2013 Top Ten Reads
Books that entertained and/or impressed us most in 2013
Books listed in no specific order
Not everyone chose to participate.

Beth McKenzie

1. Kindness Goes Unpunished - Craig Johnson (Audio)
2. Blood and Circuses - Kerry Greenwood (Audio)
3. Full Dark House - Christopher Fowler (Audio) [review]
4. Midnight Riot - Ben Aaronovitch (Audio)
5. The Dirty Duck - Martha Grimes (Audio)
6. Snowy Valentine - David Petersen
7. Wendy Knits Lace - Wendy D. Johnson
8. Archie Meets Nero Wolf - Robert Goldsborough [review]
9. Courtney Crumrin: The Twilight Kingdom - Ted Naifeh
10. The Winter’s Sea - Susanna Kearsley

Bob Walch

1. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches - Alan Bradly
2. Cool Gray City of Love - Gary Kamiya
3. Brick by Brick - David Robertson
4. The Invisible Code - Christopher Fowler
5. His Majesty's Hope - Susan Elia MacNeal [review]
6. The Drunken Botanist - Amy Stewart
7. The Summer of Year and Whiskey - Edward Achorn
8. The Corpse Reader - Antonio Garrido
9. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill
10. The Demon Ologist - Andrew Pyper [review]
    

Brenda Weeaks

1. Digby Differs - Miriam Koch [review] (Children)
2. Murder in Chelsea - Victoria Thompson [review] (Deaf Character)
3. Ten Lords A-Leaping - C.C.Benison [review]
4. The Invisible Code - Christopher Fowler [review]
5. The Whole Enchilada - Diane Mott Davidson - (Audio)
6. Ghost Gone Wild – Carolyn Hart [review]
7. Standing in Another Man's Grave - Ian Rankin - (Audio) [review]
8. God Is Not Mad at You - Joyce Meyer [review]
9. Power Thoughts - Joyce Meyer - (Audio) [review]
10. Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits - (Audio) [review]

Carol Ann Johnson

1. Winners - Danielle Steele
2. Anybody's Daughter - Pamela Samuel Young
3. Who Asked You? - Terry McMillan
4. Big Girl's Do It Better - Jasinda Wilder
5. Confessions of A Prayer Slacker by Diane Moody
6. The Doctor's Wife - Mildred Riley
7. The Family Business 2 - Carl Weber
8. Runaway Attraction - Farrah Rochon
9. The Sins of the Mother - Danielle Steel
10. The Wealth of My Mother's Wisdom - Terrence J

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

1. The Well-Fed Self-Publisher - Peter Bowerman I highly
2. La Bella Mafia - Morgan St. James, Dennis N. Griffin
3. Wired for Story - Lisa Cron (Ten Speed Press
4. Screenplay - Syd Field
5. We Are Water - Wally Lamb
6. Red Hot Internet Publicity - Penny C. Sansevieri
7. Ignite the Genius Within - Dr. Christine Ranck / Christopher Lee Nutter
8. Smithsonian History Year by Year - DK
9. Story Engineering - Larry Brooks
10. All Is Vanity - Christine Schwarz

Cheryl Green

1. Going Through The Notions – Cate Price [review]
2. Murder a la Christie – Marilyn Levinson
3. Alibis & Amethysts – Sharon Pape [review]
4. To Kill A King – Mary Welk
5. A Potion To Die For – Heather Blake
6. Murder, She Barked – Krista Davis [review]
7. The Sayers Swindle – Victoria Abbott [review]
8. Double Whammy – Gretchen Archer
9. Buried Leads - LynDee Walker [review]
10. Hijack in Abstract – Larissa Reinhart

Courtney Skelton

1. The Search for FTL - Ted Iverson
2. Coldheart Canyon - Clive Barker
3. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4. When Nothing Else Matters - Michael Jordan’s
5. The Stranger Beside Me - Ann Rule.
6. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen.
7. Dog Eat Dog - Edward Bunker.
8. Blood - Jack Youngblood.
9. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen.
10. Gerald’s Game - Steven King
    

Elise Cooper

1. Camelot's Court - Robert Dallek [review]
2. Homeland: Carrie's Run - Andrew Kaplan [review]
3. The Quest - Nelson DeMille [review]
4. Question of Honor - Charles Todd [review]
5. My Mother's Secret - J L Witterick [review]
6. Second Watch - J A Jance [review]
7. The Trident - Jason Redman [review]
8. Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes [review]
9. The Kill List - Forsyth [review]
10. A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams [review]

Jan Fields

1. The Eye of Minds - James Dasher
2. Steelheart - Brandon Sanderson
3. Poison - Bridget Zinn
4. The Different Girl - Gordon Dahlquist
5. This Journal Belongs to Ratchet - Nancy J. Cavanaugh
6. The Garden Princess - Kristin Kladstrup
7. Bo at Ballad Creek - Kirkpatrick Hill
8. Rules for Ghosting - A.J. Paquette
9. Lara's Gift - Annemarie O'Brien
10. Listening for Lucca - Suxanne LaFleur

Jonathan Lowe

1. The War That Ended Peace - Margaret MacMillan (Audio) [review]
2. Command and Control - Eric Schlosser (Audio) [review]
3. Present Shock - Douglas Rushkoff (Audio)
4. Pilgrim's Wilderness - Tom Kizzia (Audio) [review]
5. Second Suns - David Oliver Relin (Audio) [review]
6. The End of Big - Nicco Mele (Audio) [review]
7. Light of the World - James Lee Burke (Audio)
8. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen (Audio)
9. Red Sparrow - Jason Matthews (Audio)
10. White Fire - Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (Audio)

Laura Hinds

1. The Good The Bad and The Witchy - Heather Blake [review]
2. The Tao of Martha - Jen Lancaster
3. The Last Word - Lisa Lutz [review]
4. With or Without You - Domenica Ruta
5. The Universe Versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence
6. Visitation Street - Ivy Pochoda
7. A Finder's Fee - Joyce and Jim Lavene [review]
8. Assaulted Pretzel - Laura Bradford [review]
9. The Returned - Jason Mott
10. Backward Glance - David Lomax

Leslie Halpern

1. The Diet Dropout's Guide to Natural Weight Loss- Stan Spencer PhD   [review]
2. A Wicked Thing - Michael Kasenow
3. The Essential Ernest Holmes - (edited) Reverend Jesse Jennings
4. Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems - Billy Collins
5. Infinite Self - Stuart Wilde

Linda Morelli

1. What the Spell - Brittany Geragotelis [review]
2. Oodles of Poodles - Linda O. Johnston [review]
3. The Dervish - Frances Kazan [review]
4. The Book of Killowen - Erin Hart [review]
5. The Last Grave - Debbie Viguie [review]
6. Midnight Secrets - Ella Grace [review]
7. Dead, Without a Stone to Tell It - Jen J. Danna w/ Ann Vanderlaan [review]
8. Braced for Murder - Sue Owens Wright [review]
9. Faith on the Rocks - Liesa Malik [review]
10. The Bones of Paris - Laurie R. King [review]

Linda young

1. Immortal Cravings - Kendra Leigh Castle
2. Born of Silence - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Audio) [review]
3. Domestic Malice - Jessica Fletcher [review]
4. 1356 a Novel - Bernard Cornwell
5. Inferno: Chronicles of Nick - Sherrilyn Kenyon (Audio)
6. Close-up On Murder - Jessica Fletcher [review]

Dr. Maxine Thompson

1. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngosi Adichie
2. LA Blues 3 (5 Smooth Stones) - Maxine Thompson
3. The Family Business 2 - Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez
4. To Paris with Love - Carl Weber and Eric Pete
5. Groupies Inc. - Kayenne
6. Crystal's Crush - Sparkle (Young Adult)
7. Attitude Reocnstruction - Jude Bijou
8. Forgive Us Our Inhibitions - Stephenee Yvet "Steev" Scott
9. I Ain't Me No more - E.N.Joy
10. Corruption in the Queen City - Earl Howard

Michael G'Francisco

1. Sherlock Holmes - Castle Books
2. Jack the Ripper - Rick Geary
3. Capone - John Kobler
4. Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
5. All the Kings Men - Robert Warren
6. The Greatest Generation - Tom Brokaw
7. Ranson's Folley - Richard H. Davis
8. Gem of the Prairie - Herbert Asbury
9. Accardo - William Roemer

Nicole Merritt

1. A Boys Life - Tobias Wolff
2. How to Make Love Like a Porn Star - Jenna Jameson
3. My Story - Elizabeth Smart
4. The Ultimate Family - John Pearson
5. Leap of Faith - Queen Noor
6. Wallis and Edward - Edited by Michael Blogh
7. Edward Windsor Royal Enigma - Wendy Leigh
8. Wrangler in Petticoats - Mary Connealy
9. Capote - Gerald Clarke
10. The Murder of the Rosenbergs - Stanley Yalkowsky

Rachel A. Hyde

1. The Revenge of Eli Monpress - Rachel Aaron [review]
2. Seven Kings - John R Fultz [review]
3. The Shadow Collector - Kate Ellis [review]
4. Killman - G W Kent [review]
5. The King's Corrodian - Pat McIntosh [review]
6. The Complete Book of Origami Animal - David Woodroffe [review]
7. The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon - Alexander McCall Smith [review]
8. Fold, Cut and Curl - Ayako Brodek and Shannon Voigt [review]
9. Shades of Milk and Honey - Mary Robinette Kowal [review]

Willie Elliott

1. The Litigators - John Grisham
2. Sycamore Row - Jonn Grisham
3. Pursued: God's Divine Obsession with You - Jud Wilhite
4. Kentucky Anthology - Edited by Wade Hall
5. Blue Highways - William Least Heat Moon [review]
6. Peace - Wendy Anderson Helperin [review]
7. Summer Saltz - Connie Sewell [review]
8. Jack Reacher One Shot - Lee Child
9. Junior Comes Home - Karen Poth [review]
10. The Case of the Coach Potato Caper - Karen Poth [review]