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Top Ten Novels of 2013

We Are All ​Completely Beside Ourselves​
We Are All ​Completely Beside Ourselves​

Fowler's new novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, is a different literary creature altogether — still witty but emotionally and intellectually riskier, and more indebted to Fowler's other books that toy with the sci-fi genre.

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All the Light ​We Cannot See​
All the Light ​We Cannot See​

All the Light We Cannot See is a novel written by American author Anthony Doerr, published by Scribner on May 6, 2014. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

The Bone ​Clocks​
The Bone ​Clocks​

Dot Although many of Mitchell's characters appear in multiple books, not everyone appears in The Bone Clocks. This article has a (possibly incomplete?)…more Although many of Mitchell's characters appear in multiple books, not everyone appears in The Bone Clocks.

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The Paying ​Guests​
The Paying ​Guests​

Summary and reviews of The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters, plus links to a book excerpt from The Paying Guests and author biography of Sarah Waters.

The Narrow ​Road to the Deep North​
The Narrow ​Road to the Deep North​

The novel deals both with the effects of war and the many forms of love. Background. Flanagan has described, in The Sydney Morning Herald, how his father's experience of being a Japanese POW influenced him to write the book. References. Flanagan, Richard (2013). The Narrow Road to the Deep North. North Sydney, N.S.W.: Random House Australia.

All Our ​Names​
All Our ​Names​

All Our Names has some fantastic moments, for sure. Mengestu's ability to tell stories, in particular, shines in the story of 'disappearing city', a 2-3 page parable that is remarkable. There were many times where I underlined some truly beautiful sentences and paragraphs.

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All My Puny ​Sorrows​
All My Puny ​Sorrows​

Summary and reviews of All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews, plus links to a book excerpt from All My Puny Sorrows and author biography of Miriam Toews.

Orfeo​
Orfeo​

There are two main narrative threads in the novel, both centered on Peter Els. The novel begins and ends in the winter of 2011, from the accidental discovery by the authorities that Els was doing home genetic experiments to his flight across the country.

Redeployment​
Redeployment​

Redeployment is a collection of short stories by American writer Phil Klay. His first published book, it won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle's 2014 John Leonard Award given for a best first book in any genre.

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A Girl Is a ​Half-Formed Thing​
A Girl Is a ​Half-Formed Thing​

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing is completely modern in its sensibility and completely old-fashioned in the way it triumphantly ignores the needs of the book market. It took nine years, apparently, to find a publisher.

Boyhood ​Island: My Struggle Book 3​
Boyhood ​Island: My Struggle Book 3​

Boyhood Island: My Struggle 3 by Karl Ove ... a real struggle which is also the book itself ... competition for unlikely novel titles by proposing “My Struggle, ...

How to Be ​Both​
How to Be ​Both​

How to be both contains two stories, one (Eyes) about a fifteenth-century artist, Francesco del Cossa, and one (Camera) about a modern-day teenage girl, George, designed to be read in whatever order the reader desires.

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Outline​
Outline​

This type of outline can be tedious and involves a lot of drafting but it is worth it in the end to have a solid outline to follow as you write your novel. The process for this type of outline for a novel is to start off brainstorming.

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The ​Miniaturist​
The ​Miniaturist​

When is The Miniaturist on TV? The novel has been adapted into a two-part programme with ... "I first came across Jessie’s extraordinary book in manuscript in 2013.

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The ​Temporary Gentleman​
The ​Temporary Gentleman​

The Temporary Gentleman, however, is narrated by the bad guy. Jack is a drinker, a gambler, an absent father, a neglectful husband, a gunrunner and, at the end, a coward, afraid to return home. The hallmark heightened lyricism and stylised idiom of old is still there, but it is tamped down by Jack's rueful voice.

To Rise Again ​at a Decent Hour​
To Rise Again ​at a Decent Hour​

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour has 12,895 ratings and 2,161 reviews. A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life by Na... To Rise Again at a Decent Hour has 12,895 ratings and 2,161 reviews.

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An Untamed ​State​
An Untamed ​State​

An Untamed State is an incredibly intense, brutal book, touching almost every emotion imaginable (horror, terror, humor, pride, strength, and romance…yes, all in one book).

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The Book of ​Strange New Things​
The Book of ​Strange New Things​

A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents.

Nora Webster​
Nora Webster​

What Tóibín specialises in, most particularly in his Wexford novels – of which Nora Webster could be called the fifth, but is more properly the third, after The Heather Blazing (1992) and The Blackwater Lightship (1999) – is a stylistic faithfulness to the largely undramatic middle-class landscape of south-eastern Ireland.

The Children ​Act​
The Children ​Act​

Home Best Kids Stories Best Young Adult Novels of 2013. ... Bianca Schulze. 0. Best Young Adult Novels of 2013. The Children’s Book ... A Story About a Simple Act ...

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Find your next great read with NPR Books' best-of-2013 reading guide.

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Boy, Snow, ​Bird​
Boy, Snow, ​Bird​

In Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi uses a well known fairytale to tell a smart, suggestive story about family secrets, (internalized) racism, and identity. Its ending though, is a problem. We start the book with meeting Boy Novak, a young woman running away from her life with horrible abusive father Frank, a famous rat-catcher in New York.

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The ​Assassination of Margaret Thatcher​
The ​Assassination of Margaret Thatcher​

Her last two novels, WOLF HALL and BRING UP THE BODIES, chronicle the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell. (The third book of the series comes out next year.) An earlier work, A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY, takes place during the Reign of Terror.

On Such a ​Full Sea​
On Such a ​Full Sea​

On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane.

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The Book of ​Unknown Americans​
The Book of ​Unknown Americans​

Cristina Henríquez will read from The Book of Unknown Americans on June 18 at BookPeople in Austin; June 19 at Brazos Bookstore in Houston; and June 20 at the Dallas Museum of Art. In a 2009 TED talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted that “the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

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An ​Unnecessary Woman​
An ​Unnecessary Woman​

With "An Unnecessary Woman," the author goes in an entirely different direction. The novel's narrator is an elderly Lebanese woman living in Beirut who translates novels -- one a year -- as a hobby.

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Song of the ​Shank​
Song of the ​Shank​

Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, ... into a song on his piano. ... Song of the Shank is a wonderfully rich book, ...

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