Your Must-Read Books for 2013
December 4, 2012 at 10:13 am
by MomsterDarcy
In no particular order, here’s what’s on our reading list for the new year.
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected by Kelle Hampton: Mom, blogger and photographer Hampton artfully captures her embracing of life with her daughter, who has Down syndrome.
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: Darkly funny and disturbing. If you haven’t read it yet, see what the buzz is about it.
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple: The Girl Gone antidote. Quirky and full of heart novel about a not-your-average-mom trying to do her best for her family.
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver: Riveting story of a young woman who finds redemption and hope from a wayward beautiful colony.
Saturday Night Widows by Becky Aikman: What should be depressing—six real-life young(ish) widows—is instead joyous and life-affirming without losing its edge.
Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart: Talk about hair-ography. If you think he’s sexy, this one’s for you.
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman: Cooking expertise not required. Voyeuristically chow down on the mouthwatering pictures and even more satisfying girlfriendy recipe intros.
Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? by Rhoda Janzen: Just like her Mennonite in a Black Dress, Janzen’s artfully spins together spirituality, fashion, romance and humor.
Underwater Dogs by Seth Casteel: Puppy love at first photo—say aawwww.
Giant George: Life With the World’s Biggest Dog by Dave Nasser with Lynne Barrett-Lee: A heartwarming (though not cloying) true tale of The Guinness Book of World Records holder and his owners.
What’s on your reading list for 2013? Share in the comments below.
Darcy Jacobs is executive editor of Family Circle.
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I am also disapointed with this list. From this list I have read “Gone Girl” and I thought it was ok. I also prefer books with more thought and I had hoped to get a few books to add to our Book CLub list.
I agree with everyone else. I have a couple of these books on my to-be-read list. But I wouldn’t call them must read.
It’s a pretty short list to begin with, too bad it’s mostly populated with fluff.
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I agree the list is very disappointing. Won’t be reading any of those books!
I agree with Sherry, Maryanne, and rainyday girl above. Your sad choices make one wonder what you assume the average IQ of Family Circle readers is. You might want to choose new editors to make the selections.
Sorry, the list is disappointing. Did the author of the article consult any readers or just come up with a list that she might like to read? Bummer, I couldn’t wait to see what made the list. No teen suggestions?
I was not impressed with your choices. These books are pretty much not what I would spend my time with. I like books that make me think, show me another way of looking at things, take me to places I haven’t been, and challenge me! None of your choices are books I would read. I am disappointed.
These all seem to be light-weight novels. I expected a list of serious books that had some self-improvement value. Disappointing!
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