Here’s the next installment of my annual tradition. A total of 69 books: 6 fiction and 63 non-fiction.

Best books I read for the first time in 2013: A Short History of Nearly Everything, Last Letters from Hav, A Confederacy of Dunces

Worst book I read in 2013: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Books Read in 2013

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (December 2013)
A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities (December 2013)
Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia (December 2013)
Signs, Cures, and Witchery (December 2013)
Honey, Mud, and Maggots (December 2013)
Witches, Ghosts, and Signs (November 2013)
Ether Day (November 2013)
Old English Patent Medicines in America (November 2013)
Rabies (November 2013)
Appalachian Folklore (November 2013)
Bleed, Blister, and Purge (November 2013)
The Prince of Medicine (October 2013)
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite (October 2013)
Mystic Healers & Medicine Shows (October 2013)
The Name of the Rose (October 2013)
Southern Folk Medicine (October 2013)
Quack: Tales of Medical Fraud (October 2013)
Frontier Medicine (September 2013)
A Time of Gifts (September 2013)
Strange Medicine (September 2013)
The Big Short (September 2013)
Black America Series: Gwinnett County, Georgia (September 2013)
Vanishing Gwinnett II (September 2013)
Victorian Pharmacy (September 2013)
Vanishing Gwinnett (August 2013)
About Lawrenceville (August 2013)
Under the Glacier (August 2013)
The Cabinet of Medical Curiosities (August 2013)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (August 2013)
The War of the End of the World (August 2013)
How Carrots Won the Trojan War (July 2013)
Venice: A New History (July 2013)
The Island of the Colorblind (July 2013)
Dinner with Persephone (July 2013)
Backlands (July 2013)
Riddle of the Labirynth (June 2013)
Video Night in Katmandu (June 2013)
Upshot of Irrationality (June 2013)
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (June 2013)
Heads In Beds (May 2013)
How to Travel With a Salmon (May 2013)
Worst Case Scenario: Travel (May 2013)
Pillars of Hercules (May 2013)
Museum of Lost Wonder (May 2013)
Pausanias I (May 2013)
A War Like No Other (April 2013)
Babylon (April 2013)
Weird Life (March 2013)
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life (March 2013)
The Psychopath Test (March 2013)
Visions of Infinity (March 2013)
A Tramp Abroad (March 2013)
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs (March 2013)
A Confederacy of Dunces (March 2013)
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (March 2013)
Pagan Holiday (February 2013)
101 Zen Buddhist Stories (February 2013)
A History of the World in 100 Objects (February 2013)
The Great Influenza (February 2013)
Hojoki (February 2013)
Eothen (February 2013)
Last Letters from Hav (February 2013)
Mazes and Labyrinths (January 2013)
Sacred Sites Bible (January 2013)
Tao of Travel (January 2013)
Eaten By a Giant Clam (January 2013)
Travels with Herodotus (January 2013)
Wicked Bugs (January 2013)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (January 2013)