A list of my book reviews and other blog posts from 2013.
FICTION Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Life After Life by Kate Atkinson Levels of Life by Julian Barnes The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by Joao Cerqueira The Collected Stories by Lydia Davis The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber Under the Skin by Michel Faber Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Canada by Richard Ford Spies by Michael Frayn The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith The Observations by Jane Harris Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson 11.22.63 by Stephen King Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver The Dinner by Herman Koch Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The President’s Hat by Antoine Laurain Small Island by Andrea Levy Take Me to the Castle by F. C. Malby Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel A Heart So White by Javier Marías Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan The Last Life by Claire Messud Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet Red Joan by Jennie Rooney The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling Paris by Edward Rutherfurd Blindness by José Saramago Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields NW by Zadie Smith Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín NON FICTION Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen Bad Science by Ben Goldacre Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby On Writing by Stephen King No Logo by Naomi Klein Whoops! by John Lanchester Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel Back Story by David Mitchell Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn OTHER POSTS Why Libraries Are Important Five Awesome Bookshops in London Are Libraries Killing Bookshops? The Folio Prize: Do We Need Another Literary Award? Blog Birthday Books I Will Probably Never Read The Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist What I’ve Learned From Blogging The Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Readings A. M. Homes wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction Books for Free Five Reasons To Support Your Local Indie Bookshop J. K. Rowling Publishes Crime Novel Under Pseudonym The Man Booker Prize Longlist 2013 Books I Thought I Would Struggle With But Didn’t Best Book to Film Adaptations Am I A Book Snob? The Man Booker Prize: US authors to be considered? Freshly Pressed…Again! Banned Books Week The Man Booker Prize Shortlist Readings Eleanor Catton wins the Man Booker Prize Waterstones Book of the Year 2013 Other Books I Read In 2013 But Didn’t Review Caboodle National Book Tokens Competition The 2013 End of Year Book Survey