Top Ten Tuesday -- Best Books YTD

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic: the best books I've read so far in 2013.

The first 2 were 5 star reads. The rest were top 10 in no particular order.

1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
2. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
3. A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
4. Bitter Brew by William Knoedelseder
5. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
6. The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
7. An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
8. The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies (read, but didn't write up yet)
9. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
10. Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James

Review: Death Comes to Pemberley

Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It really wasn't in my plans, but now I feel like I need to reread Pride and Prejudice. This novel was nothing like any other P.D. James book, but it was a lot like a Jane Austen book. The tone was spot on and I loved that James decided why people in P&P did what they did and explained it all in this (essentially) sequal. I listened to this as an audiobook and the performance was very good except that occasionally the men's voices were a bit over done.

I'm thinking of participating in the Annual Austen in August event at Roof Beam Reader and may need to add P&P to my reading list for that.