These are my best reads of 2013: (about 175 books)
Fiction
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Door by Madga Szabo
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Warlock by Oakley Hall
? The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (if I finish in time)?
My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante (a planned trilogy)
Crime
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Sandrine’s Case by Thomas Cook
Light of the World by James Lee Burke
The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon by Alexander McCall Smith
Nonfiction
What God Hath Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe
The Thirty Year War by C.V. Wedgewood
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Becky's Books - 
Oh dear, I haven’t read any of those, but I am about to read The luminaries. I’m guessing it might be on my list for 2014!
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The Luminaries is a fun read – set in the New Zealand gold rush days.
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Oh yes, thanks Bekah, I know where it is set .. it made a big splash here when it won the Booker. After all, New Zealanders were nearly part of Australia! I’ll start reading it in a week or two.
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Great selection three books I’ve on my tbr pile the door Joesph Anton and behind the beautiful forever I must get to them at some point
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Yes, Those are good. It was a very good year for reading.
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