So many best-of lists, many carefully aggregated on an ongoing basis for our consensus “Best of the Best” collection, but there is always room for one more. My reading year of 2013 gravitated mostly to my usual categories – literary fiction, crime fiction, memoir, and a smattering of biography – with a strong dose of mid-century suspense novels by women (I had good reason). So keep that in mind while examining my list of favorite books published this year: Consensus lists being what they are, several titles on the “Best of the Best” have my enthusiastic endorsement as well. The […]
