{"id":246,"date":"2014-01-09T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivereadthis.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-01-09T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T00:09:35","slug":"books-ive-read-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivereadthis.com\/2014\/01\/09\/books-ive-read-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Ive Read in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who followed my dalliances into blogging<\/a> while I was at WordFest<\/a>,  you will recognize this list of mine. It’s a record of every book I read this year, in order of reading. Not the most exciting post I’ve ever made, but I find that people are interested in this nonetheless, so I’ll throw it up here anyway. And yes, you will notice I read 15 less books in 2013 than I did in 2012 and 2011. Why is that? Well I no longer work for a literary festival, and my current job description doesn’t include “reading books”, so unfortunately I have less hours in the day to enjoy my favourite pastime.<\/p>\n

If you want to know what I thought of these books, some of them link directly to reviews I’ve written on this blog for them, or on-air reviews I’ve given. Just because I didn’t write a review on the book doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. In fact, I’d like to write reviews on all the books I read, but I simply don’t have the time (see above reasoning), and I’d much rather spend my time reading than attempting to write witty yet interesting anecdotes about 65 different books.<\/p>\n

You’ll notice a wide range of titles here-some of that is due to the fact that I was reading books in preparation for my CBC appearances, which required very different genres than I am used to. I can always find redeeming qualities to every book (seriously, I can) so I really enjoyed that experiment.<\/p>\n

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  1. How Should a Person Be?<\/em> by Sheila Heti<\/li>\n
  2. The Marriage Plot<\/em> by Jeffrey Eugenides<\/li>\n
  3. The Lion Seeker<\/em> by Kenneth Bonert<\/li>\n
  4. A Beautiful Truth<\/em> by Colin McAdam<\/li>\n
  5. The Miracles of Ordinary Men<\/em> by Amanda Leduc<\/li>\n
  6. The Rapture<\/em> by Liz Jensen<\/li>\n
  7. The Village<\/em> by Nikita Lalwani<\/li>\n
  8. The Truth About Luck<\/em> by Iain Reid<\/li>\n
  9. The Dilettantes: A Novel<\/em> by Michael Hingston<\/li>\n
  10. Gone Girl<\/em> by Gillian Flynn<\/li>\n
  11. Life After Life<\/em> by Kate Atkinson<\/li>\n
  12. The Demonologist<\/em> by Andrew Pyper<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Roost<\/em> by Ali Bryan<\/li>\n
  14. Reconciliation<\/em> by Dorothy Speak<\/li>\n
  15. You Are a Cat<\/em> by Sherwin Tija<\/li>\n
  16. The Green and Purple Skin of the World<\/em> by Paulo da Costa<\/li>\n
  17. The Gargoyle<\/em> by Andrew Davidson<\/li>\n
  18. Speaking From Among the Bones<\/em> by Alan Bradley<\/li>\n
  19. Caught<\/em> by Lisa Moore<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Canary<\/em> by Nancy Jo Cullen<\/li>\n
  21. How to Host a Dinner Party<\/em> by Corey Mintz<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Festival Man<\/em> by Geoff Berner<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Emancipation Day<\/em> by Wayne Grady<\/li>\n
  24. Out of Their Minds<\/em> by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite<\/li>\n
  25. Ghana Must Go<\/em> by Taiye Selasi<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Ballistics<\/em> by D.W. Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Hellgoing<\/em> by Lynn Coady<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Screw Everyone<\/em> by Ophira Eisenberg<\/li>\n
  29. Secret<\/em> by L.M. Adeline<\/li>\n
  30. The Blind Man’s Garden<\/em> by Nadeem Aslam<\/li>\n
  31. The Deep Whatsis<\/em> by Peter Mattei<\/li>\n
  32. Children of the Jacaranda Tree<\/em> by Sahari Delijani<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Dance,  Gladys Dance<\/em> by Cassie Stocks<\/a><\/li>\n
  34. The Dark<\/em> by Claire Mulligan<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. Let’s Explore Owls with Diabetes<\/em> by David Sedaris<\/li>\n
  36. Little Cat<\/em> by Tamara Faith Berger<\/li>\n
  37. The Devil & the Detective<\/em> by John Goldbach<\/a><\/li>\n
  38. Death at Christy Burke’s<\/em> by Anne Emery<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. Beautiful Day<\/em> by Elin Hildebrand<\/a><\/li>\n
  40. Where’d You Go Bernadette<\/em> by Maria Semple<\/a><\/li>\n
  41. Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> by Kevin Kwan<\/a><\/li>\n
  42. I Know Who You Remind Me Of<\/a><\/em> by Naomi Lewis<\/a><\/li>\n
  43. The Family Took Shape<\/em> by Shashi Bhat<\/a><\/li>\n
  44. This is How you Die<\/em>-Various Authors, Edited by Ryan North and Others<\/a><\/li>\n
  45. Life Without Death<\/em> by Peter Unwin<\/a><\/li>\n
  46. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked<\/em> by James Lasdun<\/a><\/li>\n
  47. Almost a Great Escape<\/em> by Tyler Trafford<\/a><\/li>\n
  48. The Woman Upstairs<\/em> by Claire Messud<\/a><\/li>\n
  49. Burning from the Inside<\/em> by Christine Walde<\/a><\/li>\n
  50. Night Film<\/em> by Marisha Pessl<\/a><\/li>\n
  51. Everything is so Political<\/em> by Sandra McIntyre<\/a><\/li>\n
  52. The Universe Versus Alex Woods<\/em> by Gavin Extence<\/li>\n
  53. The Circle<\/em> by Dave Eggers<\/a><\/li>\n
  54. Worst. Person. Ever.<\/em> by Douglas Coupland<\/a><\/li>\n
  55. Cataract City<\/em> by Craig Davidson<\/a><\/li>\n
  56. Muse<\/em> by Mary Novik<\/li>\n
  57. Joseph Anton<\/em> by Salman Rushdie<\/a><\/li>\n
  58. Are You Ready to be Lucky?<\/em> by Rosemary Nixon<\/a><\/li>\n
  59. Mrs. Poe<\/em> by Lynn Cullen<\/a><\/li>\n
  60. Corpse Flower<\/em> by Gloria Ferris<\/a><\/li>\n
  61. Mother, Mother<\/em> by Koren Zailckas<\/a><\/li>\n
  62. Life Class<\/em> by Ann Charney<\/a><\/li>\n
  63. Eleven Pipers Piping<\/em> by C.C. Benison<\/a><\/li>\n
  64. Bedrock Faith<\/em> by Eric Charles May<\/a><\/li>\n
  65. The Guts<\/em> by Roddy Doyle<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what do you think? Do I need to read more, or should I be embarrassed that I spend this much of my life reading already?<\/p>\n

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