I am astonished when I look back at the tremendous amount of books I read last year. I've always been a voracious reader, and I usually have 3 or more books going at once. But I think last year may have been record breaking.
There are a few changes I made which helped me plow through so many titles last year, but that is a post for another day. This list is extensive, so I won't go into detail about why I liked each title. I've tried to group them by similar categories so it's easier to browse. I've also discarded any books which I didn't finish reading all the way through. We read many, many, many children's books this year as well, which I will list in another post.
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost it's Luster by Dana Thomas
Parisian Chic by Ines De La Fressange
How To Look Expensive by Andrea Pomerantz Lustig
How To Dress for Success by Edith Head
Overdressed by Elizabeth Cline
A Return to Modesty by Wendy Shalit
Girls Gone Mild by Wendy Shalit
Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
Scandilicious by Signe Johansen
It Starts With Food by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
French Kids Eat Everything by Karen Le Billon
Bringing Up Bebe by Pamela Druckerman
Scandinavian Stitches by Kajsa Wikman
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Young House Love by Sherry and John Petersik
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading by Jessie Wise
You Learn By Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
A Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L'Engle
Below Stairs by Margaret Powell
The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith
7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
All the Money in the World by Laura Vanderkam
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
Do The Work! by Steven Pressfield
And the only two fiction books I read in 2013 that weren't of the children's variety...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Clearly I favor non-fiction, but I very much loved the two novels I read this past year. Now that I realize just how much I'm leaving fiction out, I'll be making a greater effort to include novels in my reading choices for 2014.
What about you? What were your favorite reads in 2013?
I read 7 just after we were evacuated from South Sudan. And I just loved it :)
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