{"id":121,"date":"2013-12-31T20:09:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2013-12-31T20:09:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T04:09:32","slug":"2013-the-year-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"2013: The Year in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s new year’s eve and it is time for my annual list of the books I read for the year. I read the entire Wheel of Time<\/em> series this year, which was really quite time consuming. I read 46 books overall–not quite the 50+ I was shooting for, but I think it is still respectable, all things considered. Nineteen of the books were non-fiction.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Eye of the World<\/span> by Robert Jordan 1\/20<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Great Hunt<\/span> by Robert Jordan 2\/14<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, 8th<\/sup> Edition<\/span> by Michael Meyers 2\/18<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking<\/span> by Susan Cain 2\/25<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Over the Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane<\/span> by John Amato and David Neiwert 3\/1<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The Dragon Reborn<\/span> by Robert Jordan 3\/7<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The Ordinary Acrobat<\/span> by Duncan Wall 3\/10<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers & Fathers Are Going Broke<\/span> by Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi 3\/19<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains<\/span> by Nicholas Carr 4\/2<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Every Day<\/span> by David Levithan 4\/3<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief<\/span> by Lawrence Wright 4\/9<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/span> by Michelle Alexander 4\/27<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth<\/span> by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou 4\/29<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Adventures of the Artificial Woman: A Novel<\/span> by Thomas Berger 5\/1<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. The Shadow Rising<\/span> by Robert Jordan 6\/10<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Dreams and Shadows: A Novel<\/span> by C. Robert Cargill 6\/16<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution<\/span> by Chris Anderson 6\/28<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. We Need New Names<\/span> by NoViolet Bulawayo 7\/2<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. I Fired God: My Life Inside\u2014and Escape from\u2014the Secret World of the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Cult<\/span> by Jocelyn Zichterman 7\/4<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Will Grayson, Will Grayson<\/span> by John Green and David Levithan 7\/10<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. The Unlikely Disciplie: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University<\/span> by Kevin Roose 7\/24<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond<\/span> edited by John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen 7\/30<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. The Shining Girls<\/span> by Lauren Beukes 8\/11<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Girls of the Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II<\/span> by Denise Kernan 8\/28<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Red Shirts: A Novel with Three Codas<\/span> by John Scalzi 9\/3<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. The Fires of Heaven<\/span> by Robert Jordan 9\/4<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness<\/span> by Jessica Valenti 9\/10<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. Asperger’s on the Job: Must-Have Advice for People with Asperger’s or High Functioning Autism, and their Employers, Educators, and Advocates<\/span> by Rudy Simone 9\/11<\/span><\/li>\n
  29. Lord of Chaos<\/span> by Robert Jordan 9\/17<\/span><\/li>\n
  30. Crown of Swords<\/span> by Robert Jordan 10\/2<\/span><\/li>\n
  31. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe v. Wade<\/span> by Ann Fessler 10\/11<\/span><\/li>\n
  32. The Path of Daggers <\/span>by Robert Jordan 10\/18<\/span><\/li>\n
  33. The Lost Hero<\/span> by Rick Riordan 10\/23<\/span><\/li>\n
  34. The Son of Neptune<\/span> by Rick Riordan 10\/24<\/span><\/li>\n
  35. The Mark of Athena<\/span> by Rick Riordan 10\/25<\/span><\/li>\n
  36. The House of Hades<\/span> by Rick Riordan 10\/29<\/span><\/li>\n
  37. Winter’s Heart<\/span> by Robert Jordan 11\/7<\/span><\/li>\n
  38. Crossroads of Twilight<\/span> by Robert Jordan 11\/24<\/span><\/li>\n
  39. The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift Like a Man, Look Like a Goddess<\/span> by Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsthe, Alwyn Cosgrove 11\/27<\/span><\/li>\n
  40. Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths<\/span> by Nancy Marie Brown 12\/2<\/span><\/li>\n
  41. Just a Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales of the Search for Life, Love, and Fulfillment Beyond the Starship Enterprise<\/span> by Wil Wheaton 12\/4<\/span><\/li>\n
  42. Knife of Dreams<\/span> by Robert Jordan 12\/6<\/span><\/li>\n
  43. Love Minus Eighty<\/span> by Will McIntosh 12\/8<\/span><\/li>\n
  44. The Gathering Storm<\/span> by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 12\/13<\/span><\/li>\n
  45. Towers of Midnight<\/span> by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 12\/22<\/span><\/li>\n
  46. A Memory of Light<\/span> by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 12\/31<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s new year’s eve and it is time for my annual list of the books I read for the year. I read the entire Wheel of Time series this year, which was really quite time consuming. I read 46 books overall–not quite the 50+ I was shooting for, but I think it is still respectable,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[89,87,25,88,13,46],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-89","tag-books-of-the-year","tag-fiction","tag-lists","tag-non-fiction","tag-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ni6N-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmanticore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}