A list of every book read in 2013.

Key: DNF = Did Not Finish, Deferred = Set aside (but will come back to at a later date), F = Fiction, NF = Non-Fiction.

Any link will take you to my review, titles in green are yet to be reviewed here and each paragraph is a month’s reading.

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1) George Orwell – The Road to Wigan Pier (Non-Fic)
2) John Sutherland – Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet (Non-Fic)
3) Daniel Defoe – A Journal of the Plague Year (Non-Fic)
4) Haruki Murakami – Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Non-Fic)
5) Vladimir Nabokov – Details of a Sunset and Other Stories  (Fic)
6) Marghanita Laski – The Victorian Chaise-Longue (Fic)
7) Simon Rich – The Last Girlfriend on Earth and Other Love Stories (Fic)
8) Yoko Ogawa – The Housekeeper + The Professor (Fic)
9) Evelyn Waugh – The Loved One (Fic)
10) Julia Strachey – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (Fic)
11) Judy Fairbairns – Island Wife (Non-Fic)
12) Helen Oyeyemi – Mr Fox (DNF) (Fic)
13) Sue Wilsea – Staying Afloat (Fic)
14) ed. Alan Walbank – Queens of the Circulating Library (Non-Fic)

15) Douglas Robinson (editor) – Becoming a Translator (Non-Fic)
16) Diego Marani – New Finnish Grammar (Fic)
17) ed. Charles Dickens – Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (Fic)
18) Cicely Hamilton – William – An Englishman (Fic)
19) Kate Atkinson – Life After Life (Fic)
20) ed. David Rose – Sexually I’m More of a Switzerland (Non-Fic)
21) Iris Murdoch – Something Special (Fic)
22) Peter Wildeblood – Against The Law (Non-Fic)
23) George Saunders – Tenth of December (Fic)
24) Celia Brayfield – Arts Reviews… and how to write them (Non-Fic)

25) Elisabeth de Waal – The Exiles Return (Fic)
26) Richard Smyth – Bloody British History: Leeds (Non-Fic)
27) Kathleen Jamie – Findings (Non-Fic)
28) W Somerset Maugham – On Literature (Non-Fic) (Extract)
29) Afsaneh Knight – The Sunshine Years (Fic)
30) Araminta Hall – Dot (Fic)
31) A S Byatt – Possession (Fic)
32) Various – Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950 (Non-Fic)
33) Diana Athill – Stet: An Editor’s Life (Non-Fic)
34) Vita Sackville-West – In Your Garden (Non-Fic) (Extract)
35) Gerbrand Bakker – The Detour (Fic)

36) Melissa Harrison – Clay (Fic)
37) Anne Fadiman – Ex Libris (Non-Fic)
38) Claire Keegan – Walk The Blue Fields (Fic)
39) Karl Ove Knausgaard – A Death In The Family (Fic)
40) Émile Zola – The Fortune of the Rougons (Fic)
41) J V Luce – Homer’s Landscapes: Troy and Ithaca Revisited (Non-Fic)
42) Natasha Solomons – The Gallery of Vanished Husbands (Fic)
43) Frank Westerman – Engineers of the Soul (Non-Fic)
44) Mary Wollstonecraft – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Non-Fic)
45) Paula Lichtarowicz – The First Book of Calamity Leek (Fic)

46) David Allan – A Nation of Readers: The Lending Library in Georgian England (Non-Fic)
47) Homer/Robert Fagles – The Odyssey (Fic)
48) Homer/E V Rieu – The Odyssey (Fic)
49) Rose Elliot – Veggie Chic (Non-Fic)
50) Hesiod/M L West – Theogony and Work of Days (Fic)

Marcel Proust – Swann’s Way (Fic) (currently reading)
Frances Trollope – Widow Barnaby (Fic) (currently reading)
Niki Segnit – The Flavour Thesaurus (Non-Fic) (currently reading)
Nigel Slater – The Kitchen Diaries II (Non-Fic) (currently reading)
Alison Moore – The Pre-War House and Other Stories (Fic) (currently reading)
Robert Graves – Greek Myths I (Fic) (currently reading)

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Failed the 100 Page Test:

Artemis Cooper – Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure (Non-Fic)
Natsume Soseki – The Gate (Fic)
Yasutaka Tsutsui – Paprika (Fic)
Nicholas Royle – First Novel (Fic)
David Lodge – Language of Fiction (Non-Fic)
Maria Semple – Where’d You Go Bernadette (Fic)
John Sutherland and Stephen Fender – Love, Sex, Death & Words (Non-Fic)
Henry James – The Wings of the Dove (Fic) (Thoughts – Before / After)
Kate Atkinson – Human Croquet (Fic)
László Krasznahorkai – Satantango (Fic)
Enrique Vila-Matas – Dublinesque (Fic)
Ros Barber – The Marlowe Papers (Fic)
Ben Aaronovitch – Rivers of London (Fic)
Ioanna Bourazopoulou – What Lot’s Wife Saw (Fic)
Richard Morris – Time’s Anvil (Non-Fic)
Graeme Davis – Solving Genealogy Problems (Non-Fic)