Roger McNamee

2013 has been a fun year in novels. Here is my reading list, in order of preference.

Top 10 Books I read in 2013:

The Circle by Dave Eggers -- WOW!!! Must read!

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Year Zero by Rob Reid

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (MAN-Boooker winner) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaassen

Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan Night Film by Marisha Pessl

I strongly recommend all of the above. The Circle and The Goldfinch are brilliant ... and likely to stay with

me for a long time. Year Zero and Bad Monkey are light fun. Life After Life, Harold Fry, Mr. Penumbra,

The Luminaries and Night Flim all have unusual premises or constructs.

The books that follow were all entertaining, but didn't move me the way the Top 10 did.

Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Skios by Michael Frayn

Little Century by Anna Keesey Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler What In God's Name by Simon Rich

2 Novels I could not finish: Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon (great writing, blah characters)

Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon (really disappointing)

Non-Fiction 1. Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven Davis

2. West With the Night by Beryl Markham.

3. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg 4. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson