Books I read in 2013

I re-read a few more books than usual this year, having decided that if I want to read something again, there's no reason I shouldn't. I started, but haven't finished, some books in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese; I hope to read them all in 2014.

January
-The Fifty Year Sword, Mark Z. Danielewski (1.6.13)
-Idoru, William Gibson (1.10.13) (reread)
-Redburn, Herman Melville (1.15.13)
-Chinese Gods: An Introduction to Chinese Folk Religion, Jonathan Chamberlain (1.23.13)
-The Folly of the World, Jesse Bullington (1.30.13)

February
-Exploding The Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell, Phil Lapsley (2.7.13)
-King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong, Jonathan Chamberlain (2.20.13)
-Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (2.24.13)

March
-The Magicians, Lev Grossman (3.9.13)
-Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars (Alan Brown, trans.) (3.11.13)
-Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (3.24.13)
-Dune, Frank Herbert (3.25.13) (reread)

April
-Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet, Arthur Waley (4.6.13)
-The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers from the Spectator, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell, "with questions and suggestions for study by Homer K. Underwood, A.M.", 4.23.13

May
-Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (5.2.13) (reread)
-The Bloody White Baron, James Palmer (5.6.13)
-The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Lucia Graves, trans.) (5.12.13
-The Magician King, Lev Grossman (5.25.13)

June
-1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline, Ray Huang (6.4.13)
-China in Ten Words, Yu Hua (Allan H. Barr, trans.) (6.6.13)
-Istanbul Passage, Joseph Kannon (6.16.13)
-The Lusiads, Luis Vaz de Camoes (William C. Atkinson, trans.) (6.30.13)

July
-Macau, China: A Political History of the Portuguese Colony's Transition to Chinese Rule, Steve Shipp (7.3.13)
-The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Eco (Richard Dixon, trans.) (7.18.13)
-Destroying Angel, Richard Paul Russo (7.20.13)
-The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage, Jan Morris (7.23.13)
-The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales, Mark Samuels (7.30.13)

August
-Macao, Philippe Pons (Sarah Adams, trans.) (8.3.13)
-Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community, Jon Hunner (8.27.13)
-The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (8.29.13)

September
-The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (9.3.13)
-Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (9.12.13) (reread)
-Three Ways to Be Alien: Encounters and Travails in the Early Modern World, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (9.16.13)
-Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon (9.25.13)

October
-Medieval Goa: A Socio-Economic History, Teotonio R. de Souza (10.22.13)
-Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East, Ralph S. Hattox (10.26.13)
-Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (10.29.13) (reread)

November
-The Book of Monelle, Marcel Schwob (Kit Schluter, trans.) (11.19.13)
-The Confusion, Neal Stephenson (11.19.13)
-Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, Catalina de Erauso (Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto, trans.) (11.23.13)

December
-Goa to Me, Teotonio R. de Souza (12.1.13)
-Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815, C.R. Boxer (12.2.13)
-Virtual Light, William Gibson (12.16.13) (reread)
-The System of the World, Neal Stephenson (12.20.13)
-Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415-1825, C.R. Boxer (12.22.13)
-Burning Chrome, William Gibson (12.24.13) (reread)
-A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer, Pierre Mac Orlan (Napoleon Jeffries, trans.) (12.30.13)


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