{books read | 2013}

Ems from In Which Ems Reviews Books gave me the inspiration for this page (she has all kinds of awesome ideas--go check her reviews out!). I think having a grand reading list easily accessible is a great idea so as to give readers a more accurate idea as to my taste in books.

My Goodreads Reading Challenge goal is currently 50 books. I'm really hoping to surpass that number but with this year being all crazy and, well, kinda weird, I'm keeping my goal attainable.

1. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
3. Ghost Knight by Cornelia Funke
4. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
5. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
6. The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
7. Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
8. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
9. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
10. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
11. The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup
12. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) by Agatha Christie
13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
14. Emma by Jane Austen
15. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
17. Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter #10) by Dorothy Sayers
18. The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
19. Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe #1) by Rex Stout
20. The Witches by Roald Dahl
21. The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe #2) by Rex Stout
22. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
23. The Rubber Band ( Nero Wolfe #3) by Rex Stout
24. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
25. The Twits by Roald Dahl
26. George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
27. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
28. Beezus and Ramona (Ramona #1) by Beverly Cleary
29. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
30. Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
31. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
32. The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me by Roald Dahl
33. Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
34. Stuart Little by E.B. White
35. The Red Box (Nero Wolfe #4) by Rex Stout
36. Matilda by Roald Dahl