Books Read 2013


January (9)
Fer-de-Lance - Rex Stout
The Clothes They Stood Up In - Alan Bennett 
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America - Bill Bryson
Nobody's Perfect - Donald Westlake
Moranthology - Caitlin Moran
Things That Are - Amy Leach
Why Me? - Donald Westlake
Counting My Chickens... - The Duchess of Devonshire
Murder in the Mews - Agatha Christie

February (7)
The Art of the Handwritten Note - Margaret Shepherd
Good Behavior - Donald Westlake
The Baker Street Letters - Michael Robertson
House of Evidence - Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson
2012 Best American Essays - David Brooks, editor
2012 Best American Mysteries - Robert Crais, editor
The Brothers of Baker Street - Michael Robertson

March (9)
Kinsey and Me - Sue Grafton
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty                 
      Attempts at an Answer - Sarah Bakewell 
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers - Anne Lamott
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
A Glass of Blessings - Barbara Pym
Crampton Hodnet - Barbara Pym
The Fugitive Pigeon - Donald Westlake
Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
Orchestrated Death - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

April (11)
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
West With the Night - Beryl Markham
The Spellman Files - Lisa Lutz
The Baker Street Translation - Michael Robertson
The Curse of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
This Pen for Hire - Laura Levine
A Blunt Instrument - Georgette Heyer
Abraham Lincoln - George S. McGovern
The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper - C. Marina                  
                                                                               Marchese
Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell

May (9)
Double Sin - Agatha Christie
The 100 Thing Challenge - Dave Bruno
Mama Does Time - Deborah Sharp
The PMS Murders - Laura Levine
August Folly - Angela Thirkell
Summer Half - Angela Thirkell
Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell
Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell
Headlong - Michael Frayn

June (8)
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books - Leah Price
The Vintage Caper - Peter Mayle
Letters to a Young Scientist - Edward O. Wilson
Equilateral - Ken Kalfus
Invitation to Die - Helen Smith
The Reluctant Tuscan - Phil Doran
The Writer Who Stayed - William Zinsser
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

July (8)
How to Do Everything and Be Happy - Peter Jones
Murder at Sissingham Hall - Clara Benson
Forever, Erma - Erma Bombeck
Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit - P.G. Wodehouse
The Last Detective - Peter Lovesey
A Jane Austen Education - William Deresiewicz
Practical Classics: 50 books from high school - Kevin Smokler

August (9)
The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
The Cold Light of Mourning - Elizabeth J. Duncan
Diamond Solitaire - Peter Lovesey
So Big - Edna Ferber
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (and) Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All - David Foster Wallace
Drowned Hopes - Donald Westlake
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things - Paula Byrne
The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters
Killer in Crinolines - Duffy Brown

September (10)
Sum - David Eagleman
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
The Summons - Peter Lovesey
Mama Makes Up Her Mind - Bailey White
Come, Tell Me How You Live - Agatha Christie Mallowan
The Ladies of the Field - Amanda Adams
Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman
Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett
Hit Man (Keller) - Lawrence Block

October (7)
The Portuguese Passage (Julia Probyn) - Ann Bridge
School of Fear - Gitty Daneshvari
Stuff to Die For - Don Bruns
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel - Bailey White
The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Postmark Paris: A Story in Stamps - Leslie Jonath
The Island of Lost Maps - Miles Harvey

November (10)
Bloodhounds - Peter Lovesey
The Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life - Deborah Ford
On Love and Barley - Haiku by Basho
The Frozen Thames - Helen Humphreys
My Connemara - Paula Steichen
Carl Sandburg Home - Official National Park Handbook - Paula                                                                                                Steichen
Hit List (Keller) - Lawrence Block
Boston Noir 2: The Classics - Dennis Lehane et. al.
The Bedside Guardian 1978-79 - introduced by John Cleese
Chasing the Storm - Martin Molsted

December (7)
The Numbered Account (Julia Probyn) - Ann Bridge
At Home - Bill Bryson
Cross Creek - Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
What's the Worst That Could Happen? - Donald Westlake
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith
A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas
The Shape of a Year - Jean Hersey

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