Looking back at the books I read this year –  I am quite pleased with the way I have widened my horizons and experimented with genres and authors. I have another quarter before we wrap up the year and I look forward to reading more.

I am participating in Anne & Kristilyn’s 2013 BooK Bingo Reading Challenge. The objective is the read a variety of books through the year and ensure that we cross off all the boxes. This is the 3rd quarter update.

I NEED RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FREE SQUARE – challenge participants please post your recommendations

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

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

Q1

• Austenland #1
• The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy #1)
• Harry Potter  Series (Books 1 to 5)

{I have the next 2 books in the Shiva Trilogy on reserve at my library. Hopefully it will come in time for me to finish the challenge}

Books Released in 2013 column

Q3

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

I have picked up a copy of Inferno to read. I also plan to read The Cuckoo’s Calling, How the Light gets in, and The Lowland.

Q2

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

Books everyone has read by me column

Q3

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

I have started reading Gone with the Wind. I need 5 more books to wrap this row up.

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

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

Eat, Pray, Love – I picked this book up and have started reading it. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the other book I plan to read to finish this row.

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