Books Read 2013

January

• My Ántonia by Willa Cather (1918)
• The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy (1995)
• The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery by Keibo Oiwa and David Suzuki (1996)
• The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (1962) [translated from the Japanese]
• The Sacrifice by Adele Wiseman (1956)
• Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison (1930)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
• The Double Hook by Sheila Watson (1959)
• Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (2007)
• Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald(1990)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
• Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais (1959)
• Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (2000)

February

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1818)
• Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott (1866)
• The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (2009)
• The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (1969)
• Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Louisa May Alcott (1863)

March

• Thirty Acres by Ringuet (1940)
• The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (1958)
• La Guerre, Yes Sir! by Roch Carrier (1968)
• Tay John by Howard O'Hagan (1939)

April

• Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (1920) 

July

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

September

• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (1985)
• 1982 by Jian Ghomeshi (2012)
• My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney by Julie Devaney (2012) 
• Cue for Treason: A Tale of Shakespearean England by Geoffrey Trease (1940)
• Fire on the Wind by Geoffrey Trease (1993)
• How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books by Joan Bodger (1965) 
• One Happy Moment by Louise Riley (1951)
• Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (1922)
• Word to Caesar by Geoffrey Trease (1955)
• The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1836)
• The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke (1769)
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat (1956)

October

• The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun (1932)
• Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature by Margaret Atwood (1995)
• The Curse of the Viking Grave by Farley Mowat (1966)
• Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch (2011)
• W;t, a Play by Margaret Edson (1993)
• Highland Christmas by M. C. Beaton (1999)
• Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven (2004) 
• Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (1972) 
• How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton (1997)
• Essex County by Jeff Lemire (2009)
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (1922) 
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992) 
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) 
• Dark Entries: A John Constantine Novel by Ian Rankin  (2009)
• A New Leaf: Growing With My Garden by Merilyn Simonds (2011)

November

• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929)
• You Can Heal Yourself: A Guide to Physical and Emotional Recovery After Injury or Illness by Julie Silver (2012) 
• Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After by Vera Brittain (2008)
• The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (2005)
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen (1998)
• How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (2011)
• Teach us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing by Tim Parks (2010)
• New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978 by Janet B. Friskney (2007) 
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (1993)
• Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather (1931) 
• God's Sparrows by  Philip Child (1937)
• The Holding by Merilyn Simonds (2004) 
• The Mystery Horse by Louise Riley (1950)

December

• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012) 
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (2011)
• Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham (2013)
• Mary Janeway, The Legacy of a Home Child. by Mary Pettit (2000)
• The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (1926)
• The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou (2007)

2013 Totals:
Titles read 71 (69 books + 2 works of short fiction)
Fiction Books 51 (27 Canadian; 12 Classics; 7 Contemporary; 5 Children)
Non-fiction Books 18 (10 Memoirs; 6 General Non-fiction; 2 Biography)
Source (40 owned v. 28 library books v. 3 borrowed books)