Zero's 2013 Challenge

Back in form this year.

001. The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver 01/02/13
002. The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster 01/02/13
003. The American by Henry James 01/04/13
004. Watt by Samuel Beckett 01/04/13
005. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 01/06/13
006. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 01/07/13
007. Murphy by Samuel Beckett 01/08/13
008. When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen 01/11/13
009. A Treatise Of Human Nature by David Hume 01/12/13
010. End Zone by Don DeLillo 01/13/13
011. Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline 01/15/13
012. Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski 01/17/13
013. Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev 01/18/13
014. The Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero 01/19/13
015. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates 01/21/13
016. Sintram and His Companions by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 01/22/13
017. Critias by Plato 01/22/13
018. The King by Donald Barthelme 01/23/13
019. Zoo, or Letters Not About Love by Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky 01/24/13
020. The Egoist by George Meredith 01/25/13
021. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym 01/27/13
022. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr 01/28/13
023. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne 01/29/13
024. Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley 01/30/13
025. The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie 01/31/13

026. Man's Hope by Andre Malraux 02/02/13
027. Intrigue and Love by Friedrich von Schiller 02/03/13
028. Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass 02/04/13
029. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison 02/05/13
030. Demolishing Nisard by Éric Chevillard 02/07/13
031. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean 02/08/13
032. Lanark by Alasdair Gray 02/09/13
033. Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth 02/10/13
034. Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya 02/12/13
035. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 02/14/13
036. The Aye-Aye and I by Gerald Durrell 02/15/13
037. Anarchy by Errico Malatesta 02/15/13
038. Areopagitica by John Milton 02/15/13
039. Three Essays on Religion by John Stuart Mill 02/16/13
040. Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 02/16/13
041. The Facts of Reconstruction by John R. Lynch 02/17/13
042. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 02/20/13
043. John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen 02/21/13
044. Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson 02/23/13
045. Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson 02/23/13
046. The Flood by Émile Zola 02/23/13
047. Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller 02/24/13
048. Spring's Awakening by Frank Wedekind 02/24/13
049. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes 02/25/13
050. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde 02/28/13

051. The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee 03/01/13
052. Ballad of Forgotten Years by Abish Kekilbayev 03/01/13
053. The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu 03/04/13
054. Folk Tales and Fables from the Gambia by Dembo and Sukai Bojang 03/04/13
055. The Punitive Squad by Ales Adamovich 03/04/13
056. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton 03/08/13
057. The Aran Islands by J.M. Synge 03/10/13
058. Vathek by William Beckford 03/11/13
059. Alcestis by Euripides 03/11/13
060. The Golden Ass by Apuleius 03/13/13
061. Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz 03/16/13
062. Moderato Cantabile by Marguerite Duras 03/17/13
063. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer 03/18/13
064. Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 03/20/13
065. With the Turks in Palestine by Alexander Aaronsohn 03/20/13
066. The Pretenders by Henrik Ibsen 03/20/13
067. The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning 03/22/13
068. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by by Mary Wollstonecraft 03/23/13
069. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 03/26/13
070. The Spoilt City by Olivia Manning 03/26/13
071. Friends and Heroes by Olivia Manning 03/28/13
072. A Long Day's Evening by Bilge Karasu 03/31/13
073. C by Tom McCarthy 03/31/13
074. The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe 03/31/13
075. Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night by Marguerite Duras 03/31/13

076. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 04/06/13
077. The Wah-Wah Diaries by Richard E. Grant 04/08/13
078. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 04/09/13
079. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare 04/09/13
080. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 04/10/13
081. Vera; Or, the Nihilists by Oscar Wilde 04/10/13
082. Tenth of December by George Saunders 04/11/13
083. Widowers' Houses by Bernard Shaw 04/11/13
084. Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo 04/13/13
085. Quiet by Susan Cain 04/16/13
086. The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers 04/16/13
087. The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc 04/17/13
088. The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan 04/19/13
089. The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas by Marguerite Duras 04/20/13
090. Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett 04/21/13
091. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty 04/23/13
092. Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy by David Pears 04/25/13
093. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor 04/26/13
094. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar 04/29/13
095. The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett 04/29/13
096. There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg 04/29/13
097. The Lesson of the Master by Henry James 04/29/13
098. Fair Play by Tove Jansson 04/30/13
099. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 04/30/13
100. Reticence by Jean-Philippe Toussaint 04/30/13

You certainly are back in form. At this rate you should read 300 this year!

I'd definitely like to clear 300 again -- lets hope I can hold out :)

101. Samuel Crowther by Jesse Page 05/01/13
102. The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob 05/02/13
103. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng 05/03/13
104. The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham 05/04/13
105. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain 05/05/13
106. Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson 05/06/13
107. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence 05/07/13
108. Attempting Normal by Marc Maron 05/08/13
109. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous 05/09/13
110. He and She by Rachel Crothers 05/10/13
111. The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag 05/11/13
112. Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel 05/11/13
113. Aucassin et Nicolette by Anonymous 05/12/13
114. Jefferson the Virginian by Dumas Malone 05/13/13
115. A Family and a Fortune by Ivy Compton-Burnett 05/17/13
116. What Men Live By and Other Stories by Lev Tolstoy 05/17/13
117. Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš 05/18/13
118. Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley 05/19/13
119. Vilnius Poker by Ričardas Gavelis 05/20/13
120. How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique 05/20/13
121. Ghosts by César Aira 05/20/13
122. The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings 05/21/13
123. Mundo Cruel by Luis Negron 05/21/13
124. Told by Starlight in Chad by Joseph Brahim Seid 05/22/13
125. The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani by Velibor Čolić 05/23/13
126. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray 05/25/13
127. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson 05/26/13
128. A Heart So White by Javier Marías 05/26/13
129. Vairagya-Satakam by Bhartrihari 05/26/13
130. The Human Comedy by William Saroyan 05/27/13
131. Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker 05/30/13
132. Song from the Forest by Louis Sarno 05/31/13
133. Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño 05/31/13
134. Protagoras by Plato 05/31/13
135. Berlin Stories by Robert Walser 05/31/13

136. The Man in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli 06/01/13
137. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid 06/02/13
138. Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky 06/03/13
139. Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder 06/04/13
140. The Tinker's Wedding by J.M. Synge 06/05/13
141. Jefferson and the Rights of Man by Dumas Malone 06/06/13
142. The Song of Igor's Campaign by Anonymous 06/06/13
143. The Successor by Ismail Kadare 06/06/13
144. Martha Quest by Doris Lessing 06/08/13
145. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren 06/08/13
146. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth 06/10/13
147. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 06/10/13
148. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba 06/11/13
149. Ambiguous Adventure by Cheikh Hamidou Kane 06/11/13
150. Flight by Mikhaíl Bulgakov 06/13/13
151. Sybil, or the Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli 06/15/13
152. The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac 06/15/13
153. "The Judgment" by Franz Kafka 06/17/13
154. Rob Roy by Walter Scott 06/19/13
155. Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. Bird 06/20/13
156. Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker 06/22/13
157. Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett 06/23/13
158. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 06/24/13
159. The Life of Richard Nash by Oliver Goldsmith 06/25/13
160. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera 06/26/13

161. I the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos 06/29/13
162. Suicide by Edouard Levé 06/30/13
163. Great House by Nicole Krauss 06/30/13
164. Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart 06/30/13
165. Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw 06/30/13
166. Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky 07/04/13
167. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro 07/09/13
168. Baltasar and Blimunda by José Saramago 07/11/13
169. Fujisan by Randy Taguchi 07/13/13
170. Djibouti by Elmore Leonard 07/14/13
171. The Histories by Herodotus 07/17/13
172. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg 07/18/13
173. Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell 07/18/13
174. Station Life In New Zealand by Lady Barker 07/19/13
175. The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud 07/20/13

176. Artistes and Admirers by Aleksandr Ostrovsky 07/20/13
177. Faustus by David Mamet 07/21/13
178. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards 07/23/13
179. Cavalcade by Noël Coward 07/23/13
180. Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly 07/24/13
181. Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard 07/25/13
182. What is the What by Dave Eggers 07/28/13
183. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett 07/28/13
184. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett 07/30/13
185. Recollections of Bush Life in Australia by Henry William Haygarth 07/31/13
186. Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford 08/01/13
187. The Enchanted Wanderer by Nikolai Leskov 08/05/13
188. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 08/05/13
189. The Condition of the Working-Class in England by Friedrich Engels 08/06/13
190. Offenses Against One's Self by Jeremy Bentham 08/06/13
191. Faust: Part II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 08/07/13
192. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal 08/09/13
193. Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton 08/09/13
194. The Life and Adventures of Venture by Venture Smith 08/10/13
195. Middle C by William H. Gass 08/12/13
196. John Sherman and Dhoya by W.B. Yeats 08/12/13
197. Voss by Patrick White 08/14/13
198. Roderick Hudson by Henry James 08/15/13
199. Women by Charles Bukowski 08/16/13
200. Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard 08/17/13

201. The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño 08/17/13
202. The Country Wife by William Wycherley 08/17/13
203. The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France 08/18/13
204. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami 08/21/13
205. Snow White by Donald Barthelme 08/22/13
206. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner 08/24/13
207. Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares 08/25/13
208. By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz 08/25/13
209. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas 08/27/13
210. A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss 08/27/13
211. Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides 08/27/13
212. Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare 08/27/13
213. Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Miller Richardson 08/28/13
214. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet 08/29/13
215. Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare 08/29/13

216. The Nether World by George Gissing 08/31/13
217. Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare 08/31/13
218. The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton 09/01/13
219. Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope 09/02/13
220. The Hôtel d'Angleterre and Other Stories by Lanoe Falconer 09/02/13
221. Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold 09/03/13
222. To the Wedding by John Berger 09/03/13
223. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 09/03/13
224. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 09/04/13
225. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski 09/04/13
226. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni 09/13/13
227. One Man's Initiation: 1917 by John Dos Passos 09/14/13
228. Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 09/16/13
229. Experience and Education by John Dewey 09/17/13
230. Taipei by Tao Lin 09/22/13
231. The Great Dissent by Thomas Healy 09/24/13
232. Oblomov by Ivan Gontcharov 09/24/13
233. On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev 09/25/13
234. Damascus by Joshua Mohr 09/25/13
235. The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett 09/26/13
236. Enchiridion of Epictetus by Arrian 09/26/13
237. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir 09/26/13
238. Jonathan Wilde by Henry Fielding 09/27/13
239. My Life by Anton Chekhov 09/28/13
240. Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué 09/28/13
241. The Black Count by Tom Reiss
242. Red Baron by Manfred Von Richthofen
243. The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan
244. Poor Liza by Nikolay Karamzin
245. Nihilist Girl by Sofia Kovalevskaya

246. Philosophy of Style by Herbert Spencer 10/01/13
247. The Son by Philipp Meyer 10/03/13
248. The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I by Arthur Schopenhauer 10/05/13
249. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre 10/09/13
250. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanáñz 10/10/13
251. Numbers in the Dark by Italo Calvino 10/10/13
252. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup 10/11/13
253. Redburn: His First Voyage by Herman Melville 10/11/13
254. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana 10/12/13
255. Lady Barbarina by Henry James 10/12/13
256. Quicksand by Nella Larsen 10/13/13
257. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 10/14/13
258. Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva 10/14/13
259. Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal 10/15/13
260. Brother Jacob by George Eliot 10/15/13
261. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist 10/16/13
262. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty by Dumas Malone 10/16/13
263. Polk by Walter R Borneman 10/17/13
264. Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 10/17/13
265. Glory by Vladimir Nabokov 10/18/13
266. The Pearl of Orr's Island by Harriet Beecher Stowe 10/18/13
267. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild 10/19/13
268. London Fields by Martin Amis 10/20/13
269. Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault 10/21/13
270. Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell 10/22/13
271. Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung 10/22/13
272. The Insurrection In Dublin by James Stephens 10/23/13
273. Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 by Dumas Malone 10/23/13
274. Introducing Trotsky and Marxism by Tariq Ali 10/24/13
275. Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen 10/24/13
276. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton 10/25/13
277. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 10/26/13
278. A Proper Marriage by Doris Lessing 10/26/13
279. Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams 10/27/13
280. Watership Down by Richard Adams 10/28/13
281. William: An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton 10/28/13
282. Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin 10/28/13
283. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 10/30/13
284. Room by Emma Donoghue 10/30/13
285. In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing 10/31/13

Congratulations - but I want to hate you:)

Well, as long as you hate me for the right reasons ;)

Envy is more to the point!

Congrats!

That's okay Penny, you can keep me company on the 'didn't quite make it but had fun trying' podium :)

There's always next year...

286. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 11/02/13
287. The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck 11/03/13
288. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 11/03/13
289. The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus 11/04/13
290. The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm 11/04/13
291. Owen Wingrave by Henry James 11/05/13
292. A Ripple from the Storm by Doris Lessing 11/05/13
293. Harrington by Maria Edgeworth 11/06/13
294. Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes 11/06/13
295. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt 11/06/13
296. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin 11/08/13
297. The Wheel of Time by Henry James 11/08/13
298. The Republic by Plato 11/08/13
299. The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith 11/09/13
300. Animal Spirits by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller 11/09/13
301. Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett 11/10/13
302. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura 11/10/13
303. The Hellhound of Wall Street by Michael Perino 11/11/13
304. Martin Heidegger by George Steiner 11/11/13
305. White-Jacket by Herman Melville 11/12/13
306. Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery 11/12/13
307. Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Gustav Jung 11/13/13
308. The Journey of Coronado by Pedro De Castaneda De Najera 11/13/13
309. Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming 11/14/13
310. Moonraker by Ian Fleming 11/14/13
311. I, Mary MacLane by Mary Maclane 11/15/13
312. Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow 11/16/13
313. I Await the Devil's Coming by Mary Maclane 11/17/13
314. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford 11/18/13
315. Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot by Soyen Shaku 11/18/13
316. Landlocked by Doris Lessing 11/19/13
317. Fragments by Heraclitus 11/19/13
318. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas by Fancis L. McLintock 11/20/13
319. Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore 11/20/13
320. Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber 11/21/13
321. Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger 11/22/13
322. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin 11/22/13
323. Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren 11/23/13
324. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 11/23/13
325. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 11/24/13
326. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin 11/25/13
327. Summa Theologica, Vol. 1 by St. Thomas Aquinas 11/26/13
328. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen 11/26/13
329. Farewell by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud 11/27/13
330. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf 11/27/13
331. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets by Jane Addams 11/28/13
332. The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute 11/28/13
333. Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells 11/29/13
334. All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare 11/30/13
335. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon 11/30/13

What book stands out the most in your mind, for whatever reason, good, bad or indifferent? I asked Danielle and myself the same question.

336. Vis and Ramin by Fakhraddin Gorgani 12/01/13
337. My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant 12/02/13
338. Sophist by Plato 12/02/13
339. The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton 12/03/13
340. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 12/03/13
341. The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell 12/04/13
342. The Trespasser by D.H. Lawrence 12/05/13
343. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe 12/06/13
344. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 12/07/13
345. Theaetetus by Plato 12/07/13
346. The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub 12/08/13
347. The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec 12/08/13
348. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike 12/09/13
349. Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara 12/10/13
350. Émile: Or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 12/11/13
351. Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec 12/12/13
352. Esther Waters by George Moore 12/12/13
353. Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll 12/13/13
354. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino 12/13/13
355. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić 12/14/13
356. Vera by Stacy Schiff 12/15/13
357. The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 12/15/13
358. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami 12/15/13
359. The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing 12/16/13
360. V. by Thomas Pynchon 12/17/13
361. Four New Messages by Joshua Cohen 12/17/13
362. Au Bonheur des Dames by Émile Zola 12/18/13
363. The Ruined Map by Kōbō Abe 12/18/13
364. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières 12/19/13
365. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 12/20/13
366. Persian Letters by Montesquieu 12/20/13
367. Julian by Gore Vidal 12/21/13
368. London Perceived by V. S. Pritchett 12/22/13
369. East Lynne by Ellen Wood 12/23/13
370. Khufu's Wisdom by Naguib Mahfouz 12/24/13
371. Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz 12/27/13
372. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 12/29/13
373. Clérambault by Romain Rolland 12/29/13
374. Charles De Gaulle by Don Cook 12/31/13
375. Farewell to Matyora by Valentin Rasputin 12/31/13

The best of the year for me was either 'The Radetzky March' or 'Oblomov' but I'll repost the complete rundown from my Tumblr.

2013 HIGHLIGHTS:

Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Oblomov by Ivan Gontcharov
Vis and Rāmin by Fakhruddin As’ad Gurgani
Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski
The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
The Radetzky March and The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth
Voss by Patrick White
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić • Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold • The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood • Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski • The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton • A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas • The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings • Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin • The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert • My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin • Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass • Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin • Lanark by Alasdair Gray • King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild • A Treatise Of Human Nature by David Hume • The Lesson of the Master by Henry James • Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow • Ballad of Forgotten Years by Abish Kekilbayev • The Economic Consequences of the Peaceby John Maynard Keynes • Travels in West Africa by Mary Henrietta Kingsley • Garden, Ashes by Danilo Kiš • Suicide by Édouard Levé • I, Mary MacLane by Mary Maclane • Man’s Hope by Andre Malraux • Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson • Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford • London Perceived by V.S. Pritchett • Excellent Women by Barbara Pym • V. by Thomas Pynchon • The Black Count by Tom Reiss • Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Miller Richardson • Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal • Tenth of December by George Saunders • Vera by Stacy Schiff • The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I by Arthur Schopenhauer • The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob • Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot by Soyen Shaku • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson • Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope • Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett • A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft • Au Bonheur des Dames by Émile Zola