Best Books of 2013 that I have read, reviewed and enjoyed.
Just to show how efficient I can be when I want to, here is a table of the baker’s dozen best reads of 2013 with links through to the reviews. I have taken time to marginally adjust the scores out of 100. I see that one publisher, Sandstone Press up in the north of Scotland, has two runners. Well done Bob! My top three, and six out of thirteen are American writers. Let’s see how my massive reading programme for 2014 works out.
Pts
Author
Title
Publisher, etc.
95
Kingsolver, Barbara
London: Faber and Faber, 1999
92
Sloan, Robin
Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
London: Atlantic Books, 2013
90
Williams, John
London: Vintage, 2012
88
Douglas-Home, Mark
The Woman who walked into the Sea
Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2013
85
Catton, Eleanor
London: Granta, 2013
85
Ford, Richard
London: Bloomsbury, 2012
85
Harris, Eve
Dingwall: Sandstone Press, 2012
80
Barberry, Muriel
Paris: Gallimard, 2000
80
Crace, Jim
London: Picador, 2013
80
Ozeki, Ruth
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2013
80
Palliser, Charles
London: W W Norton, 2014
80
Pynchon, Thomas
New York: Penguin Press, 2013
80
Shapiro, B A
Chapel Hill NC: Algonquin Books, 2012
A Happy New Year to all my readers. I hope you will enjoy the travel in time and space that only books can afford.
Seasonally yours
Michael
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