What I've Read in 2013


  1. The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell (495 pages) 2nd January ★★★
  2. Sisters Red - Jackson Pearce (346 pages) 2nd January ★★★★
  3. A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin (776 pages) 3rd January ★★★
  4. The Making of Us - Lisa Jewell (483 pages) 3rd January ★★
  5. Heart's Blood - Juliet Marillier (485 pages) 4th January ★★★★
  6. Oscar's Books - Thomas Wright (316 pages) 4th January ★★★
  7. Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder (409 pages) 14th January ★★★★★
  8. 1066 and all that - Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman (116 pages) 31st January ★★★★
  9. Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente (367 pages) 31st January ★★★★
  10. Dark Eden - Chris Beckett (404 pages) 16th February ★★★★
  11. Green Rider - Kristen Britain (562 pages) 22nd February ★★★
  12. The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold (490 pages) 25th February ★★★★
  13. Ukridge - P G Wodehouse (270 pages) 1st March ★★★
  14. Fire - Kristin Cashore (384 pages) 4th March ★★★★★
  15. Beauty and the Werewolf - Mercedes Lackey (408 pages) 5th March ★★★★
  16. Silent in the Grave - Deanna Raybourn (511 pages) 9th March ★★★
  17. The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan (469 pages) 10th March ★★★★
  18. The Awakened Mage - Karen Miller (678 pages) 11th March ★★★★
  19. Hadrian's Empire - Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell (293 pages) 12th March ★★★
  20. Fairies and Fairy Tales - Diane Purkiss (352 pages) 12th March ★★★★★
  21. Madeleine is Sleeping - Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum (259 pages) 12th March ★★★
  22. Uglier than a Monkey's Armpit - Dr Robert Vanderplank (128 pages) 12th March ★★★
  23. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (478 pages) 13th March ★★★★
  24. Of Bees and Mist - Erick Setiawan (501 pages) 13th March ★★★★★
  25. The Moving Toyshop - Edmund Crispin (205 pages) 13th March ★★★★
  26. A Dance With Dragons: Dreams and Dust - G. R. R. Martin (624 pages) 25th March ★★★★
  27. A Voice for Princess - John Morressy (213 pages) 25th March ★★★★
  28. Magician - Raymond E. Feist (831 pages) 26th March ★★
  29. Holy Fools - Joanne Harris (384 pages) 26th March ★★★
  30. Madresfield: The Real Brideshead - Jane Mulvagh (429 pages) 27th March ★★★
  31. Starcrossed - Josephine Angelini (514 pages) 28th March ★★★★
  32. Grimm Tales - Philip Pullman (406 pages) 28th March ★★★★
  33. Ganymede - Cherie Priest (349 pages) 4th April ★★★
  34. A Song for Arbonne - Guy Gavriel Kay (608 pages) 11th April ★★★★★
  35. The Light Princess - George MacDonald (305 pages) 12th April ★★★★
  36. Elantris - Brandon Sanderson (622 pages) 14th April ★★★★★
  37. A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin (493 pages) 14th May ★★★
  38. The Death of King Arthur - Simon Armitage (163 pages) 19th May ★★★★
  39. Bitterblue - Kristin Cashore (563 pages) 21st May ★★★★★
  40. Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton (310 pages) 26th May ★★★★
  41. Short Stories - Saki (250 pages) 3rd June ★★★★
  42. Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen (421 pages) 3rd June ★★★
  43. The Desert Spear - Peter V. Brett (782 pages) 10th June ★★★
  44. ElfQuest Volume 1 - Wendy and Richard Pini (165 pages) 16th June ★★★★
  45. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss (994 pages) 21st June ★★★★★
  46. Biting the Sun - Tanith Lee (374 pages) 24th June ★★★★
  47. Rubicon - Tom Holland (411 pages) 24th June ★★★★
  48. Odalisque - Fiona McIntosh (474 pages) 25th June ★★
  49. The Quest for King Arthur - David Day (176 pages) 25th June ★★★
  50. Man and the Sun - Jacquetta Hawkes (265 pages) 26th June ★★★
  51. ElfQuest Volume 2 - Wendy and Richard Pini (175 pages) 27th June ★★★★
  52. Unnatural History - Jonathan Green (210 pages) 1st July ★★
  53. By Light Alone - Adam Roberts (407 pages) 1st July ★★★
  54. Carnevale - M. R. Lovric (634 pages) 4th July ★★★
  55. The Mirror of Helen - Nicholas Purtill (192 pages) 5th July ★★★
  56. The Briar King - Greg Keyes (552 pages) 9th July ★★★
  57. The Buddhas of Bamiyan - Llewelyn Morgan (218 pages) 9th July ★★★
  58. Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky (612 pages) 10th July ★★★
  59. The Outlaw of the Shell - John Finnemore (274 pages) 10th July ★★★★
  60. The Search for the Red Dragon - James A. Owen (371 pages) 14th July ★★★★
  61. White as Snow - Tanith Lee (319 pages) 15th July ★★★
  62. The Evil Seed - Joanne Harris (443 pages) 15th July ★★★
  63. The Owlet of Owlstone Edge - Francis Paget (235 pages) 19th July ★★
  64. The Ordinary Princess - M. M. Kaye (123 pages) 21st July ★★★★
  65. Gossip from the Forest - Sara Maitland (354 pages) 22nd July ★★★★★
  66. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières (435 pages) 24th July ★★★★
  67. The Memoirs of Casanova vol 1 - Giacomo Casanova (478 pages) 25th July ★★★★
  68. Peony in Love - Lisa See (399 pages) 30th July ★★★★
  69. The Magician King - Lev Grossman (560 pages) 31st July ★★★★
  70. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Sarra Manning (555 pages) 1st August  ★★★★
  71. Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos (448 pages) 2nd August ★★★
  72. Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany (192 pages) 2nd August ★★★
  73. Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro (221 pages) 3rd August ★★★
  74. Diving Belles - Lucy Wood (240 pages) 3rd August ★★★★
  75. The Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny (772 pages) 4th August ★★★
  76. The Understudy - David Nicholls (416 pages) 5th August ★★
  77. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson (160 pages) 5th August ★★★
  78. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (354 pages) 7th August ★★★
  79. The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson (1005 pages) 8th August ★★★★★
  80. Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer (311 pages) 12th August ★★★★
  81. Grandes Horizontales - Virginia Rounding (316 pages) 13th August ★★★
  82. Homeric Hymns - Andrew Lang (255 pages) 13th August ★★★★
  83. ElfQuest Volume Three - Wendy and Richard Pini (160 pages) 14th August ★★★★
  84. Kushiel's Dart - Jacqueline Carey (923 pages) 24th August ★★★★★
  85. The Man Who Rained - Ali Shaw (258 pages) 2nd September ★★★★★
  86. AD 500 - Simon Young (249 pages) 2nd September ★★★
  87. Silverwing - Kenneth Oppel (272 pages) 2nd September ★★★
  88. Sunwing - Kenneth Oppel (279 pages) 3rd September ★★★
  89. Blackout - Connie Willis (610 pages) 3rd September ★★★★
  90. The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker (145 pages) 4th September ★★★ 
  91. Redwall - Brian Jacques (416 pages) 5th September ★★★★★
  92. ElfQuest Volume 4 - Wendy and Richard Pini (170 pages) 6th September ★★★
  93. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - GW Dahlquist (753 pages) 7th September ★★
  94. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own Making - Catherynne M. Valente (328 pages) 10th September ★★★★
38,220 pages total.

151 unread books on my shelves.