Round Up 2013

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It's almost impossible to write this round up of the year as a) I burnt my Goodreads account and although I have an excel file of the database, it's almost impossible for me to extract from it details of books read last year and b) there was something of a gap between burning the GR account and starting this lj. So it's really difficult to say what I read in 2013.

Anyway, from the lj:

Completed (in alphabetical order by title)

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Max Morgan-Witts and Gordon Thomas;
Before the Frost by Henning Mankell;
Connoisseur's Science Fiction, edited by Tom Boardman (re-read);
The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby;
Cyteen by CJ Cherryh;
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver;
The Day It Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury;
Despatches from the Frontier of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu;
Dogs by Nancy Kress;
The Dreaming Sex, edited by Mike Ashley;
The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein;
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite;
The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories, edited by Virginia Kidd;
Free Fall by William Golding;
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot;
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.;
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakuer;
Knifer by Ronnie Thompson;
The Land of Green Ginger by Winifred Holtby;
Last Man Down by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto;
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin;
Look Back In Hunger by Jo Brand;
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks;
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF #25, edited by Gardner Dozois;
The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, edited by Mike Ashley;
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman;
The Outward Urge by John Wyndham;
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey;
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury;
South Riding by Winifred Holtby;
the strange voyage of Donald Crowhurst by Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall;
To the Pole by Caroline Hamilton;
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson;
The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos;
We Who Are About To.... by Joanna Russ (re-read).

Crasht and burnt (alphabetically by title)

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantell;
Blackmoor by Edward Hogan;
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell;
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones (not so much a 'crasht and burnt' as a 'someone took their book back', tho);
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn;
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey;
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Persevering with at intervals (alphabetically by title)

Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin;
The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, edited by anon.

So that's at least thirty-five books read last year. Could be worse. If only I could read them slightly faster than I acquire them....

ETA: Monissaw has kindly forced the excel file to give up some information and there's at least two books in it as 'to-read' that I know I did read last year:

The Writer's Guide to Psychology: How to Write Accurately About Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior by Carolyn Kaufman
and
The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin.