Top 10 Books First Read During 2013

[ContinentalOp]

1. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8

[Hugh_Grant]

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
2. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
3. Two Solitudes -Hugh MacLennan

[elixir]

1. Raise the Roof Beam High Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
2. Dubliners, James Joyce
3. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
4. Summer Blonde, Adrian Tomine
5. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
7. Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
8. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
9. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
10. The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus

[elixir]

1. Raise the Roof Beam High Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
2. Dubliners, James Joyce
3. Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace
4. Summer Blonde, Adrian Tomine
5. The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
7. Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
8. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
9. Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
10. The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus

now at ten

[dreamdead]

1. Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
2. Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
3. Albert Camus's The Plague
4. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
5. Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
6. Don Lee's Country of Origin
7. Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds
8. Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer
9. Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse
10. Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
[

Show Spoiler

11. Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
12. Shin Kyung-sook’s Please Look After Mom
13. Stephen King's The Long Walk
14. Nicole Krauss's Great House

]

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. Cell by Stephen King- 7

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. The Mourner by Richard Stark- 8
4. Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale- 7
5. Cell by Stephen King- 7

[Winston*]

Fiction

1. The Power and the Glory (Greene)
2. My Work Is Not Yet Done (Ligotti)
3. Slapstick (Vonnegut)
4. A Red Death (Mosley)
5. A Year in the Linear City (Di Filippo)

Non-Fiction

1. Bad Blood: A Memoir(Sage)
2. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (Harris)
3. Fast Food Nation (Schlosser)
4. Contested Will (Who Wrote Shakespeare)
5. Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers (Roach)

Been pretty slack on the reading front so far this year.

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
3. The Mourner by Richard Stark- 8
4. Dead Aim by Joe R. Lansdale- 7.5
5. Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale- 7
6. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman- 7
7. Cell by Stephen King- 7
8. The Time Machine Did It by John Swartzwelder- 6

[ContinentalOp]

1. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy- 8.5
2. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris- 8.5
3. Flashfire by Richard Stark- 8
4. Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale- 8
5. The Mourner by Richard Stark- 8
6. Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli- 7.5
7. Dead Aim by Joe R. Lansdale- 7.5
8. Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale- 7
9. The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman- 7
10. Cell by Stephen King- 7

11. The Time Machine Did It by John Swartzwelder- 6

[ThePlashyBubbler]

1. The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)
2. Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
3. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (Breece D'J Pancake)
4. A Naked Singularity (Sergio De La Pava)
5. The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
6. Bartleby & Co. (Enrique Vila-Matas)
7. Stories in the Worst Way (Gary Lutz)
8. Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (Javier Marias)
9. Omensetter's Luck (William H. Gass)
10. A Balcony In the Forest (Julien Gracq)

[

Show Spoiler

11. Mulligan Stew (Gilbert Sorrentino)
12. Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
13. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (George Saunders)
14. Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
15. Jesus' Son (Denis Johnson)
16. Stoner (John Williams)
17. The Way Through Doors (Jesse Ball)
18. Woodcutters (Thomas Bernhard)
19. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)
20. The Age of Wire and String (Ben Marcus)
21. A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)

]