Books and Movies of 2013

Here are the books I read and the movies I saw in the theater in 2013. (Previous years: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

My favorite non-fiction reads were Zealot and Benjamin Franklin. My favorite fiction reads were Gaudy Night, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Evel Knievel Days (Gaudy Night was especially fantastic).

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest by Jack Nisbet
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Booth Who? A biography of Booth Gardner by John C. Hughes
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow
The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton
Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian by Heather Ewing
O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Our Lady of the Forest by David Guterson
Life Class by Pat Barker
Dead in the Water by Dana Stabenow
Evel Knievel Days by Pauls Toutonghi
May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
Midnight to the North: The Inuit Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition by Sheila Nickerson
Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
Cecil Andrus: Politics Western Style by Cecil Andrus
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
A Cold-Blooded Business by Dana Stabenow
Land of the Blind by Jess Walter
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Honoring Juanita by Hans Ostrom
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth

IN PROGRESS: Play with Fire by Dana Stabenow and The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

The few movies I saw this year were great!

Zero Dark Thirty
Life of Brian
Rear Window
Francis Ha
Much Ado About Nothing
The Way, Way Back
20 Feet from Stardom