Besides Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Nutcracker, and the hundreds of other books that I read to my kids this year, below is a list of grown up books that I read in 2013.

1. 

   The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway

2. The Fire Chronicle – John Stevens
3. The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton
4. Baghdad Without A Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia – Tony Horwitz
5. The Graveyard Book – Neal Gaiman
6. The Last Apprentice – Joseph Delaney
7. The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Leave No Doubt A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams – Mike Babcock
9. Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
10. Artemis Fowl The Arctic Incident – Eoin Colfer
11. Artemis Fowl The Eternity Code – Eoin Colfer
12. Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception – Eoin Colfer
13. Artemis Fowl The Lost Colony – Eoin Colfer
14. Artemis Fowl The Time Paradox – Eoin Colfer

15. 

    Artemis Fowl The Atlantis Complex – Eoin Colfer

16. Artemis Fowl The Last Guardian – Eoin Colfer
17. Zen in the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury
18. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
19. Dad is Fat – Jim Gaffigan
20. The Magician’s Elephant – Kate Dicamillo
21. Big Fish – Daniel Wallace
22. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
23. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neal Gaiman
24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K Rowling
25. Quitter – Jon Acuff

26. 

    Wintersmith – Terry Pratchett

27. The Wee Free Men – Terry Pratchett
28. The Children of Hurin – J.R.R. Tolkien
29. The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
30. Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
31. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
32. Start – Jon Acuff
33. Finding Atlantis – David King
34. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Cheers,

Bob