2013: Year in reading

Every year I like to share what I read. In 2013 I read 60 books, below my recent highs of around 80 per year, but much more than I expected to read with an infant. It turns out that you can easily read (especially on a phone -- it's the perfect size) while breastfeeding and rocking a baby to sleep. :) Here's my Goodreads profile and the final list for 2013, with favorites in bold.

January 2013
A Good American by Alex George
Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman (book group)
Arcadia by Lauren Groff (book group)
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
Lucky Break by Esther Freud

February 2013
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (book group)
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (book group)
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year by Anne Lamott
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

March 2013
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (book group)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce #5) by Alan Bradley (book group)
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

April 2013
Take Me Home by Brian Leung (book group)
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

May 2013
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (book group)

June 2013 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (book group)

July 2013 
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (book group)
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (book group)
The Days are Gods by Liz Stephens
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Why Have Kids? by Jessica Valenti
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Crashed by Timothy Hallinan
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) (book group)

August 2013 
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Girl Walks into a Bar by Rachel Dratch
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Elsewhere by Richard Russo

September 2013
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes (book group)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Solar by Ian McEwan

October 2013 

MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud

November 2013 
NW by Zadie Smith
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Future of Us by Jay Asher
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

December 2013 
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (book group)
Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt