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Book Riot, a site for all things book love, polled its users and asked for their top three nominations for best book published in 2013. While the list had some issues when readers weren’t always on top of what month a book was published (and therefore affected the year of publication), over five hundred readers nominated a total of 473 unique titles to the list, of which users were then asked to vote.
The breakdown of the top twenty-four reader favorites and the number of votes each title received is as follows: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (73 votes)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (62)
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (54)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (40)
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (32)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (27)
Night Film by Marisha Pessl (26)
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (26)
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (24)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (24)
Tenth of December by George Saunders (21)
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (21)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (21)
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (18)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (17)
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (16)
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (16)
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (14)
The Son by Philipp Meyer (13)
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (13)
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood (13)
Inferno by Dan Brown (13)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (12)
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (11) It is unfortunate the none of the nominees on this list is a self-published title, but as this list was reader-generated, it may be a telling sign of both how consumers perceive self-publishing, as well as how indie authors still have their work cut out for them in terms of viable promotion opportunities to help readers know about their work. After all, readers can’t vote for books if they never discover them. The list of all books that received votes is posted on the Book Riot website, but as the company posed to its readers, the question remains: is this list accurate, and are your favorites on it? What books were overlooked this year? Book Riot Readers Select Their Favorite Books of 2013 is a post from: E-Reader News | 
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