My Year in Books 2013

Pending an end of year reading frenzy, here is the list of books I read in 2013 in reverse chronological order:

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (currently reading)
• Travels: Collected Writings, 1950-1993 by Paul Bowles (currently reading)
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• The Burgess Boys: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (currently reading)
• The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin
• The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
• The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
• Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
• Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
• In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński
• The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
• To Asmara by Thomas Keneally
• Motoring with Mohammad: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea by Eric Hansen
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Moshin Hamid
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• Salvation Army by Abdellah Saleh
• A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard by Paul Bowles
• My Place by Morgan Sally
• Gai-Jin by James Clavell

By far my favorite books from the list were: Verhese’s Cutting for Stone, Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son, and Adichie’s Americanah.