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READING 2013

Attached is a list of the books I read in 2013. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html

Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

January

1 David Quammen 5 ***Spillover AMERICAN 21st 1 SCIENCE 5
2 Anne Tyler 3 ***The Accidental Tourist AMERICAN 20th 1 NOVEL 1
3 Carl Hiaasen 1 Stormy Weather AMERICAN 20th 2 NOVEL 2
4 Richard Ford 2 ****Canada AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 3

February

5 Orhan Pamuk 1 **Snow TURKISH 21st 1 NOVEL 4
6 John Irving 14 *****In One Person AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 5
7 Dave Barry 14 *** Insane City AMERICAN 21st 4 NOVEL 6

March

8 Dave Barry 15 and Ridley Pearson 1 Peter and the Starcatchers AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 7
9 Haruki Murakami 4 Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World JAPANESE 20th 1 NOVEL 8
10 Gary Shteyngart 1 Absurdistan RUSSIAN 21st 1/ AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 8
11 Honore de Balzac Two Poets (Lost Illusions) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 9
12 Tana French 4 **Broken Harbor IRISH 21st 1 NOVEL 10
13 Bob Seltzer 2 Cynk (in mss.) AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 11

April

14 Joseph Conrad 11 **Chance BRITISH 19th 1 NOVEL 12
15 C. S. Godshalk 1 ***Kalimantaan AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 13
16 T. H. White 2 **The Book of Merlyn BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 14
17 Diane Croft 2 **Unseen Partner AMERICAN 21st 8 POETRY 1
18 Jane Roberts 1 The Education of Oversoul Seven AMERICAN 20th 4 NOVEL 15

May

19 Ruth Ozeki 1 ***A Tale for the Time Being AMERICAN 21st 8 NOVEL 16
20 Haruki Murakami 5 **** 1Q1984, Book 1 JAPANESE 21st 1 NOVEL 17
21 Haruki Murakami 6 **** 1Q1984, Book 2 JAPANESE 21st 2 NOVEL 18
22 Haruki Murakami 7 **** 1Q1984, Book 3 JAPANESE 21st 3 NOVEL 19
23 Robert Kalechofsky 2 Great Brain Book (in mss.) AMERICAN 21st 9 PHILOSOPHY 1
24 Ian McEwan 10 The Comfort of Strangers BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 20
25 Carole Martinez 1 *** The Threads of the Heart FRENCH 21st 1 NOVEL 21

June

26 Hugh Howey 1 Wool AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 22
27 Dan Brown 5 Inferno AMERICAN 21st 11 NOVEL 23
28 Khaled Hosseini 3 ****And the Mountains Echoed 21st AFGHAN 1 NOVEL 24
29 A. D. Miller 1 *Snowdrops BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 25
30 Graham Greene 6 ***The Comedians BRITISH 20th 2 NOVEL 26
31 Graham Greene 7 **The End of the Affair BRITISH 20th 3 NOVEL 27

July

32 Christopher Marlowe 4 Dido BRITISH 16th 1 PLAY 1
33 Joan Bragar 1 Leading for Results AMERICAN 21st 12 MANAGEMENT 1
34 Ray Kuzweil 2 **How to Create a Mind AMERICAN 21st 13 COMPUTERS 1/PSYCHOLOGY 1
35 Karen Thompson Walker 1 The Age of Miracles AMERICAN 21s 14 NOVEL 28
36 Dave Eggers 2 A Hologram for the King AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL 29
37 Santiago Gamboa 1 Necropolis COLOMBIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 30
38 J. Courtney Sullivan 1 ****The Engagements AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 31

August

39 J. Courtney Sullivan 2 Maine AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 32
40 Jim Lynch 1 ****The Highest Tide AMERICAN 21st 18 NOVEL 33
41 J. Courtney Sullivan 3 Commencement AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 34
42 Nicholas Christopher 1 A Trip to the Stars AMERICAN 21st 20 NOVEL 35
43 William Boyd 1 ***Ordinary Thunderstorms BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 36
44 Dave Eggers 3 ***What Is the What? AMERICAN 21st 21 NOVEL 37

September

45 Wallace Stegner 2 ****Angle of Repose AMERICAN 20th 5 NOVEL 38
46 Robert Kalechofsky 3 **The Enfolded Brain: Thinking About Thinking AMERICAN 21st 22 PHILOSOPHY 2
47 Jane Smiley 7 Private Life AMERICAN 21st 23 NOVEL 39
48 Toni Morrison 1 Beloved AMERICAN 20th 6 NOVEL 40 [Lynne]

October

49 Rex Sexton 6 ***Paper Moon AMERICAN 21st 24 NOVEL 41
50 Nathan Englander 1 ***For the Relief of Unbearable Urges ISRAELI 21st 1 SHORT STORIES 1
51 Adam Johnson 1 ****The Orphan Masters's Son AMERICAN 21st 25 NOVEL 42

November

52 Ian McEwan 11 ****Sweet Tooth BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 43
53 Dave Eggers 4 ****The Circle AMERICAN 21st 26 NOVEL 44
54 Alexnder McCall Smith 17 ***The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon BOTSWANA 21st 1 NOVEL 45
55 Chang-Rae Lee 1 ***Native Speaker AMERICAN 20th 7 NOVEL 46
56 Mary Baures 1 **Undaunted Spirits AMERICAN 20th 8 PSYCHOLOGY 1
57 William Morris 2 News from Nowhere BRITISH 19th 2 NOVEL 47

December

58 David Grossman 1 ***To the End of the Land ISRAELI 21st 1 NOVEL 48
59 Thomas Pynchon 9 * Bleeding Edge AMERICAN 21st 27 NOVEL 49
60 Chang-Rae Lee 2 ****A Gesture Life AMERICAN 205h 9 NOVEL 50
61 Julian Barnes *The Sense of an Ending [second time] BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 51
62 Jean Giono Colline (in French) FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 52

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