Books Read in 2013

90) Tenth of December - George Saunders (fiction, short stories)

89) Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (fiction)

88) The Colour of Milk - Nell Leyshon (fiction)

87) Her Birth - Rebecca Goss (poetry)

86) How Many Camels is too Many? - Colette Sensier (poetry)

85) Electric Shadow - Heidi Williamson (poetry, re-read)

84) A Dangerous Age - Ellen Gilchrist (fiction)

83) The Round House- Louise Erdrich (fiction)

82) Song Hunter - Sally Prue (fiction)

81) 7 Poets, UEA Creative Writing Anthology 2013 (poetry)

80) Finding Caruso - Kim Barnes (fiction)

79) Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner (fiction)

78) Twelve Slanted Poems for Christmas - edited by Helen Ivory and Kate Birch (poetry)

77) The Stone Thrower - Adam Marek (fiction, short stories)

76) This Afternoon and I - Sarah Roby (poetry)

75) The Norfolk Mystery - Ian Sansom (fiction)

74) A Virtual Love - Andrew Blackman (fiction)

73) Standing in Another Man's Grave - Ian Rankin (fiction)

72) Mateship With Birds - Carrie Tiffany (fiction)

71) Running the Rift - Naomi Benaron (fiction)

70) What I saw - Laura Scott (poetry)

69) Familiar - J. Robert Lennon (fiction)

68) The Mind's Eye - Hakan Nesser (fiction)

67) Burning Man - Alan Russell (fiction)

66) Borkmann's Point - Hakan Nesser (fiction)

65) All the Birds Singing - Evie Wyld (fiction)

64) The Havocs - Jacob Polley (poetry)

63) Daybreak - Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson (fiction)

62) Why be Happy When You Could be Normal - Jeanette Winterson (non fiction)

61) Godforsaken Idaho - Shawn Vestal (fiction, short stories)

60) Apple Tree Yard - Louise Doughty (fiction)

59) The Detective's Daughter - Lesley Thomson (fiction)

58) Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos (fiction)

57) Homesick for the Earth, Poems by Jules Spervielle with versions by Moniza Alvi (poetry, re-read)

56) Kei Miller -A Light Song of Light (poetry, re-read)

55) Black Vodka - Deborah Levy (fiction, short stories)

54) A Map of Nowhere - Martin Bannister ( fiction)

53) Reservation Road - John Burnham Schwartz (fiction)

52) The Crumb Road - Maitreyabandhu ( poetry)

52) High Performance - Luke Wright (poetry)

51) The Son of a Shoemaker - Linda Black ( poetry)

50) One Step too Far - Tina Seskis (fiction)

49) The Dinner - Herman Koch (fiction)

48) The Falling Sky - Pippa Goldschmidt (fiction)

47) The Most Beautiful Thing - Satya Robyn (fiction)

46) Rites - Sophie Coulombeau (fiction)

45) Property Of - Alice Hoffman (fiction)

44) The Wildflowers of Baltimore - Rob Roensch (fiction, short stories)

43) Absolution - Patrick Flannery (fiction)

42) Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson (poetry)

41) Broadcasting - Andrea Holland (poetry)

40) Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

39) Flash and Bones - Kathy Reichs (fiction)

38) Waiting for Bluebeard - Helen Ivory (poetry)

37) The Blue Bedspread - Raj Kamal Jha (fiction)

36) Raptors - Toon Tellegen (poetry)

36) Hills of Doors - Robin Robertson (poetry)

35) Faber new Poets 1 - Katherine Benson (poetry)

34) The Doll Princess - Tom Benn (fiction)

33) This is How to Lose Her - Junot Diaz (fiction)

32) Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo (non fiction)

31) Furious Resonance - Terry Jones (poetry)

30) Speaking Without Tongues - Jane Monson (poetry)

29) Bevel - William Letford (poetry)

28) The Other Side of the Bridge - Geraldine Green (poetry)

27) The Overhaul - Kathleen Jamie (poetry)

26) Stalker - Lucy Hamilton (poetry)

25) The Wigbox; New and Selected Poems - Dorothy Nimmo (poetry)

24) Once You Break a Knuckle - D.W. Wilson (fiction, short stories)

23) This isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You - Jon Mcgregor (fiction, short stories)

22) Grace - Esther Morgan (poetry, re-read)

21) Contemporary American Poetry - eds A. Poulin Jr & Michael Waters (poetry)

20) The Silence Living in Houses - Esther Morgan (poetry)

19) Chick - Hannah Lowe (poetry)

18) Peacock Luggage - Moniza Alvi and Peter Daniels (poetry)

17) The Hungry Ghost Festival - Jen Campbell (poetry)

16) How the Stone Found its Voice - Moniza Alvi (poetry)

15) Faber New Poets 1 - Fiona Benson (poetry)

14) Stag's Leap - Sharon Olds (poetry)

13) Place - Jorie Graham (poetry)

12) Infinite Sky - C.J. Flood (fiction)

11) Dear Editor - Amy Newman (poetry)

10) Shelter - Jayne Anne Philips (fiction)

9) Self Portrait in the Dark - Colette Bryce (poetry)

8) The Bridle - Meryl Pugh (poetry)

7) Claiming Breath - Diane Glancy (poetry)

6) Jump Bad - A New Chicago Anthology (poetry and prose)

5) Night Journey - Richard Lambert (poetry)

4) The Man from Beijing - Henning Mankell (fiction)l

3) The Thing About Joe Sullivan - Roy Fisher (poetry)

2) Adventures With My Horse - Penelope Shuttle (poetry)

1) Carrying My Wife - Moniza Alvi (poetry, re-read)