That time of year again. The numbers continue to mount. With the help of the New York Public Library's e-book collection and a new 35-minute commute, I finished 2013 strong. The total was 39 (although that's counting Joe Abercrombie's First Law series as just one book). I decided to organize the recap a little differently this year - by category (with some overlap):
Travel/Adventure/Disaster (ranked by how much they made me want to go/avoid it)
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
Hav, Jan Morris
Solo Faces, James Salter
Roughing It, Mark Twain
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Beach, Alex Garland
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
The Terror, Dan Simmons
Science Fiction/Dystopia (ranked by how much (little) I'd want to live there)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
A Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Wool, Hugh Howey
Fantasy/Historical Fiction (ranked on that axis by relation to reality)
The First Law, Joe Abercrombie
The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
The Gnoll Credo, J. Stanton
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
The Terror, Dan Simmons
Hav, Jan Morris
Danny the Champion of the World, Roald Dahl
Lion of Ireland, Morgan Llywelyn
The White Company, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Iron King, Maurice Druon
Series-es (ranked by how much it made me want to finish all the books)
The Iron King, Maurice Druon
The First Law, Joe Abercrombie
The Dying Earth, Jack Vance
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Economics (ranked by how technically the term applies)
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith
The Gundrisse, Karl Marx
What Money Can't Buy, Michael Sandel
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, Anthony Tjan, Richard Harrington, and Tsun-Yan Hsieh
The Peter Principle, Laurence Peter
Manthropology, Peter McAllister
War (ranked chronologically (how boring!))
The General in his Labyrinth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
Human Voices, Penelope Fitzgerald
Boyd, Robert Coram
Word of Honor, Nelson DeMille
The Black Banners, Ali Soufan
Americana (organized from east to west)
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
Breaks of the Game, David Halberstam
Roughing It, Mark Twain
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
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