2013: What I Read (and what I really liked)

Herewith, a list of all books read in 2013. Roughly in order (I might have switched a couple around), with an asterisk if they deserve special note.

1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck * (with a !)
2. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
3. The Vanishers by Heidi Julavits
4. By Blood by Ellen Ullman
5. The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
6. The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
7. The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
8. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan *
9. The Suicide Index by Joan Wickersham *
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte * (of course)
11. No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie
12. The Gods of Gotham by Lindsay Faye
13. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
14. Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie
15. The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
16. Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
17. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout *
18. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
19. This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz *
20. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayer
21. The Host by Stephanie Meyer
22. What Matters in Jane Austen by John Mullan
23. Harvard Square by Andre Aciman *
24. Where’d You Go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
25. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer *
26. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
27. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain *
28. Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
29. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann *
30. The Cockoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling)
31. Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther
32. Frankenstein by Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley
33. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen *
34. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen *
35. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
36. Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer
37. Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
38. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
39. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri *
40. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
41. The Submission by Amy Waldman
42. Cartwheel by Jennifer duBois
43. A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz *
44. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
45. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
46. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt *
47. Mastering the Art of French Eating by Amy Mah
48. The Circle by Dave Eggers
49. Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture by Dana Goodyear
50. Tenth of December by George Saunders