I read some real winners this year. Narrowing it down to 5 best was like being at Total Wine and More (which we have nothing like in Memphis) and knowing what I didn't drink on the spot would have to fit in my carry-on. But after much deliberation, here are the ones I'm most glad to have read:
Beloved - Toni Morrison (anyone know if she's related to Jim?)
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist (full disclosure: I read this in spite of it being recommended by Jay Bastardo.)
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
Goodbye Columbus - Phillip Roth
Honorable mentions to Closely Watched Trains (by Hrabal, who someone turned me onto years ago), The Third Policeman (O'Brian) and Ender's Game (Card), all of which I enjoyed immensely.
Now show me yours.
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I took the year off from reading I feel like. Currently reading a pretty comprehensive Springsteen biography with the latest Chabon on deck to be followed by a non-fiction account of the immediate aftermath of Katrina at Memorial hospital in New Orleans. Big resolution: read again!
Here's everything I read in 2013 ...
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Doctor Sleep
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
My Uncle Oswald
The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (33 1/3)
Sh*t My Dad Says
A Questionable Shape
Legion
Tales from the White Hart (Arthur C. Clarke Collection: Short Stories)
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography
Fiasco
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace
A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
Lurker, you put us to shame. I finished Offit's Magical Thinking: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine and got into An Epidemic of Absence - both fine reads.
I can't stop reading the first two chapters of Taibbi's Griftocracy. It activates the "holy shit!!" area of my brain.
I'm feeling inspired, I think a Poobah Q. Potentate Bastard Challenge is forthcoming...
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