My Books of 2013

Every year on Goodreads, which is a website that I am a huge fan of, you can set a goal for how many books you want to read. I love doing this because I want to be reading as much as I can every year, and it's really fun to keep track and see how many I've read compared to previous years.

For 2013, I made the goal of reading 40 books. All told, I ended up 44, which I think is pretty impressive. It is true that some of them were novellas, meaning they were short and I read them in one sitting, but there are plenty of others with enough bulk to make up for the lightweights. I also included the ones I invested a good amount of time in without finishing.

Anyway, here is the full list of the books I read in 2013. The "Book List" tab will now restart for 2014. I'm excited about the books I might discover this year.

1. The Guardian by Gerald Lund (Unfortunately, I couldn't bring myself to finish this. It was a really weird book. And Gerald Lund is too old to be writing from a 16-year-old girl's perspective. He just couldn't pull it off.)
2. Flesh & Bone (Benny Imura #3) by Jonathan Maberry (This was intense. I read nearly 400 pages in one night.)
3. The Amulet of Samarkand (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1) by Jonathan Stroud
4. Isolation by Dan Wells
5. Between Husband & Wife by Stephen E. Lamb
6. The Golem's Eye (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #2) by Jonathan Stroud
7. Ptolemy's Gate (The Bartimaeus Trilogy #3) by Jonathan Stroud
8. Zorro by Isabel Allende
9. Change the Culture, Change the Game by Roger Connors and Tom Smith (I had to read this for work, and it's terrible and pointless.)
10. Fragments (Partials Sequence #2) by Dan Wells
11. A Night of Blacker Darkness by Dan Wells
12. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
13. Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth
14. Free Four (Divergent #1.1) by Veronica Roth
15. Insurgent (Divergent #2) by Veronica Roth
16. Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
17. The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain #1) by Lloyd Alexander
18. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling
19. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2) by J.K. Rowling
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3) by J.K. Rowling
21. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) by J.K. Rowling
22. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5) by J.K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6) by J.K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7) by J.K. Rowling
25. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
26. The Rithmatist (Rithmatist #1) by Brandon Sanderson
27. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
29. The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
30. Matched (Matched #1) by Ally Condie
31. Crossed (Matched #2) by Ally Condie
32. Reached (Matched #3) by Ally Condie
33. The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Fire and Thorns #1) by Rae Carson
34. The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns #2) by Rae Carson
35. Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu
36. Night by Elie Wiesel
37. Variant (Variant #1) by Robison Wells
38. Feedback (Variant #2) by Robison Wells
39. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
40. Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu
41. Fire & Ash (Benny Imura #4) by Jonathan Maberry
42. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
43. The Bitter Kingdom (Fire and Thorns #3) by Rae Carson
44. The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater
45. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher