I’ve said before that for six years or so I’ve set a goal with my reading. For many years that goal was 100, and I’d usually exceed it by a dozen or so. In 2012, I decided to up the goal to 150, and in 2013 I’ll be going to 200.
How I Do This
To understand how I read so much, check out these other articles I’ve written:
- How I Read 200 Books a Year
- How Audiobooks are Essential to Reaching my Reading Goals
- How to Read More by Setting Reading Goals
Past Reading Lists
Want to check out my past lists?
Ratings
In 2013 (as in 2012), I will rate some of the books I read. Not every book, but some. Here’s how the ratings go.
Ratings:
* {eh.}
** {useful information, but likely not something the general masses will fawn over.}
*** {good, but with the caveat that I read (and enjoy) weird books}
**** {darn good. worth buying a hard copy of to put on a nice shelf.}
***** {love! top-10 placement! life-changing! gold stars 4eva!}
The 2013 List
Books Read in 2013:
- The One Year Bible NLT from Tyndale (I read this daily in my PRESENT time (via clement). Read my free ebook, The Present Principle, on how I start my days.)
- The Message (Every year, I read through Peterson’s The Message.)
- In Patagonia
- Bella Tuscany
- Cinco Cerditos
- Trajectoria de Boomerang
- My Reading Life
- What the Most Successful People Do On Weekends
- An Italian Education
- Most Talkative
- Muerte en la Vicaria
- Beautiful Ruins
- The Turn of the Screw
- The Stress-Free Life
- Living Still
- Happier than a Billionaire
- The Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (yes, I’m the last person on the planet to read this one)
- Who’s There? (the manuscript for a friend’s new novel)
- More or Less
- Happier at Home
- Steve Jobs
- {health book}
- {health book}
- Tears of the Giraffe
- Morality for Beautiful Girls
- The Galapagos Affair
- Creating Room to Read
- Bindi Girl
- Waiting for Daisy ****
- Fieldwork
- The Circle Maker ***
- The Post Christian Church
- The Power of Habit ***
- A Joyful Pilgrimage
- The Memoir Project ***
- Gone Girl
- My Favorite Wife
- Dirty God
- Follow Me
- Body Surfing
- Drive
- The Voluntourist
- 24/6: A Prescription for a Happier, Healthier Life
- A Day in the Life of a Minimalist
- Love is the Killer App
- The Balance Within
- The Exile Lifestyle
- The Dirt on Clean
- A Death at Pemberley
- Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv and Paris ****
- The Cost of Hope
- Life Without Limits
- My Life in France ****
- Accidental Genius
- {health}
- Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- Give me the World *****
- The Man Who Quit Money
- The Sweet Life in Paris
- The Hidden Link Between Adrenaline and Stress
- Lights Out
- Dearie
- Leading on Empty***
- Write it Down, Make it Happen
- The Joy Diet
- The Primal Connection
- The New Sugar Busters
- Start
- What Successful People Do at Work
- Crashing Through
- The Joy of Burnout
- One Year Lived
- Dark Star Safari***
- Paris: A Love Story
- Lunch in Paris
- Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda***
- Bright Lights, No City
- Travels with Myself and Another
- My Berlin Kitchen
- Awakening
- Almost French
- Finding Rest
- Bread and Wine
- Resurrection Year
- A Journey with Elsa Cloud***
- Married to Bhutan***
- The Big White Canoe
- {health book}
- The Power of Rest
- The Woman Who Wasn’t There
- The Girl Who Fell to Earth
- The Mosquito Coast
- The Woman Code
- Lipstick in Afghanistan
- Running Away to Home
- In the Garden of Beasts
- Rock Bottom Blessings
- The Last Train to Zona Verde***
- Interupted
- Mzungu (a screenplay)
- Bongo Bongo Life in the Belgian Congo
- The Beauty Detox Solution
- Speak Swahili, Dammit
- Radio Shangri-La
- Barefoot Church
- Nine Hills to Nambokaha
- You’re Already Amazing
- {health book}
- {health book}
- Lost and Found
- You’re Made for a God-Sized Dream
- {health book}
- Love with a Chance of Drowning
- Molokai
- The Wired Mom
- Teams on the Edge
- The Right Attitude to Rain***
- Finding Moosewood, Finding God
- Let Go
- The Hunger Games
- Catching Fire
- Mockingjay
- The Sunday Philosphers Club***
- Friends, Lovers, Chocolate ***
- Paradise News
- {health book}
- The Leopard Tree
- 44 Scotland Street
- Getting Stoned with Savages
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- The Case of the Missing Servant
- Daring Greatly
- The Careful Use of Compliments ***
- The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday ***
- The Lost Art of Gratitude ***
- The Highly Sensitive Person
- The Charming Quirks of Others
- The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
- Brand Against the Machine
- 20,000 Days and Counting
- Say Goodbye to Survival Mode
- Dangerous Grains
- {health}
- The Wishing Year
- Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes
- Notes from a Blue Bike
- A Change in Altitude
- A Hologram for the King
- {health}
- The Foremost Good Fortune
- Lean In
- The Weird Sisters
- Primal Body, Primal Mind
- Austenland
- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
- The Blue Castle
- The Happy Wives Club
- Among Flowers
- Killer’s Island
- Packing Light
- {health}
- Hablare Cuando Estare Muerto
- Dreaming in Chinese
- A Place of Reeds
- Sacred Rhythms
- Fascinate
- Paramedic to the Prince
- Crocodile and the Sun
- Too Close to the Sun
- Bootstrapped
- The Bolter
- The Curse of the Pharoahs
- Travels in a Thin Country
- Illuminata
- {health}
- Balance that Works When Life Doesn’t
- A Good Man in Africa
- Chickens in the Road
- The Signature of All Things
- The Dinner
- The Circle
- Lost on Planet China
- The Message
- My Utmost for His Highest
- Mystery on the Great Lakes
- A Little Salty Cuts the Sweet
- How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
- The Saphire Sea
- The End of Your Life Book Club
- How Nancy Drew Saved My Life
- The Rest of God
- {health}
- Fried
- {health}
- To the Moon and Timbuktu
- I Am Malala
- Zen Under Fire
- The Royal Road to Romance
- Stalking the Wild Dik Dik
- {health}
- French Lessons
- The Tree Where Man Was Born
- All Good Things
- Somewhere Inside
- Mastering the Art of French Eating
- However Long the Night
