Two thousand thirteen marked a year a big change for me: a new job, a new city and a new house. But through all the transitions, I still found time to read in full 15 books, eight non-fiction and seven fiction, and four issues of Granta, a quarterly magazine of new writing.
Here’s the list:
“An Object of Beauty” by Steve Martin.
“Composing a Life” by Mary Catherine Bateson.
“Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis” by Mark Binelli.
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Moshin Hamid.
“For the Common Good: Redefining Civic Leadership” by David D. Chrislip and Ed O’Malley.
“Daughters of the North” by Sarah Hall.
“Leaving the Atocha Station” by Ben Lerner.
“This is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz.
“The Big Sort: How the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart” by Bill Bishop.
“The Flame Throwers” by Rachel Kushner.
“The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling” by Annette Simmons.
“Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple’s Success” by Ken Segall.
“The Little Way of Ruthie Leming” by Rod Dreher.
“The Circle” by Dave Eggers.
“I Married Adventure: The Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson” by Osa Johnson.
Granta No. 122: Betrayal.
Granta No. 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4.
Granta No. 124: Travel.
Granta No. 125: After the War.