Library Journal has selected their top 10 books of 2013. (Four of those ten titles were first previewed early in the year prior to publication in our newly-added spring/summer “Winter Institute” edition of our free Publishers Lunch Buzz Books ebook samplers. We’re putting together the new version of that WI-timed sampler right now for release next January–and you can still download and share the big fall/winter edition, which included an additional title on the LJ list.)
Claire of the Sea Light, Edwidge Danticat
The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan
NOS4A2, Joe Hill
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis
Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink
The Searchers, Glenn Frankel
How To Create the Perfect Wife, Wendy Moore
Cooked, Michael Pollan
In the UK, the Guardian named the shortlist for their First Book award:
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
Sex and the Citadel, Shereen El Feki
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Kiss Me First, Lottie Moggach
The Spinning Heart, Donal Ryan
And O Magazine editors named their Top 10 Favorite Reads of 2013:
The Isle of Youth, by Laura Van Den Berg
Country Girl, by Edna O’Brien
The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
The Cuckoo’s Calling, by J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith
Dog Songs, by Mary Oliver
The Woman Who Lost her Soul, by Bob Shacochis