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Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2013, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Corner Of White by Jaclyn Moriarty appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Duke Never Yields by Juliana Gray appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, for history lovers, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Natural History Of Dragons: A Memoir By Lady Trent by Marie Brennan appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, for history lovers, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Reader's Book Of Days: True Tales From The Lives And Works Of Writers For Every Day Of The Year by Tom Nissley appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, for history lovers, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Aces Wild by Erica S. Perl appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Advice To Little Girls by Mark Twain, Vladimir Radunsky appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
After the Music Stopped by Alan S. Blinder was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2013 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All That Is: A Novel by James Salter appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2013 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Americanah: A Novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Amy Falls Down: A Novel by Jincy Willett appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Breq is the sole surviving human body of a troop carrier whose artificial intelligence once occupied a ship and thousands of ancillary soldiers. Her search for revenge exposes a civil conflict within the ruler of the vast Radch empire.
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Animal Opposites by Petr Horacek appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Appetite by Aaron Smith appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, the dark side, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
At Last: A Novel by Edward St. Aubyn appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, the dark side, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
At Night We Walk In Circles: A Novel by Daniel Alarcón appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Matthew Myers appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Battling Boy by Paul Pope appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, it’s all geek to me, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Belmont: Poems by Stephen Burt appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black Aperture: Poems by Matt Rassmussen appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, the dark side, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bobcat And Other Stories by Rebecca Lee appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, the dark side, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, tales from around the world, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Book Of Ages: The Life And Opinions Of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bough Down by Karen Green appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, the dark side, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, tales from around the world, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Breakfast With Lucian: The Astounding Life And Outrageous Times Of Britain's Great Modern Painter by Geordie Greig appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, let’s talk about sex, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Captain Marvel Vol. 1: In Pursuit Of Flight by Kelly Sue Deconnick, Dexter Soy, Emma Rios appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, it’s all geek to me, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cat Sense: How The New Feline Science Can Make You A Better Friend To Your Pet by John Bradshaw appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid by Nikki Giovanni appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cinnamon And Gunpowder: A Novel by Eli Brown appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, cookbooks & food, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Claire DeWitt And The Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Claire Of The Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Count The Monkeys by Mac Barnett, Kevin Cornell appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II by Ben H. Winters appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, family matters, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, the dark side, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Crazy Thing Called Love by Molly O'Keefe appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, let’s talk about sex, no biz like show biz, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Days of Fire by Peter Baker was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2013 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
An account of Thurgood Marshall's defense of four Black men falsely accused in Jim Crow Florida.
Diary Of Edward The Hamster 1990-1990 by Miriam Elia And Ezra Elia appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, rather short, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Do You Believe In Magic? The Sense And Nonsense Of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, science!, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dogtripping: 25 Rescues, 11 Volunteers, And 3 RVs On Our Canine Cross-Country Adventure by David Rosenfelt appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
