What we liked in 2013: books
Claire Armistead: Sir Alex Ferguson scored more than Helen Fielding and Eleanor Catton, while the big surprise is Stoner, a 48-year-old novel by an American university teacher who died nearly 20 years ago
Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell – review
Kathryn Hughes revisits the mystery surrounding John Ruskin's wedding night
Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott – review
Moral seriousness and gossipy skittishness from the American intellectual. By Jonathan Derbyshire
Blockbusters by Anita Elberse – review
So much for the long tail? Steven Poole on why the high-budget business model – big hits and big risks – is here to stay
Raised by Wolves – TV review
Stuart Jeffries: A genuine televisual first – a sitcom about intellectuals from a council estate
Coriolanus; Stephen Ward; Oliver! – review
Tom Hiddleston's Coriolanus is blazing but bleak, and there's as little love in a 60s sex scandal as there was in Dickens's London, writes Susannah Clapp
From the Fatherland With Love by Ryu Murakami – review
A subversive thriller about a North Korean invasion of Japan is laced with black humour, writes Alexander Larman
Correspondences by Anne Michaels – review
Anne Michaels's concertinaed pages of portraits and poetry contain a precise and bittersweet melancholy, writes Kate Kellaway
Wendy and Peter Pan – review
This reinvention of JM Barrie's story dispenses with the original's dark ambiguity, but there's still plenty to enjoy, writes Michael Billington
Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers – review
For years Eric Ravilious was dismissed as a mere craftsman rather than an important mid-century artist. But his Englishness borrowed from modernism and surrealism. By Michael Prodger
Breakfast with Lucian: A Portrait of the Artist, by Geordie Greig – review
Fascinating and appalling: the most revealing account of Lucian Freud ever written. By Frances Spalding
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography by Mike Tyson – review
Mike Tyson's account of his gargantuan struggles inside and outside the ring makes thrilling reading, writes Geoff Dyer
Live from Downing Street by Nick Robinson – review
Nick Robinson's likable stocking filler of a memoir rails against the bullying of broadcast journalists by politicians, writes Peter Preston
Dust by Patricia Cornwell – review
Kay Scarpetta is back for her 21st outing… and this time the icy blond pathologist is armed and dangerous, writes Alison Flood
A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston – review
The first volume of Anjelica Huston's memoirs is compelling, thoughtful, starry reading, writes Alexander Larman