It should come as no surprise that Goodreads has followed (copied?) Amazon with its own top reads of 2013. Here they are - by genre.
Fiction - Khaled Hosseini - And the Mountains Echoed
Mystery & Thriller - Dan Brown - Inferno
Historical Fiction - Kate Atkinson - Life After Life (I didn't agree with this one for Amazon
or, now, for Goodreads)
Fantasy - Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Paranormal Fantasy - Jim Butcher - Cold Days
Science Fiction - Margaret Atwood - Madd Addam
Romance - J.R. Ward - Lover at Last
Horror - Stephen King - Doctor Sleep (aren't there any horror writers out there besides
King and Koontz?)
Memoir & Autobiography - Malala Yousafzai - I am Malala
History & Biography - Brian Jay Jones - Jim Henson, The Biography
Nonfiction - Temple Grandin/Richard Panek - The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the
Spectrum
Food & Cookbooks - Tim Federle - Tequila Mockingbird, Cocktails with a Literary Twist
Humor - Allie Brosh - Hyperbole and a Half, unfortunate situations, flawed coping
mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
Graphic Novels & Comics - Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl/Cassandra Jean - Beautiful
Creatures: The Manga
Poetry - J.R.R. Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien - The Fall of Arthur
Debut Goodreads Author - Emma Chase - Tangled
Young Adult (YA) Fiction - Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park
Young Adult (YA) Fantasy - Veronica Roth - Allegiant
Middle Grade & Children's - Rick Riordan - The House of Hades
Picture Books - Drew Daywalt/Oliver Jeffers - The Day the Crayons Quit
There you have it. Just in time for holiday shopping. Everybody you know has to fit into one of these categories...Don't they?
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