2020

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.  I’ll keep updating this page with each book I finish as the year progresses.

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Swamplandia! by Karen Russell

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Stein on Writing by Sol Stein

A Death in the Family by James Agee

Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Sing to It: New Stories by Amy Hempel

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Oleanna by David Mamet

Frogs by Aristophanes

Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

American Rust by Philipp Meyer

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Blindness by Jose Saramango

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Ernest Hemingway

The Paris Review #231

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes