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My Top 15 Books from 2013

Looking for suggestions to start off your reading resolutions? Here are my top 15 choices out of the 59 books I read in 2013 (as always not in any real order). They are all good ways to spend some time.

My Top 15 Books from 2013
  1. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
  2. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
  3. The House of Hades by Rick Riordan
  4. Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis
  5. The Malice of Fortune by Michael Ennis
  6. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
  7. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
  8. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  9. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
  10. A Cookbook Conspiracy by Kate Carlisle
  11. Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  12. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
  13. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
  14. Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron by Michael A. Stackpole
  15. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Mystery, Intrigue, Suspense

15 Great Murder Mysteries (that I’ve read)
  1. Murder on the Orient Express
  2. The Da Vinci Code
  3. The Flanders Panel
  4. Homicide in Hardcover
  5. The Eight
  6. The Daughter of Time
  7. The Big Over Easy
  8. The Dante Club
  9. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  10. The Malice of Fortune
  11. The A.B.C. Murders
  12. The Rossetti Letter
  13. The Egyptologist
  14. The Club Dumas
  15. The Sherlockian

Side question: Why do you think so many mystery title start with “The”?