books i read in 2013.

this post is a day late.  i like to post it on the last day of the year but britney spears took everything out of me, so inwas too lazy to do it yesterday.

so sadly only read 70 books, 7 less than last year.  and even sadder is last year i read two tolstoy's books and this year alot of children's and ya classics so i am disappointed with my book count for 2013.  boo to me for regressing but next year will read 80!!!  

so here is what i learned in 2013:

-jhumpa lahiri is an amazing short story writer and i am glad mindy kaling posted the intrepeter of maladies on her instagram which inspired me to pick it up.

-celebrities give good book recommendations on instagram.

-i regret not reading great expectations in high school though i have to admit that i was prolly too young to enjoy it as i did.

-it's never too late to read children/ya classics that you missed as a kid.  i read the phantom tollbooth for the first time thanks to my friend juliana and regret that  it took me so long to pick up.  bridge to terabithia was another book that wowed me!

-zelda fitzgerald was the source of the magic behind f. scott fitzgerald's classics.  he literally took the words out of her mouth or journal and into his characters.

-j.k. rowling should have just stopped writing with the harry potter series.

-don't judge a book by a title, middlesex as a title never interested me when i saw it at used book sales, but thanks to flavorpill picked it up and it was absolutely amazing!!!!

-john steinbeck is not an okie those his characters are.  and he writes beautifully.

-james franco does not deserve finding for his books.

-don't knock graphic novels until you have read one.

-it's hard to choose what books everyone should have read by the time they are thirty.

books of 2013

1.  "this is how you lose her" junot diaz

2.  "midnight's children" salman rushdie 

3.  "i just want my pants back" david j. rosen

4. "the secret history" donna tartt

5.  "the visible man" chuck klosterman

6.  "truth in advertising" john kenney

7.  "fairy tales from the brothers grimm" philip pullman*

8.  "the casual vacancy" j.k. rowling

9.  "where'd you go, bernadette" maria semple*

10.  "the love song of johnny valentine" teddy wayne

11.  "flimsy little miracles" ron currie jr.

12.  "1984" george orwell

13. "ender's game" orson scott card

14.  "lolita" vladmir nabokov

15. "maus" art spiegelman*

16. "ghost world" daniel clowes

17. "middlesex" jeffrey eugenides*

18. "the great gatsby" f. scott fitzgerald

19. "beloved"- toni morrison

20.  "life after life" kate atkinson

21.  "z:  a novel of zelda fitzgerald" therese anne fowler

22. "macbeth" william shakespeare

23. "much ado about nothing" william shakespeare

24.  "the catcher in the rye" j.d. salinger**

25.  "catcher, caught" sarah collins honenberger 

26. "glover's mistake" nick laird

27. "are you there god? it's me, margaret" judy blume**

28. "zelda" nancy milford*

29.  "the last tycoon" f. scott fitzgerald

30.  "beautiful fools" r. clifton spargo

31.  "call me zelda" erika robust

32.  "superzelda:  the graphic life of zelda fitzgerald."  tiziana lo porto and danielle marotta.

33.  "office girl" joe meno*

34.  "peter pan" j.m. barrie

35.  "palo alto" james franco

36.  "the impossible lives of greta wells" andrew sean greer

37. "the descendants" kaui hart hemmings

38.  "literacy and longing l.a." jennifer kaufman and karen mack

39. "map of tulsa" benjamin lytal

40.  "the hundred dresses" eleanor estes

41.  "the phantom tollbooth" norton jester*

42.  "interpreter of maladies" jhumpa lahiri*

43.  "i wear the black hat" cluck klosterman

44.  "gone girl" gillian flynn

45.  "fantastic mr. fox" roald dahl

46.  "persepolis" marjane satrapi*

47.  "the bluest eye" toni morrison

48.  "bridge to terabithia" katherine paterson*

49.  "the giver" lois lowry

50.  "of mice and men" john steinbeck**

51.  "grapes of wrath" john steinbeck*

52.  "the love affairs of nathaniel p." adelle waldman

53.  "the namesake" jhumpa lahiri

54.  "unaccustomed earth" jhumpa lahiri

55. "the lowland" jhumpa lahiri 

56.  "love, dishonor, marry, for, cherish, perish" david rakoff

57.  "harriet the spy" louise fitzgerald 

58.  "kiki's memoirs"  alice prin

59.  "kiki de monteparnasse" catel and nora mahony

60.  "the book thief" markus zusak

61.  "anne frank:  diary of a young girl."

62. "night" elie wiesel*

63.  "adé:  a love story" rebecca walker

64.  "matilda" roald dahl**

65.  "the secret garden" frances hodgson burnett

66.  "great expectations" charles dickens*

67.  "milkweed" jerry spinelli

68. "tales of a fourth grade nothing" judy blume

69.  "superfudge" judy blume**

70.  "the immortal life of henrietta lacks" rebecca skloot

*my favorite this year

**my favorite reread/i will love forever