Book Club Mom was born in 2013. Understanding blogging takes a while and learning how to write proper book reviews takes even longer. So this was the year of figuring it out. But I read a lot in 2013. Classics, new books, Young Adult and several random books. And some terrific 5-star reads, including Gone With the Wind, The Giver ,To Kill a Mockingbird and Life After Life.
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 5 stars
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – 4 stars
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – 4 stars
We Hear the Dead by Dianne K. Salerni – 4 stars
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – 4 stars
Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy by Mimi Alford – 3 stars
Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow – 3 stars
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan – 3 stars
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls – 3 stars
Defending Jacob by William Landay – 3 stars
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway – 4 stars
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates – 4 stars
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown – 4 stars
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen – 3 stars
Son by Lois Lowry – 4 stars
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – 4 stars
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein – 4 stars
Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica – 4 stars
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – 4 stars
The Giver by Lois Lowry – 5 stars
Old School by Tobias Wolff – 3 stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – 4 stars
My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse – 4 stars
The Silver Crown by Robert C. O’Brien – 5 stars
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – 2 stars
The Ha Ha by Dave King – 4 stars
Open House by Elizabeth Berg – 1 star
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani – 3 stars
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson – 3 stars
The Cay by Theodore Taylor – 4 stars
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee – 3 stars
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – 4 stars
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky – 4 stars
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones – 3 stars
Four Perfect Pebbles – A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan – 4 stars
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – 4 stars
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson – 4 stars
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson – 4 stars
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – 4 stars
Wonder by R. J. Palacio – 3.5 stars
Straight Man by Richard Russo – 3 stars
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman – 4 stars
QB1 by Mike Lupica – 4 stars
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline – 3 stars
The Amateur by Edward Klein – 3 stars
The Drake Equation by Heather Walsh – 3 stars
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick – 4 stars
Dented Cans by Heather Walsh – 3 stars
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – 5 stars
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – 5 stars
Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. – 4 stars
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