My Year of Books: Best of the Backlist

Everything old is new again. That's certainly the case with my reading habits.   As I lamented earlier this week at the blog , I own more books than I'll ever be able to read in seven lifetimes.  Every time I get a new novel, it's added to the ever-growing To-Be-Read pile (aka Mt. NeverRest), pushing older books even farther down the queue and putting me years behind in my reading of "current releases."  It's a constant, agonizing stress for me.  First World problems.

In 2013...