I read a lot of books. Since so many other subscribers to this site are also big readers, I’ve decided to list out all the books I’ve read this year. Not only that, but I’ll give a short little review of the books, maybe about 3-4 sentences. I’ll keep updating this page with each book I finish as the year progresses.
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Ploughshares Fall 2019 by Ladette Randolph
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Shakespeare’s Sonnets by William Shakespeare
The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop by Stephen Koch
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Virgin and Other Stories by April Ayers Lawson
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Creating Short Fiction: The Classic Guide to Writing Short Fiction by Damon Knight
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipul
Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Berkeley in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Hume in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell
The Good Solider by Ford Madox Ford
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings