*indicates re-reads
Code by invierno.
Books of 2013
Books I've read this year
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
Natalie Zemon Davis, 1997
"Three women, not extraordinary, but not ordinary either and the legacy they left behind."
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell, 1950
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
Insurgent
Veronica Roth, 2012
"People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. - - You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them."
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #1)
Rick Riordan, 2010
"Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?"
The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus #2)
Rick Riordan, 2011
"I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder."
Pandemonium (Delirium #2)
Lauren Oliver, 2012
"That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes."
The Unknown Soldier
Väinö Linna, 1954
"Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze."
Across the Universe (Across the Universe #1)
Beth Revis, 2011
"--I am Eldest." Good for you, I think. Congrats on being old.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon, 2003
"Metaphors are lies."
The Maze Runner (Maze Runner #1)
James Dashner, 2009
"Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?"
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline, 2011
"--I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real."
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles, 429 BCE
"Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day"
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
"If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek"
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1890
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck, 1937
"Currently reading"
A Million Suns (Across the Universe #2)
Beth Revis, 2012
"Currently reading"
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice & Fire #1)
George R.R. Martin, 2012
"Currently reading"