A running list I’m keeping for myself.
January:
- The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2013
- Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
- The Big Four by Agatha Christie
- Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
- Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
- Innocent Blood by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Quiet by Susan Cain (audiobook)
February:
- Dangerous Women (anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois)
- Still Writing by Dani Shapiro
- The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials trilogy)
- The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials trilogy)
March:
- Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm by Erin Bryers Murray
- Amazonia by James Rollins
- Sandstorm by James Rollins
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- On Such a Full Sea by Chang Rae Lee
- We Wanted To Be Writers: Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
April:
- Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Europe trip (May, June, July)
- Homesickness: An American History by
- Among the White Moon Faces by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Hunger by Samantha Chang
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
- Parisians by Gordon Robb
- Inheritance by Samantha Chang
- All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost by Samantha Chang
- Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy
- Collected Stories of Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grisson
- Three Singles to Adventure by Gerald Durrell
- The Drunken Forest by Gerald Durrell
- MFA vs NYC
- The Paris Wife by Paula Mclaine
- Not Quite Paradise by Adele Barker (audiobook)
- Writers on Writing
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (re-read)
July (Koh Samui, KL)
- Frida by Hayden Herrera
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
August (Iowa onwards)
- The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones
- The Best Women’s Travel Writing Vol. 9
- The Writing Workshop Notebook by Alan Ziegler
- The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
- How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
- The Writer’s Journal ed. by Sheila Bender
- So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’engle
- Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
- Aristotle’s Poetics
- Oedipus the King
September