Books of 2013

I was hoping to add one more book to the list, but I know that I'm not going to finish it by tomorrow night, so the following is a list of the books I read this year: 

1.  Bird by Bird---Anne Lamott
2.  The Mill River Recluse---Darci Chan
3.  On Writing---Stephen King
4.  Because We Are---Ted Oswald
5.  Astrid and Veronika---Linda Olsson
6.  The Kite Runner---Khaled Hosseini
7.  Water for Elephants---Sarah Gruen
8.  Lost and Found---Jacqueline Sheehan
9.  What was Lost--Katherine O'Flynn
10.  The Birds of East Africa---Nicholas Drayson
11.  The Call---Yannick Murphy
12.  Warm Bodies---Isaac Marion
13.  A Virtuous Woman---Kaye Gibbons
14.  The Monk Upstairs--Tim Farrington
15.  The Book Thief---Markus Zusak
16.  The Lovely Bones---Alice Sebold
17.  Garden Spells---Sarah Addison Allen

I already wrote a review about The Book Thief.  It's definitely my favorite book among all the fiction I read this year.

There are two books where I really loved the characters, although not necessarily the book itself.  I enjoyed Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan and What was Lost by Katherine O'Flynn.  In Lost and Found, I really enjoyed the author's depiction of the black labrador, so much so that it made me want a dog.  I really enjoyed Katherine O'Flynn's characters in her book and found the main protagonist really believable.

Have you read any of these books?  What book(s) did you read this year?