What I read in 2013

Reading is a huge part of my life. It is an education, a source of inspiration, a comfort and an adventure. Here is a list of what I read in 2013, some of it was good, some not so great but, all of it gave me something to reflect on. I hope you find something here you may like

1. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzann
2. Grace  A Memoir by Grace Coddington
3. Save me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
4. The Hundred Year Old Man... by Jonas Jonasson
5. The Vogue Factor by Kirstie Clements
6. A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn french
7. The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
8.  Isabelle Blow by Martina Rink
9. Blow by Blow by Detmar Blow
10. Lola Benski by Lily Brett
11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
12. Alexander McQueen by Judith Watt
13. D.V. by Diana Vreeland
14. A Life in Frocks by Kelly Doust
15. Fabulous Nobodies by Lee Tulloch
16. The Liar by Stephen Fry
17. An Extraordinary Theory of Objects by Stephanie Lacava
18. Empress of Fashion by Amanda McKenzie Stewart
19. Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close
20. Black Jesus by Simone Felice
21. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
22. Journals by Keith Haring
23. Reading by Moonlight by Brenda Walker
24. The Secret River by Kate Grenville
25. Collected Poetry by T.S. Eliot
26. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
27. A.L.T. by Andre Leon Talley
28. It's all about the Dress by Vicky Tel
29. What Maisie Knew by Henry James
30. Encyclopedia of the Exquisite by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
31. The Adventuress by N.D. Coleridge
32. Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton
33. Vagina by Naomi Wolf
34. Tampa by Alison Nutting
35. Hungry by Crystal Renn
36. Legends of the Chelsea Hotel by Ed Hamilton
37. Tongue in Chic by Kirstie Clements
38. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
39. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
40. No Signposts at Sea by Vita Sackville-West
41. Flowers for Mrs, Harris by Paul Gallico
42. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
44. Summer in Algiers by Albert Camus
45. Something Childish but Very Natural by Katherine Mansfield
46. Night by Edna O'Brien
47. Allure by Diana Vreeland
48. Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorfs by Bergdorf Goodman
49. My Story by Marilyn Monroe
50. Fragments by Marilyn Monroe
 

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