Best of What I Read in 2013

Each year I like to select the top 20 percent of the books I read for special attention. Though 2013 is a few months behind, I’d still like to highlight the books I read in that year that are most noteworthy.

1. Second Kings

2. Revelation

3. The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron

4. The Purloined Letter and The Murder on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe

5. Return of the Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

6. My Antonia by Willa Cather

7. The Postman by David Brin

Other annual best-of lists:

Best of What I Read in 2012

Best of What I Read in 2011

Best of What I Read in 2010

Best of What I Read in 2009

Best of What I Read in 2008
Best of What I Read in 2007

Other best-of lists:

Top 15 Books Reviewed So Far