Our Novel Escape discussion

How many of the Goodreads Best Books of 2013 have you read? Or, to put it differently, how many have you realized that you have *not* read and would like to read this year? Well, let this challenge fix that for you! Go to the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 main page and look over all of the categories, including all nominees as well as the winners. You can view the entire category just by clicking the name of it above the winning books. Choose however many books you would like to tackle this year and report back to this thread with your progress.

Rules:
1. Choose from ANY category, any number of books (nominees or winners)!
2. Report here with a link to the book and the date you finished reading. Feel free to share your rating and a quick review, if you'd like.

Duration: January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014

For fun, you can choose your Level ahead of time!
Level 1 Bronze: 3-to-5 books
Level 2 Silver: 6-to-10 books
Level 3 Palladium: 11-to-15 books
Level 4 Gold: 16-to-20 books
Level 5 Platinum: 21 books and up!

res for participants

I'll participate (or at least try to. lol) and aim for 4.
Completed: 0/4

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin

Terrific, Zara! You can do it!!

I'm in for 6.

Fiction:
Tenth of December by George Saunders
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

Historical Fiction:
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

History and Biography:
Winner - Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson

For fun, would you care to share which categories you are choosing from?

Anyone else want to sign up? This is for the entire year, so you have time!

I'm in for a random amount! I'll just choose as I go.

Young Adult
- ***** 1/10/13
*Winner: - To Read
- To Read
- To Read
- To Read
- To Read

Mystery
- To Read

......more to come

I'm in for Level 3, Palladium. (11-15)
Completed: 4 of 14

1. NOS4A2 01/14/14
2. The House Girl 1/31/14
3. The Girl You Left Behind
4. The Shining Girls finished 1/20/14
5. Necessary Lies
6. The Painted Girls
7. A Hundred Summers
8. The Accursed
9. The Perfume Collector
10. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
11. David and Goliath finished 1/25/14
12. Fangirl
13. Rose Under Fire
14. The Beginning of Everything

1/14-12/14

3/10
1. If You Find Me
2. This is What Happy Looks Like 4-17-14
3. Distance Between Us
4. Where the Stars Still Shine
5. Opal
6. Darkest Minds
7. Doll Bones 1-18-14
8. Fortunately, the Milk
9. Golden
10. Counting by 7's 1-14