2013 Reads

January

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

February

The Exile and The Kingdom by Albert Camus

Journey into the Past by Stefan Zweig

Fourteen Love Stories edited by Jose Dalisay Jr. and Angelo R. Lacuesta

Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

March

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Tales of Belkin by Alexander Pushkin

The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides

April

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents The Art of The Short Story edited by The Paris Review

Ghostwritten by David Mitchell

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

Elmer by Gerry Alanguilan

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

Last Night by James Salter

There is a Balm in Gilead: Our Memories of Hope by Goodreads – The Filipino Group

Shortcuts by Raymond Carver

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

May

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I Was Mortal by Javier Marias

World War Z by Max Brooks

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

June

Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

July

Self Help by Lorrie Moore

Pastoralia by George Saunders

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers

August

Manila Noir edited by Jessica Hagedorn

Dogeaters by Jesssica Hagedorn

Monstress by Lysley Tenorio

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

September

Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser

May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov

The Day of The Owl by Leonardo Sciscia

Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov

The Porcupine by Julian Barnes

The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov

October

Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

New Sudden Fiction: Short-short Stories from America and Beyond edited by Robert Shapard

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

November

When The Women Come Out to Dance by Elmore Leonard

Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

City of Glass: The Graphic Novel by Paul Auster and David Mazzucchelli

Stoner by John Edward Williams

White Noise by Don DeLillo

December

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emporium by Adam Johnson

Stonecutter by John J. Muth

Who Do You Think You Are by Alice Munro

Timbuktu by Paul Auster

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides