Book List Archive 2013

Time for out with the old and in with the new posts recapping the major accomplishments of the past year (and cleaning off the side bar to make room for tracking this year's list). I thought 2013 was going to see far more books under my belt since last year was truly an overachiever one when it came to reading. However, I've had far more energy to be off my couch in recent months and you can't listen to audible while doing yoga like you can while running.

• The Winter of Our Disconnect, Susan Maushart (book club) - this book changed my children's lives and is well worth reading
• A Memory of Light, Wheel of Time #14, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson - so much better than I ever hoped for and well worth the 15 years it took to wait for the end of this series.
• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Rachel Maddow - disturbing and eye-opening
• Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah
• Still Alice, Lisa Genova (book club) - frightening look at Alzheimer's
• The Reservoir, John Miliken Thompson
• Mistborn: The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson 
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
• Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
• 14, Peter Clines - best scifi read this year
• And I Don't Want to Live this Life, Deborah Spungen (book club)
• The Dog Stars, Peter Heller
• Mistorn #2: The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
• Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (book club) - this time I read it instead of listened and loved it even more
• The Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom (book club)
• Mistborn #3: The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson - the ending of this series cemented Sanderson's place as my new favorite fantasy author
• Old Man's War, John Scalzi
• A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness - this was a haunting read that stuck with me a long while
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck (work book club)
• Horns, Joe Hill - one of my very favorite reads this year
• The Rent Collector, Camron Wright (book club)
• Joyland, Stephen King
• Hounded, Kevin Hearne
• The Dog Stars, Peter Heller (my pick for book club so I re-read it in print instead of listening). This is a far different book in print than in audible and I liked the audible far better.
• Hexed, Kevin Hearne
• The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman (book club)
• Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge - not my favorite scifi and proof that if you put something down twice it probably doesn't deserve getting finished
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman - also one of my favorite reads this year - such a great one!
• Mistborn #4: The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson
• Happy Money, Elizabeth Dunn (work book club)
• Slim for Life, Jillian Michaels
• Immortal Instruments: City of Bones, Cassandra Clare - I hope the movies are better than the books
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (book club) - I'm now officially a huge Gaiman fan, too
• Mothers & Other Liars, Amy Bourret (book club)
• No Plot? No Problem!, Chris Baty - oh how I wish I'd read this years ago to make NaNoWriMo easier!
• Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson - read aloud with hubby on our road trip
• The Name of the Wind: The King Killer Chronicles Day One, Patrick Rothfuss - also read aloud for hubby on our road trip after I filled him in on the first half; and yet another epic fantasy series I want to grab the next one immediately.

That's thirty seven books this year. A far cry from the goal I set of fifty but still impressive since the theme this year was apparently fantasy. I read some major tomes that in terms of sheer number of pages alone could count as several books. I set the goal of forty books in 2014. Whether I hit that goal or not, you can be certain I'll be reading every chance I get!