2013 Book of the Year Awards

While the Pleasant Hill Book Club has yet to vote on its book of the year, other sites have started releasing their lists.

Check out NPR's Best Books of 2013, which includes one of our book club books from this year: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Goodreads 2013 Choice Awards also includes a book club pick from this year, Inferno by Dan Brown.

And the New York Times' Best 10 Books of 2013

Many books from these lists are on my ever-growing to-read list including:

• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman

What are some of your favorites for 2013? What about must-reads for 2014?

~WMc

July Book of the Month: Inferno by Dan Brown

 

Via goodreads.com:
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.

Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.