Mr. Varnell
The Best Books We Read in 2013
@Perfectrhyme:

• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Optimist, Joshua Mehigan
• Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Thomas De Quincey

@Abraxas01:

• Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
• A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin
• The Anubis Gates Tim Powers
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
• The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis

@somedamnname:

• The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, Neil Gaiman
• Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson
• Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim Novel, Richard Kadrey
• Dark City (Repairman Jack: The Early Years), F. Paul Wilson
• Insurgent, Veronica Roth

@Ceej:
• Moods, Rachel B Glaser
• Personae, Sergio de la Pava
• Shoot!, Luigi Pirandello
• Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle
• Speedboat, Renata Adler

@jeeho:

• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• On Writing Well, William Zinsser
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
• Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

@CleverPseudonym:

• Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
• The Aeneid, Virgil
• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

@afictional:

• Anecdotal Theory, Jane Gallop
• Rhythm Science, Paul D. Miller
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• if you don’t love the moon your an asshole, Steve Roggenbruck
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin
(Runner-up: Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon)

@superflyronald:

• Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber
• Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
• White Girls, Hilton Als
• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, Will Cuppy
• The Chairs Are Where The People Go, Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti

@Shaz:

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Paradise Lost, John Milton
• Tartuffe, Molière
• Elective Affinities, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

@Mr_Varnell:

• Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, Adam Bradley
• Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang
• Jay Z: The King of America, Mark Beaumont
• The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons
• Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Rachel Maddow
(Runner-up: The Anthology of Rap, Ed. Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois)

@Dalmo:

• Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
• Herman Melville - Benito Cereno
• Gayle Rubin - Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
• Richard Walters - M Programming: A Comprehensive Guide