According to my LibraryThing, I read 80 books in 2013. I would love to mention all of them, but here are the top 8 books I loved extra double plus much this year.
The Circle by Dave Eggers. Please like retweet in the comments tagged you in a online just now. |
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Stoner by John Williams. The unobserved greatness of quiet beings. |
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Night Film by Marissha Pessl. Could not put it down. Best summer ever, biking, exploring, filming abandoned ruins througout Berlin during daytime, reading Nightfilm at night. Nightmares for weeks. Lovely lovely. |
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Adverbs by Daniel Handler. Subtly touching in it's stream of conscious cleverness. |
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Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff. When everything happens now. Don't blink, we're gone. The theoretical companion to The Circle (Eggers, above). Both of these books, together with Big Data (Cukier, Mayer-Schonberger) and Alone Together (Turkle) are fundamental to my current fascinations and integral to upcoming work in 2014 and 2015. |
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How Music Works by David Byrne Great observations. I pay attention to Mr Byrne. |
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Dette Burde Skrives I Nutid by Helle Helle Simple, clear Nordic complexity. I can't find a link to this in English version, and maybe that wouldn't work. The language is so utterly deliciously Scandinavian it has to be read like that. |
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Mr Penumbras 24 Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan. The Goonies for grown up geeks. |
Honorable mentions must be mentioned! The Ace Of Skulls by Chris Wooding, Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky, The Ocean At The End Of The Line by Neil Gaiman, Revenge by Yoko Ogawa.
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