Book List 2013

Another year, another book list! For those of you don't know, I share a Google Doc with a fabulous group of people and we set reading goals for ourselves each year and share and comment on what we're reading throughout the year. Between this group, book club at school, Goodreads and the blog - reading is a huge part of my life! 
The reading widget on the side of my blog (down to the right) is an easy way for you to keep up with what I'm reading on a more consistent basis. But once each year, I like to sum up what I've read and what my favorites were! And so, without further ado, here is the list for 2013...
1. The Global Achievement Gap / Tony Wagner 2. Yes Chef / Marcus Samuelsson 3. Crispin / Avi 4. Beautiful Ruins / Jess Walter 5. Call of the Wild / Jack London 6. Paris in Love / Eloisa James 7. Ender's Game / Orson Scott Card 8. Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson 9. Sharp Objects / Gillian Flynn 10. Sweet Tooth / Ian McEwan 11. Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy / Christopher Hayes 12. When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine / Monica Wood 13. Where'd You Go, Bernadette? / Maria Semple 14. The Newlyweds / Neil Freudenberger 15. Midwives / Chris Bohjalian 16. Home Game / Michael Lewis 17. Treasure Island!!! / Sara Levine 18. Finding Emma / 19. Daughter of Smoke and Bone / 20. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake / Anna Quindlen 21. Open House / Elizabeth Berg 22. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed 23. Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte 24. The Magician's Assistant / Ann Patchett 25. The Road / Cormac McCarthy 26. Home / Toni Morrison 27. Divergent / Veronica Roth 28. Lone Wolf / Jodi Picoult 29. The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien 30. Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me The Teacher I Never Had / Brad Cohen 31. High Fidelity / Nick Hornby 32. Seating Arrangements / Maggie Shipstead 33. Close to Shore / Michael Capuzzo 34. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil / John Berendt 35. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World / Michael Lewis 36. The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing / Melissa Banks 37. Insurgent / Veronica Roth 38. Run / Ann Patchett 39. Admission / Jean Hanff Korelitz 40. Running the Rift / Naomi Benaron 41. Inferno / Dan Brown 42. The Bookseller of Kabul / Anna Seierstad 43. Roots of the Olive Tree / Courtney Miller Santo 44. Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective / Pat Summit 45. The End of the Point / Elizabeth Graver 46. What Tears Us Apart / Deborah Cloyed 47. Twelve Tribes of Hattie / Ayana Mathis 48. The Happiness Project / Gretchen Rubin 49. The Next Best Thing / Elizabeth Weiner 50. Matched / Ally Condie 51. The Fault in Our Stars / John Green 52. Crossed / Ally Condie 53. Here on Earth / Alice Hoffman 54. When We Were Romans / Matthew Kneale 55. A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion / Ron Hansen 56. Marriage Matters / Cynthia Ellingsen 57. Promises to Keep / Jane Green 58. Crispin: At The Edge of the World / Avi 59. Losing It / Cora Carmack 60. Faking It / Cora Carmack 61. Wedding Night / Sophie Kinsella 62. Keeper of Lost Causes / Jussi Adler-Olsen 63. Happier at Home / Gretchen Rubin 64. A Dog's Journey / Bruce Cameron 65. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian / Sherman Alexie 66. The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman 67. Allegiant / Veronica Roth 68. The Darkest Minds / Alexandra Bracken 69. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed / Alexis Ohanian 70. Looking for Alaska / John Green  71. Wonder / R.J. Palacio 72. Making Toast / Roger Rosenblatt 73. Silver Linings Playbook / Matthew Quick 74. Reached / Ally Condie 75. My Escapee / Corina Vallianatos 76. Market Street / Anita Hughes 77. The Weight of Water / Anita Shreve 78. Paper Towns / John Green 79. Revenge Wears Prada / Lauren Weisberger
Wow - what a year for reading! Not quite my 93 from 2012 (and here's 2011's list!), but I am still so happy with the reading I did this year. My favorites are above in bold, but so that you don't have to scroll up, here's a quick recap of the favorites:
4. Beautiful Ruins / Jess Walter 15. Midwives / Chris Bohjalian 16. Home Game / Michael Lewis 22. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed 24. The Magician's Assistant / Ann Patchett 27. Divergent / Veronica Roth 37. Insurgent / Veronica Roth 40. Running the Rift / Naomi Benaron 44. Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective / Pat Summit 48. The Happiness Project / Gretchen Rubin 51. The Fault in Our Stars / John Green 66. The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman 67. Allegiant / Veronica Roth
I think my top favorites were definitely the Divergent Series, Wild, and Beautiful Ruins. I also fell in love with John Green this year and have one more book of his (An Abundance of Katherines) to read. Of course, I've already gotten started with this year's book list with one book already read for the year!
What did you read this year? Any must-reads? I'd love to add them to my to-read list!!