What a great year it has been! Remember this post I made about the challenges I was going to be a part of? I posted it unsure if I will get the targets. I did successfully complete all the challenges and instead of randomly reading books I planned, covered a variety of genres and authors. It has been an absolute amazing journey.

I challenged myself to read 75 books on GoodReads and without counting re-reads I hit the target by mid-November. Again I surprised myself. It made me wonder if I should have set higher targets. I end the year with 90 books read (+15 re-reads). I have a couple of books I picked from the library and a couple I started but have not managed to complete. I guess they will be pushed to 2014 as I don’t plan to read much the next 4 days of the year.

I also managed to read 6 Australian Women Writers (AWW 13) for another challenge I am a part of. The books with a * next to them are my reads for AWW 13.

I am also set for 2014 challenges.

Here is a list of all the books I read for Anne & Kristilyn’s 2013 Book Bingo Reading Challenge.

Books from the TBR pile column

Q2

• The Kitchen God’s Wife
• All the flowers in Shanghai
• Jana Bibi’s Excellent Fortunes
• Gone Girl

Q1

• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• The Color Purple
• Love and Longing in Bombay
• English August
• A farewell to Arms
• Arranged Love
• The Wandering Falcon
• Pleasure seekers
• Games at Twilight
• The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
• The Secret Wishlist

Books that are a part of a series column

Q4

• Tears of the Giraffe (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #2)
• The Kalahari Typing School for Men ((No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #4)

Q3

• Bury your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6)
• The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3)
• A Trick of Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #7)
• The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #8)

Q2

• Midnight in Austenland (Austenland #2)
• The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency (No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, #1)

Q1

• Austenland #1
• The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy #1)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter #1)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)

Books Released in 2013 column

Q4

• Inferno
• Visitation Street
• How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #9)
• The Longest Ride
• We are Water

Q3

• Oleandar Girl
• Paper Aeroplanes
• Z: A novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
• Life after Life

Q2

• If I could Tell You
• The House Girl
• And the Mountains echoed

Free Square

Persuasion

Books everyone has read by me column

Q4

• Gone with the wind
• The Thorn Birds*
• The Book Thief
• Tuesdays with Moorie
• The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants
• The Handmaid’s Tale

Q3

• The Great Gatsby
• The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Q2

• Pride and Prejudice
• Wuthering Heights
• The Kite Runner
• Oliver Twist
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (I have never read this book before and it was quite a pleasure to finally read it )
• The Diary of Anne Frank

Re-read books Column

Q4

• Eat, Pray, Love
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Q3

• The Sea of Poppies
• Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1)
• Never Let Me Go
• Julie and Julia
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2)
• The Lovely Bones
• To Kill a Mocking Bird
• Memoirs of a Geisha

Q2

• Harry Potter (Book 6)
• White Tiger
• The Palace of Illusions
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• East Wind: West Wind

Additional Books read in 2013

• Wanderlove
• The Krishna Key
• Water for Elephants
• The Submission
• Mrs.Dalloway
• The Bee’s Kiss (Joe Sandilands #5)
• Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #2)
• No one writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
• Bitter Sweets
• A Monsoon Feast
• Naomi
• The House on Mango Street
• Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon #1)
• Running from Love
• The Bell Jar
• The Secret River*
• Picnic at Hanging Rock*
• India Black (Madam of Espionage Mysteries #1)
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Q and A
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
• Where’d You Go, Bernadatte
• The Boy Who Fell to Earth*
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• The Hope Factory
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• Sex, Lies and Bonsai*
• Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
• Addition*