - Tenth of December
9. Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier (eds.) - Zombies Vs. Unicorns
10. Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide
11. Tawada Youko - 『光とゼラチンのライプチッヒ』
12. Max Brooks - World War Z
13. Douglas Slaymaker [ed.] - Yōko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere
14. Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link [eds.] - Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
15. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
16. Rex Stout - The Golden Spiders
17. Rex Stout - The Final Deduction
18. Rex Stout - Triple Jeopardy
19. Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
20. Lisa Lutz - The Spellman Files
21. Lisa Lutz - The Curse of the Spellmans
22. Lisa Lutz - Revenge of the Spellmans
23. Lori Watt - When Empire Comes Home
24. Lisa Lutz - The Spellmans Strike Again
25. Maureen Johnson - The Madness Underneath
26. Aaron Gerow - Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925
27. Emma Donoghue - Astray
28. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (eds.) - Teeth
29. P.G. Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves
30. Tanizaki Jun'ichirou - Naomi [re-read, translation]
31. Lurlene McDaniel - How Do I Love Thee
32. Kirino Natsuo - 『グロテスク』 （上）
33. Kirino Natsuo - 『グロテスク』 （下）
34. Melissa F. Olson - Dead Spots
35. Maria Snyder - Touch of Power
36. William Wayne Farris - Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History
37. James L. McClain - Japan: A Modern History
38. Yoshinaga Fumi - 『大奥』, vols. 8-9
39. China Miéville - Un Lun Dun
40. Shelley Adina - Brilliant Devices
41. Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
42. Raymond Chandler - The High Window
43. Dave Barry- Insane City
44. Karen Cushman - Alchemy and Meggy Swann
45. Abe Kōbō - The Ruined Map [translation]
46. Georgette Heyer - Detection Unlimited
47. Diane Stanley - The Silver Bowl
48. Diane Stanley - The Cup and the Crown
49. Georgette Heyer - Duplicate Death
50. Gordon Korman - A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag [re-read]
51. Tom Stoppard - The Real Inspector Hound And After Magritte: Two Plays
52. Paula Guran (ed.) - Zombies: The Recent Dead
53. Rex Stout - Some Buried Caesar
54. Jen Campbell (ed.) - More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops
55. Gordon Korman - The 6th Grade Nickname Game [re-read]
56. Sharon Shinn - Still Life With Shape Shifter
57. Victoria Hanley - The Light of the Oracle
58. Stephanie S. Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites
59. Stephanie S. Tolan - Applewhites At Wit's End
60. Donald J. Sobol - Angie's First Case
61. Samuel R. Delany - Babel-17
62. Jean Ferris - Thrice Upon a Marigold
63. Kate Elliott - Cold Steel
64. Gordon Korman - No More Dead Dogs
64. Karen Cushman - Rodzina
65. Sarah Rees Brennan - The Demon's Surrender
66. Georgette Heyer - Behold, Here's Poison
67. Georgette Heyer - The Unfinished Clue
68. Dorothy Parker - Complete Stories
69. Juliet Marillier - Raven Flight
70. P.G. Wodehouse - Something New
71. Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea
72. Max Weber - The City
73. John Rennie Short - Urban Theory
74. Carrie Vaughn - After the Golden Age
75. Yoshinaga Fumi - All My Darling Daughters
76. A.A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
77. Cornell Woolrich - Rendezvous in Black
78. Franco Moretti - Atlas of the European Novel: 1800-1900
79. P.G. Wodehouse - Summer Lightning
80. Jinnai Hidenobu - Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology [trans.]
81. Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
82. Octavia Butler - Parable of the Talents
83. Erin Bow - Plain Kate
84. Lili Wilkinson - The Zigzag Effect
85. Elizabeth E. Wein - Rose Under Fire
86. William Taylor - Agnes the Sheep [reread]
87. Natsume Souseki - Sanshirou [reread]
88. Stephen Fry - Paperweight
89. Kawabata Yasunari - The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa [trans.]
90. Rainbow Rowell - Attachments
91. Polly Shulman - Enthusiasm
92. Ben Aaronovitch - Broken Homes
93. Baratunde R. Thurston - How To Be Black
94. Robin McKinley - Shadows
95. Gordon Korman - Schooled
96. Eva Ibbotson - The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
97. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 1-2
98. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
99. Zilpha Keatley Snyder - William S. and the Great Escape
100. Katou Atsuko - 『総動員体制と映画』
101. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 3-6
102. Helen Fielding - Mad About the Boy
103. Abe Koubou - 『燃えつきた地図』
104. Jun Uchida - Brokers of Empire
105. Vivian Vande Velde - Tales From the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
106. Franny Billingsley - The Folk Keeper
107. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 7-9
108. T. Fujitani - Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
109. Kelly Y. Jeong - Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema
110. Karen Tei Yamashita - Circle K Cycles
111. Enid Blyton - The Five Find-Outers and Dog series, vols. 10-15
112. Georgette Heyer - Footsteps in the Dark
113. Karen Cushman - The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
114. Diane Stanley - The Princess of Cortova
115. William Taylor - Break a Leg
here are some links to goodreads reviews of 2013. this is not a list of the best/worst books i read in 2013 but a list of goodreads reviews i particularly liked writing.
reviews of some books i loved:
george saunders, tenth of december
p.g. wodehouse, something new
octavia butler, parable of the sower
elizabeth wein, rose under fire
cornell woolrich, rendezvous in black
reviews of some books i hated:
max brooks, world war z
gilian flynn, gone girl [spoilers in review]
zombies vs. unicorns [some of the stories, not all of them]
sarah rees brennan, the demon's surrender