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: Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
by Robin Sloan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was funny, it was charming, it included a quest, ancient books, historical info on typography, lots of computing power, and a dungeon master. What more could you want from a book? Also, the ending was perfect for the story.

"A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time." (p. 288)

If you want a second opinion, check out the Indextrious Reader's review which also includes a very cool reading map.