Friday, January 1, 2021

2020 Reading List

Books I read in 2020. Quite a few more than a normal year, thanks to Covid. On the bright side, I discovered some new and amazing authors. The world keeps producing more and more of them all the time.

Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
Henrik Pontoppidan, Lucky Per
Ella Cara Deloria, Waterlily
Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Téa Obreht, Inland
E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder
Zadie Smith, Swing Time
Mario Levrero, Empty Words (trans. Annie McDermott)
Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Han Kang, The Vegetarian (trans. Deborah Smith)
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel
Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
John Mauceri, Maestros and Their Music
J. M. Coetzee, Foe
Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys
Robert Hicks, Orphan Mother
Paul Monette, Last Watch of the Night
N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became
Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Martin Riker, Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return
Anna Quindlen, Blessings
Sally Rooney, Normal People
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field
Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice
Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us
Sandra Newman, The Heavens
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
Ursula Hegi, The Vision of Emma Blau
Nell Zink, Doxology



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