It's the last episode of 2013! Let's ask two dozen of our pod-guests for the favorite books that they read in the last year! (Here's the cheat-sheet, if you don't wanna write them all down...)

Charles Blackstone Tampa - Alissa Nutting

Lisa Borders All This Talk of Love: A Novel - Christopher Castellani

Scott Edelman The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey - Fred Nadis

Drew Friedman Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman - Brad Ricca

Kipp Friedman Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy

Craig Gidney A Stranger in Olondria - Sofia Samatar

Ed Hermance Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations - Mary Beard

Nancy Hightower The Waking Engine - David Edison Sea Change - S.M. Wheeler

Jonathan Hyman The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert Caro

Maxim Jakubowski The Art of Disappearing - Ivy Pochoda

Ian Kelley Skagboys - Irvine Welsh

Roger Langridge Double Barrel - Zander Cannon, Kevin Cannon and Tim Sievert

Phillip Lopate My Face for the World to See - Alfred Hayes Contempt - Alberto Moravia

Hooman Majd After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story - Michael Hainey

Zach Martin Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Ron Rosenbaum The Erotic Poems - Ovid (tr. Green)

David Rothenberg The Woman Who Lost Her Soul - Bob Shacochis

Willard Spiegelman All That Is - James Salter Necessary Errors - Caleb Crain

Peter Trachtenberg The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn At Last - Edward St. Aubyn

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine - Victoria Sweet

Matt Wuerker River of Smoke - Amitav Ghosh Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power - Robert Kaplan