Books Read (and Listened To) in 2013

During 2013 I finished a grand total of 127 of books.  Of these books 46 were audiobooks (indicated with an asterisk in the list below) and an additional 39 were young adult/children's books.  So that leaves 42 print, adult books.

Grand Prismatic Spring, July 2013

My Top Ten favorites (and it was hard to pick!) were, in no particular order:

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

The Wool series by Hugh Howey

A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depressiont by Ted Gup

Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Collin Cambell

My Antonia by Willa Cather

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

Beauty Queens  by Libba BrayThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood

Icicles at the Library, December 2013

My least favorites were:
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Ice by Shane Johnson

Mountain goat, August 2013

I didn't read as many books as last year even though I still read every day.  The massive Earth's Children series took quite a while to get through, as did The Year of the Happy Woman with all its stopping for reflection and planning.  Also, I don't really like "self-help" books and I kept having to prod myself back to it.  It was good, but it took me literally months to get through it.  Also, I read considerably fewer kid's books.  I had to take a break mid-year in the Earth's Children series.  I was weary of only reading the 700 page books...not to mention lugging them around.  Still, that is pretty darn fabulous epic of a story. 

Fall colors, October 2013

And since I got a Kindle for Christmas (Thanks, Dad!) I guess I will be adding ebooks to the mix in 2014!   I was telling Matt that format doesn't matter so much to me.  I like reading print.  I like reading ebooks.  I like listening to audiobooks.  I like listening to other people reading aloud.  I like to read to others aloud.  It really doesn't matter to me.  I just like reading.    Books are amazing.

Clearing the porch, December 2013

My 2013 book list includes:

• Blood Done Sign My Name (Timothy B. Tyson)*
• Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Adeline Yen Mah)*
• For Better: How the Surprising Science of Happy Couples Can Help Your Marriage Succeed (Terra Parker-Pope)*
• The Little Book of Plagiarism (Richard Posner)
• Reached (Ally Condie)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales (Oliver Sacks)
• Coraline (Neil Gaiman)*
• You Say I'm a Bitch Like It's a Bad a Thing (Ed Polish & Darren Wotz)
• America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped A Nation (Kenneth Davis)*
• Your Brain is God (Timothy Leary)
• Rand McNalley's Historical Atlas of the World
• The Lowbrow Guide to World History (Michael Powell)
• How To Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency (Piers Warren)
• The Land of the Painted Caves (Jean Auel)
• The Long Walk (Richard Bachman)*
• To Everything There Is a Season (Jude Daly)
• Prayer for a Child (Rachel Field & Elizabeth Orton Jones)
• Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl (Virginia Hamilton)
• Father, We Thank Thee (Arthur Wortman & Sue Tague)
• The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve & Ellen Beier)
• Noah's Ark (Peter Spier)
• 'Til The Cows Come Home (Jodi Icenoggle & Normand Chartier)
• When Clay Sings (Byrd Baylor & Tom Bahti)
• The Breadwinner (Deborah Ellis)*
• Stardust (Neil Gaiman)*
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)*
• Burned (Ellen Hopkins)*
• Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)*
• Shelters of Stone (Jean Auel)
• Summer and the City (Candace Bushnell)*
• Are You SURE You Want To Post That?: Smart Social Networking (Gail Hand)
• Wolves in the Walls (Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean)
• The Dangerous Alphabet (Neil Gaiman & Gris Grimly)
• Crazy Hair (Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean)
• Blueberry Girl (Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess)
• Chu's Day (Neil Gaiman & Adam Rex)
• The Carrie Diaries (Candace Bushnell)*
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born (Jamie Lee Curtis & Laura Cornell)
• B is for Beer (Tom Robbins)*
• A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression (Ted Gup)*
• The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life (Sara Avant Stover)
• The War Prayer (Mark Twain)
• Full Circle: A Celebration of Billings Past and Present in Photographs (Lois Cunningham)
• Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold (Jennifer Ackerman)*
• Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness (Susannah Cahalan)*
• Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)*
• Shift (Hugh Howey)
• Reconstructing Amelia (Kimberly McCreight)*
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Leslie T. Chang)*
• Bound By Law? Tales From the Public Domain (Keith Aoki & James Boyle & Jennifer Jenkins)
• Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition (T. Collin Campbell)*
• The Other Way to Listen (Byrd Baylor & Peter Parnall)
• Ring O'Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (L. Leslie Brooke)
• Chanticleer and the Fox (Barbara Cooney)
• Saving Zoe (Alyson Noel)*
• The Other Life (Ellen Meister)*
• The World of Nigel Hunt: The Diary of a Mongoloid Youth (Nigel Hunt & Douglas Hunt)
• Wool (Hugh Howey)
• Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories (Barbara Duncan)*
• I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly (Kristina Gregory)*
• The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)*
• True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries (Valerie Nye & Kathy Barco)
• Hope for the Flowers: A Tale Partly About Life Partly About Revolution and Lots about Hope for Adults and Others (Including Caterpillars who can read) (Trina Paulus)
• A Story, A Story (Gail Haley)
• Joseph Had A Little Overcoat (Simms Taback)
• The Princess and the Pea (Janet Stevens)
• Island: A Story of the Galapagos (Jason Chin)
• Abe Lincoln's Dream (Lane Smith)
• My Antonia (Willa Cather)*
• Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foodhardiness in the First National Park (Lee H. Whittlesey)
• Images You Should Not Masturbate To (Graham Johnson & Rob Hibbert)
• The Numerati (Stephen Baker)*
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Peggy Orenstein)*
• I Can Read With My Eyes Shut (Dr. Seuss)
• The SCAR Project (David Jay)
• The Plains of Passage (Jean Auel)
• Are You My Mother? (P.D. Eastman)
• In a People House (Dr. Seuss)
• The Cat in the Hat Came Back (Dr. Seuss)
• The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)
• Dr. Seuss's ABC's (Dr. Seuss)
• Hop on Pop (Dr. Seuss)
• My Brother's Book (Maurice Sendak)
• The Little House (Virginia Lee Burton)
• Ice (Shane Johnson)*
• A Morning's Work (Stanley Burns, M.D.)
• Against Medical Advice (James Patterson & Hal Friedman)*
• Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (Karen Armstrong)*
• The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (W. Paul Young)*
• The Food of a Younger Land (Mark Kurlansky)*
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)*
• The Mammoth Hunters (Jean Auel)
• Wise Women Said These Things (Helen H. Moore)
• Harveys Alphabet of Bristol Cream (Adrian Ball)
• The Meaning of Life (Bradley Trevor Greive)
• Tomorrow: Adventures in an Uncertain World (Bradley Trevor Greive)
• Montana Impressions (John Lambing)
• The Valley of Horses (Jean Auel)
• Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater (Frank Bruni)*
• When We Went to the Mountains (Hap Gilliland)
• Make of My Life a Prayer (Charles Fillmore et al)
• Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (Dr. Seuss)
• Fox in Socks (Dr. Seuss)
• Once Upon A Potty (Alona Frankel)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)*
• The Eleventh Plague (Jeff Hirsch)*
• The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean Auel)
• Beauty Queens (Libba Bray)*
• Islamic Stories for Muslims and Non-Muslims
• The Gardener (S.A. Bodeen)*
• Uppity Women of Medieval Times (Vicki Leon)
• A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Aldo Leopold)
• Matilda (Roald Dahl)*
• Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapman (Esme Raji Codell & Lynne Rae Perkins)
• Susannah the Pioneer Cow (Miriam Mason)
• Lost Boy (Brent Jeffs)*
• Thank Your Wicked Parents: Blessings From A Difficult Childhood (Richard Bach)
• School Is Hell: A Cartoon Book (Matt Groening)
• The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King - A Nonfiction Thriller (James Patterson & Martin Dugard)*
• Skipping Christmas (John Grisham)
• Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Barbara Ehrenreich)*
• Prayers at Mealtime (Sister Mary Teresa)
• From the Heart of Lizzie: A Fictional Story of a Girl Who Grows Up on a Farm in Minnesota in the 1930's and 1940's (Julie Welle Verzuh)
• Tracks: The Exhilarating Tale of a Willful Woman's Solo Trek Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback (Robyn Davidson)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)*
• Treasures From the Attic: The Extraordinary Story of Anne Frank's Family (Mirjam Pressler)*