Here I’m listing the 88 books reviewed here in 2013. Included are 46 novels and 42 works of nonfiction. I’ve added the 12 commentaries and FAQs posted in the same year. Every title is linked to its review.
Books reviewed here in 2013: 14 popular novels
Maya’s Notebook by Isabel Allende
Ship Breaker (Drowned Cities #1) by Paolo Bacigalupi
No Way to Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
The Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The City and the City by China Mieville
Books reviewed here in 2013: 32 mysteries and thrillers
The Sound of Broken Glass (Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James #15) by Deborah Crombie
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by J. K. Rowling (Robert Galbraith)
Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
The Redbreast (Harry Hole #3) by Jo Nesbo
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
Victory Square (Yalta Boulevard #5) by Olen Steinhauer
The Sound of Broken Glass (Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James #15) by Deborah Crombie
The Leopard (Harry Hole #8) by Jo Nesbo
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
Live by Night (Coughlin #2) by Dennis Lehane
Silken Prey (Pray #23) by John Sandford
The Shadow Patrol (John Wells #6) by Alex Berenson
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
The Bat (Harry Hole #1) by Jo Nesbo
Inferno (Robert Langdon #4) by Dan Brown
Nemesis (Harry Hole #4) by Jo Nesbø
The Night Ranger (John Wells #7) by Alex Berenson
The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by J. K. Rowling (aka Robert Galbraith)
Alex: The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Frank Wynne
Unseen (Will Trent #9) by Karin Slaughter
A Treacherous Paradise by Henning Mankell
The Double (Spero Lucas #1) by George Pelecanos
Christine Falls (Quirke #1) by Benjamin Black
Critical Mass (V. I. Warshawski #16) by Sara Paretsky
The Last Six Million Seconds by John Burdett
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #14) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller #5) by Michael Connelly
Tatiana (Arkady Renko #8) by Martin Cruz Smith
42 nonfiction books reviewed here in 2013
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians by Peter Heather
Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Geffen
Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks by Tiffany Shlain
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Whelan
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America by Robert Scheer
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Trailblazer: A Biography of Jerry Brown by Chuck McFadden
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water by Peter H. Gleick
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love by David Talbot
Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery by George Johnson
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
12 commentaries and FAQs posted here in 2013
Ten big issues Washington is ducking, and not just under Republicans
Good news for book publishers—and readers of books!
Top 10 trends shaping the future of publishing
A small publisher that thrives in a declining industry
A baker’s dozen of my favorite novels
Narrowing global inequities: a reading list
My top five books about business (plus 25 others)
My three favorite books about science (plus 14 others)
My five favorite books of 2013
