Read in 2013

Rating system
1 star – If I finished it, shame on me.
2 stars – I wanted to see how it ended, but it was just okay.
3 stars – I liked it.
4 stars – I loved it.
5 stars – It was brilliant and you should read it immediately – in fact, everyone should.

January:

1. Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery – 5 stars – my review

2. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin – 5 stars – my review

3. Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review

4. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

5. More Baths, Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself by Nick Hornby – 4 stars – my review

6. My Antonia by Willa Cather – 4 stars – my review

7. Promised by Caragh O’Brien – 4 stars – my review

8. The Map of the Sky by Felix J. Palma – 5 stars – my review

9. The Lion Is In by Delia Ephron – 4 stars – my review

10. Picnic, Lightning: Poems by Billy Collins – 5 stars – my review

11. Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins – 5 stars – my review

12. Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (read-aloud) – 4 stars – my review

February:

13. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – 5 stars – my review

14. Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

15. The Blood Binding: A Belladonna Johnson Story by Helen Stringer (read-aloud) – 4 stars – my review

16. White Horse by Alex Adams – 4 stars – my review

17. Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon – 4 stars – my review

18. Dark Magic by James Swain (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

19. Small Damages by Beth Kephart – 5 stars – my review

20. What We Saw At Night by Jacquelyn Mitchard (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

21. Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh – 3 stars – my review

22. Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers – 3 stars – my review

23. 3500: An Autistic Boy’s Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles – 4 stars – my review

24. The Host by Stephenie Meyer – 5 stars

March:

25. Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

26. Bleak House by Charles Dickens – 3 stars – my review

27. A Parachute in the Lime Tree by Annemarie Neary – 4 stars – my review

28. Safe House by Chris Ewan (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

29. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – 2 stars – my review

30. Shades of Earth by Beth Revis – 5 stars – my review

31. Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman – 5 stars – my review

32. Brooklyn Bones by Triss Stein (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review

33. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me by Ellen Forney – 3 stars – my review

34. The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan – 3 stars – my review

35. Temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors – 4 stars – my review

36. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman – 3 stars – my review

April:

37. Time and Again by Jack Finney – 3 stars – my review

38. Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution by Avi (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review

39. Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton – 4 stars – my review

40. Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson – 4 stars – my review

41. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult – 4 stars – my review

42. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck – 3 stars – my review

43. The Twelve by Justin Cronin (audiobook) – 4 stars – my review

44. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton – 4 stars

45. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review

46. Pirate King by Laurie R. King – 4 stars – my review

May:

47. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (audiobook) – 5 stars – my review

48. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton – 4 stars

49. A Dublin Student Doctor by Patrick Taylor – 4 stars – my review

50. Hate List by Jennifer Brown – 5 stars – my review

51. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – 5 stars

52. London Falling by Paul Cornell – 4 stars – my review

53. A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash – 4 stars – my review

54. The Pact by Jodi Picoult – 5 stars – my review

55. Level 2 by Lenore Applehans (audiobook) – 3 stars – my review

56. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton – 4 stars

57. The Original 1982 by Lori Carson – 3 stars

58. The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian – 4 stars – my review

59. The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio – 3 stars