by Cristy Meiners, producer
Here are Salon.com’s senior book critic Laura Miller’s selections for the best books of 2013:
Fiction
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, by Mohsin Hamid
Nonfiction
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
Paleofantasy, by Marlene Zuk
Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala