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.
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