Book-keeping 2013

I’m missing a book and I can’t work out which it is….


My favourite reads of 2013 are bolded:



1: Mistwood – Leah Cypess

2: The Hobbit – Tolkien

3: The Fault in Our Stars – John Green

4: Where Things Come Back – John Corey Whaley

*5: From Where You Dream, The Process of Writing Fiction – Robert Olen Butler

6: The Pattern Scars – Caitlin Sweet

7: Household Stories – Grimm

8: Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

*9: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll (my fave of the two, I can read it all the time. Aloud. To other humans, while I laugh)

10: Something Like Normal – Trish Doller (ngl i loved it)

11: Teeth – Hannah Moskowitz

12: Charmed Life – Diana Wynne Jones

*13: Sexing the Cherry – Jeannette Winterson

14: Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

15: The Magicians of Caprona – Diana Wynne Jones

16: Queen’s Hunt – Beth Bernobich.

17: The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells.

18: The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells (That was actually pretty hilarious most of the way. I’ve never read Wells before so I dunno what I was expecting, but not so much humour.)

19: The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury.

20: A Certain Slant of Light – Laura Whitcomb

21: A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs

22: Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

23: Feed – M. T. Anderson

24: Malinda Lo – Huntress

25: Witch Week – Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

*26: Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula Le Guin (I enjoyed it much more this time. Also it made me cry.)

27: Little Brother – Cory Doctorow (reread)

28: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me – various (Kate Bernheimer, editor)

29: The Shining Girls – Lauren Beukes

30: Heaven Eyes – David Almond

31: Undercover – Beth Kephart

32: Sister-Sister – Rachel Zadok

33: Flaming June – Amanda Coetzee

34: The Program – Suzanne Young. :D

35: The House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones *snuggles*

36: In the Night Garden – Catherynne M Valente

37: Speechless – Hannah Harrington

38: Captive Prince 1 – S.U. Pacat

39: Captive Prince 2 – S.U. Pacat Omg these were sheer crack. I need book 3 stat

40: Beasts – Joyce Carol Oates

*41: Farundell – L. R. Fredericks

*42: The Broken Lands – Kate Milford. (OMG SO MUCH LOVE, must read more of her work

*43: The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

44: A Spy in the House – Y.S. Lee

45: Don’t Bite the Bridesmaid – Tiffany Allee

46: The Book of Atrix Wolfe – Patricia McKillip

*47: Alif the Unseen – G Willow Wilson (on my shortlist for the year. Hmm I should star those so I remember them)

48: Monstrous Beauty – Elizabeth Fama

49: The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller

50: The Fox Woman – Kij Johnson

51: Code Name Verity – ELizabeth Wein

52: How to Suppress Women’s Writing – Joanna Russ

*53: Under the Poppy – Kathe Koja (nnnngghhhhhhhhhhhhhh i am made of jealousy right now)

54: Spin – Robert Charles Wilson

55: On a Red Station, Drifting – Aliette de Bodard

56: The Secret History of Moscow – Ekaterina Sedia

57: Wolves and Witches – Amanda C. Davis, Megan Engelhardt

58: Sharp Edges – S.A. Partridge

*59: The Palace of Curiosities – Rosie Garland. (LOVED this one.)

60: The Big Stick – Richard de Nooy

61: Open City – Teju Cole

62: Fire and Thorns – Rae Carson

63: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? – Jeanette Winterson

64: House of Sand and Secrets – Cat Hellisen (lol gr added it to my read book list. I’m like, okay, that’s legit, I guess.)


65: Midsummer Night – Freda Warrington (nnggghhh soppppppy lushy pretty romantic fantasy, exactly what I needed)

66: Harbinger – Sarah Wilson Etienne

67: Junk – Melvyn Burgess

68: Infidel – Kameron Hurley

69: Wolf at the Door – J. Damask


70: Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs


*71: Allegiance – Beth Bernobich


*72: Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott


73: Cold Magic – Kate Elliott


74: Virtual Light – William Gibson

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