NPR has posted, "Book Concierge: Our Guide to 2013's Great Reads." In the Biography & Memoir category are books such as A. Scott Berg's Wilson (Putnam) and Jill Lepore's Book of Ages (Knopf). Under Staff Picks are Scott Anderson's Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday) and Wendy Lower's Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). And, the For History Lovers section includes lots of novels, as well as Carla Kaplan's Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance (Harper) and Neil Irwin's The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (Penguin).
The NYT also has a video accompanying its top ten list. On its non-fiction list is Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (Doubleday) by Peter Baker. On the NYT top-100 list are The American Way of Poverty (Nation) by Sasha Abramsky; Gary Bass's The Blood Telegram (Knopf); Jill Lepore's Book of Ages (Knopf); Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit (Simon & Schuster); and Packer's The Unwinding (FSG).
Jonathan Yardley, whose reviews are often included in the weekly Book Roundup, has issued his favorite books of 2013 in the Washington Post.
Three critics have also posted their favorites in the New York Times: Michiko Kakutani, Dwight Garner, and Janet Maslin.
And be sure to check out the fun list over at The Atlantic where staff writers share favorite books they have read this year, regardless of publication date. This list ranges from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power.
UPDATE: Salon has also posted a top book list for the year, here, and a "What to Read" list, here.
There's lots of good legal history missing from these lists... What are your top reads of 2013?
