Year archive
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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Dream Eyes by Jayne Ann Krentz appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Drinking With Men: A Memoir by Rosie Schaap appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, staff picks, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, young adult, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Eleven Days: A Novel by Lea Carpenter appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, the dark side, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Every Grain Of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fear Of Flying: A Novel by Erica Jong appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fever by Mary Beth Keane appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, for history lovers, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Five Star Billionaire: A Novel by Tash Aw appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Flora And The Flamingo by Molly Idle appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, no biz like show biz, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Flora And Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, K.G. Campbell 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.
Fosse by Sam Wasson appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberson, Gennady Spirin appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, tales from around the world, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
From Scratch: Inside The Food Network by Allen Salkin appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, staff picks, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Going Under by Lauren Dane appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Gris Grimly's Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Gris Grimly appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, mysteries & thrillers, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hand-Drying In America: And Other Stories by Ben Katchor appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, rather short, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? by Eve Bunting, Sergio Ruzzier 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.
Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace by Nan Marino appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Hitler's Furies: German Women In The Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for history lovers, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How Big Were Dinosaurs? by Lita Judge appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, for history lovers, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How The Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 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.
How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, tales from around the world, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How We Do It: The Evolution And Future Of Human Reproduction by Robert Martin 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.
Hyperbole And A Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, And Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, the dark side, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
I Want To Show You More by Jamie Quatro appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, let’s talk about sex, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
I'll Be Seeing You by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, fiction, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Formally varied poems revisit the Annunciation while considering faith, womanhood, motherhood, and contemporary life.
Indian Cooking Unfolded: A Master Class In Indian Cooking, With 100 Easy Recipes Using 10 Ingredients Or Less by Raghavan Iyer appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Journey by Aaron Becker appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Julio's Day by Gilbert Hernandez appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, for history lovers, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, for history lovers, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Keepers: Two Home Cooks Share Their Tried-And-True Weeknight Recipes And The Secrets To Happiness In The Kitchen by Kathy Brennan, Caroline Campion appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
League Of Denial: The NFL, Concussions And The Battle For Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around science!, staff picks, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Levels Of Life by Julian Barnes appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, love & romance, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Lexicon: A Novel by Max Barry appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, it’s all geek to me, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, historical fiction, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Little Elvises: A Junior Bender Mystery by Timothy Hallinan appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, funny stuff, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Boston police captain's son Joe Coughlin becomes an outlaw during Prohibition and rises through organized crime from Massachusetts to Florida and Cuba. His ambition brings wealth and influence alongside betrayal, racial violence, and lasting personal loss.
Love Is Power, Or Something Like That: Stories by A. Igoni Barrett appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, tales from around the world, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, love & romance, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, short stories, essays & poetry, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
MaddAddam: A Novel by Margaret Atwood appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, the dark side, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver appears in NPR’s 2013 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, for history lovers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
