The Top 20 books of 2013 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top 20 Best Books of 2013

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Eleanor & Park

by Rainbow Rowell

Hardcover: Feb 2013 | Paperback: Jun 2020

Critics' Consensus:

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own ...

Five Days at Memorial

Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

by Sheri Fink

Hardcover: Sep 2013 | Paperback: Jan 2016

Critics' Consensus:

Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and suspense-filled portrayal of the quest for truth and justice.

The Goldfinch

A Novel

by Donna Tartt

Hardcover: Oct 2013 | Paperback: Apr 2015

Critics' Consensus:

Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America; a story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the enormous power of art.

One Doctor

Close Calls, Cold Cases, and the Mysteries of Medicine

by Brendan Reilly

Hardcover: Sep 2013 | Paperback: Nov 2014

Critics' Consensus:

An epic story told by a unique voice in American medicine, One Doctor describes life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician.

The Luminaries

A Novel

by Eleanor Catton

Hardcover: Oct 2013 | Paperback: Oct 2014

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of The Rehearsal comes a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems....

How the Light Gets In

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #9

by Louise Penny

Hardcover: Aug 2013 | Paperback: Jul 2014

Critics' Consensus:

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life in Three Pines, finding long buried secrets--and facing a few of his own ghosts.

The Valley of Amazement

by Amy Tan

Hardcover: Nov 2013 | Paperback: Jul 2014

Critics' Consensus:

A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.

The Lowland

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Hardcover: Sep 2013 | Paperback: Jun 2014

Critics' Consensus:

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

by Neil Gaiman

Hardcover: Jun 2013 | Paperback: Jun 2014

Critics' Consensus:

This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real...

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

Hardcover: May 2013 | Paperback: Jun 2014

Critics' Consensus:

Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations

TransAtlantic

A Novel

by Colum McCann

Hardcover: Jun 2013 | Paperback: May 2014

Critics' Consensus:

The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Hardcover: Sep 2013 | Paperback: Apr 2014

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.

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