The Best of 2013 List...
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In Descending Order (links to the reviews included):
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir by Beth Kephart
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Imperfect Spiral by Debbie Levy
Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman
The Time Between by Karen White
Survival Skills: Stories by Jean Ryan
Unexplained Fevers by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
Solving the World's Problems by Robert Lee Brewer
The Scabbard of Her Throat by Bernadette Geyer
The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero, translated by Carolina De Robertis
Here are my honorable mentions for this year, in descending order (links to the reviews included):
The Gods of Heavenly Punishment by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent by Beth Kephart
Joyland by Stephen King
Seduction by M.J. Rose
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen
What books made your list of favorites this year?