2013 Books

Books I Read in 2013

To understand the list: 
G = Horace Greeley High School English [AP English Literature and Literature of Childhood]
100 = Modern Library's Choices (why Modern Library? explanation here!!!!)
SR = Summer Reading
D = Dartmouth [The Global Politics of Soccer, the Cold War & American Life, and Spanish Culture & Conversation]
WR = Winter Reading

Hyperlinked titles go to my blog post on the book

Happy New Year!!
List after the break (it's sort of long...)

1. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carré 
2. Hard Times - Charles Dickens (G)
3. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys (100)
4. A Room With a View - E.M. Forester (100)
5. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid - Shani Boianjiu 
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (G)
7. Charlotte's Web - E. B. White (G)
8. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
9. Beloved - Toni Morrison (G)
10. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling
11. Pale Fire - Vladmir Nabokov (100)
12. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket (G)
13. The Agency - Y.S. Lee
14. Cosmopolitan Greetings - Allen Ginsberg (G)
15. The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad (100)
16. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
17. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (G)
18. Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
19. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone - J. K. Rowling (G)
20. Henderson The Rain King - Saul Bellow (100)
21. GraceLand - Chris Abani
22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (G) (100)
23. Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (G)
24. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan - Rajiv Chandrasekaran 
25. Montana 1948 - Larry Watson (G)
26. A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen (G)
27. Howard's End - E.M. Forester (100)
28. Of Mice and Men - John Steinback
29. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder (G) (100)
30. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
31. The Pearl - John Steinback
32. East of Eden - John Steinback (G)
33. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene (100)
34. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (100)
35. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender
36. Mister Pip - Lloyd James
37. House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (100) (SR)
38. Tales from 1,001 Nights - Anonymous (translated by Malcom & Ursula Lyons) (SR)
39. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid (SR)
40. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - John Steinbeck (SR)
41. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
42. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
43. Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand (SR) 
44. The Tourist - Olen Steinhauer
45. HIVE: Escape Velocity - Mark Walden 
46. The Unknowns - Gabriel Roth
47. The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galibrath (J. K. Rowling)
48. Crónica de una muerte anunciada - Gabriel García Márquez (D)
49. Divergent - Veronica Roth
50. On The Beach - Nevil Shute (D)
51. The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917 – 1953 - Melvyn P. Leffler (D)
52. Insurgent - Veronica Roth
53. Goals for Galilee: The Triumphs and Traumas of the Sons of Sakhnin - Jerrold Kessel (D)
54. Cold War Civil Rights - Mary Dudziak (D)
55. Suburban Warriors - Lisa McGirr (D)
56. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt (D)
57. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
58. The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman (WR)
59. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh (WR)
60. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Gregory Boyle (WR)
61. Hiroshima - John Hersey  (WR)
62. This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz (WR)
63. Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt (WR)
64. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks (WR)
65. The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer
66. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (100)
67. A Passage to India - E. M. Forester (100)
68. The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
69. The Goldfinch - Donna Tart
70. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
71. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad (100)
72. A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes (100)
73. Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (100)

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