Read on!

What have I been doing over the weekend, other than changing up the layout of this site?

Well, as promised, I’ve been compiling my 2013 reading list. After taking some suggestions (I didn’t get many) into consideration and reading some best of 2012 book lists (NPR, Goodreads, among others) and mulling over the books I said I’d read and didn’t quite get to, I’ve compiled a list of 35 books to read this year. It’s a lofty goal, since I’m fairly sure I didn’t break 20 in 2012, but we’ll see!

With no further ado, the list:

1. Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner (non-fiction) 2. On Writing by Stephen King (non-fiction) 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (fiction) 4. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (non-fiction) 5. State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (fiction) 6. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (non-fiction) 7. Radioactive: Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss (non-fiction) 8. A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano (fiction) 9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (fiction) 10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (fiction) 11. The Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel (non-fiction) 12. Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis (fiction) 13. House Rules by Jodi Picoult (fiction) 14. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (fiction) 15. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (fiction) 16. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction) 17. Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen (fiction) 18. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (fiction) 19. The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark (non-fiction) 20. The Charlatan’s Boy by Jonathan Riggs 21. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin 22. The Brontes: Wild Genius On The Moors: The Story Of A Literary Family by Juliet Barker 23. America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation by David Goldfield 24. The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates 25. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick 26. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larsen 27. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 28. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by The Countess of Carnarvon 29. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty 30. Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley 31. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 32. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 33. Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott 34. Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry 35. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender