Best books: 2013

As in the best books I have read in 2013.

Fiction

• Connie Palmen, Ganz der Ihre
• C. J. Sansom, Revelation
• Anne Tyler, The Beginner’s Goodbye
• Martin Walser, Das dreizehnte Kapitel

Poetry/Plays

• Anne Carson, Antigonick
• Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
• Anne Carson, Red Doc>
• Mary Oliver, Thirst
• Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Non-Fiction

• Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen
• Rob Bell, What We Talk about When We Talk about God
• Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays
• Ian Morgan Cron, Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
• John Dominic Crossan, God and Empire: Jesus against Rome, Then and Now
• Barbara Glasson, A Spirituality of Survival: Enabling a Response to Trauma and Abuse
• Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941–43
• Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
• Magdalen Lawler, Christ Our Morning Star: The Art and Inspiration of Sieger Köder
• Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom
• Connie Palmen, I. M.: Ischa Meijer. In Margine. In Memoriam
• Marian Partington, If You Sit Very Still
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
• Richard Rohr, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality
• John Swinton, Raging with Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil
• Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith
• Samuel Wells and Marcia A. Owen, Living without Enemies: Being Present in the Midst of Violence