What I Read in 2013
* - books I really liked


Previous Years
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  December
How Should a Person Be?. Sheila Heti (quickly abandoned)
Happiness for Humans. Daniel Russell (skimmed)
Wilson. A. Scott Berg
Bleeding Edge. Thomas Pynchon (abandoned)
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy. Olivia Manning (abandoned)
The Prime Minister. Anthony Trollope
All That Is. James Salter (abandoned)
Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton


November
Truth Like the Sun. Jim Lynch
Yoga Ph.D. Carol Horton (abandoned)
Why Nations Fail. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (abandoned)
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells. Sebastian Faulks
The Sea. John Banville
Hardwiring Happiness. Rick Hanson


October
Paris. Edward Rutherfurd
The Sound of Things Falling. Juan Gabriel Vasquez (abandoned)
Average is Over. Tyler Cowen
The Paleo Manifesto. John Durant
Creation. Gore Vidal (abandoned)
Cosmopolis. Don DeLillo (abandoned)
Catherine the Great. Robert Massie
Fludd. Hilary Mantel

September
Attempting Normal. Mark Maron
The Age of Absurdity. Michael Foley
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Caesar. Colleen McCullough (abandoned)
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne. Sarah Bakewell 
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Phineas, Redux. Anthony Trollope *

August
Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow
The Good Soldier. Ford Maddox Ford (abandoned)


July
The Sportswriter. Richard Ford (abandoned)
Therapy. David Lodge (abandoned)
The Sheltering Sky. Paul Bowles (abandoned)
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Moshin Hamid 
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Day of the Locust. Nathanael West (abandoned)
Miss Lonelyhearts. Nathanael West
The Eustace Diamonds. Anthony Trollope *
House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family.  Paul Fisher

June
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
The Last Policeman. Ben Winters
How to Meditate. Pema Chodron 
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Edmond Burke: The First Conservative. Jesse Norman

May
The Broom of the System. David Foster Wallace (abandoned)
Zen Confidential. Shozan Jack Haubner (abandoned)
Team of Rivals. Doris Kearns Godwin
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. George Saunders
Let the Great World Spin. Colum McCann
Psmith, Journalist. P.G. Wodehouse

A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life. Lama Marut (skimmed)

April
A Naked Singularity. Sergio De La Pava *
The Jugger. Richard Stark
Phineas Finn. Anthony Trollope

March
Our Man in Havana. Graham Greene (abandoned)
Can You Forgive Her. Anthony Trollope 
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On Moral Ends. Cicero
The Spinoza Problem. Irvin Yalom (abandoned)

February
Solar. Ian McEwan (abandoned)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. Robin Sloan

Washington Square. Henry James
Truth in Advertising. John Kenney
The Last Chronicle of Barset. Anthony Trollope 
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January
Care of Wooden Floors.  Will Wiles
Adventures in the Screen Trade. William Goldman

Tenth of December: Stories. George Saunders
A Working Theory of Love. Scott Hutchins
Wichita. Thad Ziolkowski (abandoned)