Here’s the post that has become the traditional first of the new year, one which reflects on the year just past. This is the seventh year in a row in which I enumerate and categorize the books I read and the movies I saw, and then attempt some kind of spotlight on select titles.
In 2013, I read 48 books and saw 32 movies. It was a record year for books! In terms of categories, I read twice as much fiction as non-fiction, 33 to 15. Fiction genres ranged from the standard novel to sci-fi/fantasy to mystery/thriller to poetry. The non-fiction books included history, biography/memoir, science/medicine, statistics, and psychology. The movies I watched included drama, comedy, sci-fi, animated, musical, and documentary.
It’s become progressively harder for me to pick a top five or six titles as Best of, so this year I’m again doing something a bit different for both books and movies.
These are the books I thought deserved their glowing reviews:
- 1493
- Cloud Atlas
- Midnight’s Children
- Orlando Furioso
- Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
These are the movies I did not expect to really like but did:
- Arbitrage
- Chocolat
- The Heat
- Lincoln
- The Way
Click here for the complete lists. Happy reading and happy viewing.