The Observer Book of the Year2013

Given by The Observer

Other Names: Observer Book of the Year, The Observer's "Books of the Year"
40 Works 48,059 Books 2,730 Reviews ½ 3.8
Categories:
All, Biography (21), Biography and Memoir (10), Crima and thriller (1), Crime (18), Crime and fiction (1), Crime and thriller (15), Fiction (89), History (40), Nature (24), Politics (23), Science (12), Science Fiction & Fantasy (2), Science Fiction and Fantasy (20), Science books (6), Thriller (7), No Category (6)
Years:
All, 2017 (1), 2016 (88), 2015 (124), 2014 (41), 2013 (40), 1978 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
One Leg Too Few by William Cook
Biography2013
The Pike by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Biography2013
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
Biography2013
Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation by Andrew Lycett
Biography2013
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore
Biography2013
Olivier by Philip Ziegler
Biography2013
Lion Heart by Justin Cartwright
Fiction2013
Home Fires by Elizabeth Day
Fiction2013
Blood & Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant
Fiction2013
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Fiction2013
May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes
Fiction2013
The Deaths by Mark Lawson
Fiction2013
Unexploded by Alison MacLeod
Fiction2013
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
Fiction2013
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
Fiction2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Fiction2013
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Fiction2013
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction2013
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Fiction2013
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Fiction2013
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Fiction2013
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
History2013
Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute
History2013
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
History2013
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won by Saul David
History2013
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
History2013
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
History2013
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins
History2013
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
History2013
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale
History2013
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 by Rana Mitter
History2013
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
History2013
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts by Graham Robb
History2013
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE by Simon Schama
History2013
The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by Various
History2013
O My America!: Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler
History2013
Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler by Philip Ball
Science2013
Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race by Graham Farmelo
Science2013
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees by Tony Juniper
Science2013
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
Science2013

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