The Top 20 books of 2013 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Top 20 Best Books of 2013

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The Return of Faraz Ali
by Aamina Ahmad

In Aamina Ahmad's debut, The Return of Faraz Ali, the eponymous character is a police inspector in ...
The Wonders
by Elena Medel

Spanish poet Elena Medel's debut novel The Wonders (translated by Lizzie Davis and Thomas Bunstead) ...
Four Treasures of the Sky
by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

'…when our Chinese customers come asking for millet and green onions, buying licorice and ...
Hotel Magnifique
by Emily J. Taylor

A golden ticket or a gilded cage? Seventeen-year-old Jani and her younger sister Zosa are not sure ...

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by David R. Gillham

A captivating novel of a Berlin girl on the run from the guilt of her past and the boy from Brooklyn who loves her.

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The Immortal King Rao
by Vauhini Vara

A resonant debut novel obliterating the boundaries between literary and speculative fiction, the historic and the dystopian.

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Fly Girl
by Ann Hood

"Sheer pleasure. A hilarious and often moving look back at...a young woman's coming of age."
—Dennis Lehane

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