The following is a list of the top 36 books (there was a tie for #35!) that our ReadingGroupGuides.com readers noted as their Favorite Book Group Reads of 2013. They are presented in order of those that received the most votes. Many thanks to all who contributed their selections to this list.

Favorite Book Group Reads of 2013

• THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS by M.L. Stedman **
• THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh                
• DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay **
• GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn
• ME BEFORE YOU by Jojo Moyes **
• THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce
• ORPHAN TRAIN by Christina Baker Kline **
• THE AVIATOR’S WIFE by Melanie Benjamin **
• THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak
• THE KITCHEN HOUSE by Kathleen Grissom
• LIFE AFTER LIFE by Kate Atkinson
• WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
• AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED by Khaled Hosseini
• THE CHAPERONE by Laura Moriarty **
• THE HUSBAND’S SECRET by Liane Moriarty **
• THE LIGHT IN THE RUINS by Chris Bohjalian
• THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain **
• WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE by Maria Semple
• THE ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich
• THE SECRET KEEPER by Kate Morton
• STILL ALICE by Lisa Genova **
• THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt
• HOME FRONT by Kristin Hannah
• THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern
• RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles **
• THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS by Rebecca Skloot
• THE ORCHARDIST by Amanda Coplin
• THE ART OF HEARING HEARTBEATS by Jan-Philipp Sendker
• IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson
• STATE OF WONDER by Ann Patchett
• THE HOMECOMING OF SAMUEL LAKE by Jenny Wingfield
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Anne Fowler **
• THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson
• THE SILENT WIFE by A. S. A. Harrison **
• ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger *  **
• ONCE WE WERE BROTHERS *  **

* Denotes a tie

** Please note that these titles were Bookreporter.com Bets On selections.