Best reads - 2013

[DATo]

Not necessarily in this order

The Hunger Games (entire trilogy) -Suzanne Collins
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
The House At Riverton - Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
A Tale For The Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
The Thousand Autums of Jacob deZote - David Mitchell
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

 

[Sneezy]

Off the top o' me head:

Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons - Ian Banks
Bottom Feeder - Taras Grescoe
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacteriagallipoli (or something)
Ender's Game - Orson Card
Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
The Great Gatsby - Scotty FitzG

With the exception of the last one which was a retread to prepare for the movie (must be ready to point and laugh at the inadequacies of film with regard to portraying a complex story), all of them are a direct result of interaction with the fine scholars hereabouts.

I sincerely thank you all.

 

[Sparhawk]

The only books that I have read the year that I would say were brilliant and I would read again are...

Riyria Revelations - Michael J Sullivan

The Starbuck series - Bernard Cornwell

And

The Corean Chronicles - L. E Modesitt