The Best, The Worst

I had a pretty big list of books that I read for 2013, and so decided, for those interested in reading, or wanting to know what the best books were . . . I am going to present the top ten books that I read this year, (which was actually a challenge to whittle it down to only five). I also will give you the worst ten books I read this year. So here you go:

BEST BOOKS OF 2013 (not in any particular order)

1. A Short Stay in Hell, by Steven L. Peck

2. Ethics, by Benedict de Spinoza

3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman

4. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowlings

6. Looking for Alaska, by John Green

7. The Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

8. The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus

9. Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams

10. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates, by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein

WORST BOOKS OF 2013 (not in any particular order)

1. The Blithdale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

2. The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper

3. Unwind, by Neal Shusterman

4. Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

5. Family Happiness, by Leo Tolstoy

6. Deaf in America, by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries

7. Dissemination, by Jacques Derrida

8. The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West

9. Over Sea, Under Stone, by Susan Cooper

10. Short Stories, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some books I want to read/finish:

1. A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

2. Time Reborn by Lee Smolin

3. Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard

4. A Sickness Unto Death, by Soren Kierkegaard

5. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens