2013 Book Reviews by Rating

A list of my 2013 book reviews by rating. Click the rating to jump to the corresponding section.

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• Drawing Down the Moon: The Art of Charles Vess
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• One Child by Torey Hayden
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

• Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
• Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China by Mitch Moxley
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke, read by B. D. Wong
• The Big Beautiful by Pamela Duncan
• Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood
• The Child Thief by Brom
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler
• Coldwater by Mardi McConnochie
• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family by Dan Savage
• Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren
• A Dash of Magic by Kathryn Littlewood
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
• Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
• The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Heartless by Gail Carriger
• The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
• Magyk by Angie Sage
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Moon Women by Pamela Duncan
• Mountainfit by Meera Lee Sethi
• Naked in Death by J. D. Robb, read by Susan Ericksen
• Oral History by Lee Smith
• The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall, read by Susan Dennaker
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E. B. Hudspeth
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, read by Rebecca Soler
• The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
• The Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey
• Songs of Love & Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews, read by Isabel Keating
• Trader by Charles de Lint
• Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steibeck
• The Trivia Lover’s Guide to the World: Geography for the Lost and Found by Gary Fuller
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• Under the Jolly Roger by L. A. Meyer, read by Katherine Kellgren
• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston

• The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
• The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• The Novel in the Viola by Natasha Solomons
• The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley, read by Jayne Entwistle

• Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama by Lian Hearn
• Across the Nightingale Floor: The Sword of the Warrior by Lian Hearn
• Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
• Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis
• The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
• Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
• The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah
• The Fallen by T. Jefferson Parker, read by David Colacci
• From Notting Hill With Love…Actually by Ali McNamara
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
• The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas, read by Mozhan Marno
• Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
• The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
• The Small Hand by Susan Hill
• Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Lisette Lecat
• Tithe by Holly Black
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg
• White Indian by Donald Clayton Porter
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

• Don’t Look Down by Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer
• The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman by Sena Jeter Naslund
• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker, read by Carrington MacDuffie

• The Company by K. J. Parker
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward, et al.
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

• Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You! by Yuri Rasovsky, read by a full cast

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