Books I Read in 2020
What follows is a list of all the books I read in 2020.
(What follows that is a series of statistics regarding this list, and some other things.)
- The Free-Lance Pallbearers (1967) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 2–5)
- Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 6–8)
- Mumbo Jumbo (1972) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 9–14)
- Chattanooga (1973) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 15–16)
- The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 20–22)
- Flight to Canada (1976) by Ishmael Reed (Jan. 23–25)
- Imaginary Museums (2020) by Nicolette Polek (Jan. 26–27)
- The Novelist (????) by Jordan Castro (Jan. 28–29)
- *$50,000 (2020) by Andrew Weatherhead (Jan. 30)
- Infinite Hesh (2019) by Thomas J. Gamble (Jan. 31)
- The Network (2010) by Jena Osman (Feb. 3–4)
- Where We Go from Here (2018) by Bernie Sanders (Feb. 4–7)
- The New Jim Crow (2010) by Michelle Alexander (Feb. 12–16)
- Black Against Empire (2012) by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Feb. 17–21)
- Incognegro (2008) by Frank B. Wilderson III (Feb. 22–28)
- Bring the War Home (2018) by Kathleen Belew (Mar. 2–6)
- Barn 8 (2020) by Deb Olin Unferth (Mar. 6–10)
- *Revolution (2011) by Deb Olin Unferth (Mar. 11–12)
- Will and Testament (2016) by Vigdis Hjorth (Mar. 13–17)
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) by Olga Tokarczuk (Mar. 18–22)
- Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens (Mar. 22–Apr. 11)
- Flights (2007) by Olga Tokarczuk (Mar. 23–31)
- A House in Norway (2014) by Vigdis Hjorth (Apr. 1–7)
- Speedboat (1976) by Renata Adler (Apr. 12–13)
- Reuben Sachs (1888) by Amy Levy (Apr. 14–15)
- For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut (1982) by Takashi Hiraide (Apr. 16)
- Discounted (2020) by Erik Stinson (Apr. 17)
- The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton (Apr. 17–21)
- Ethan Frome (1911) by Edith Wharton (Apr. 22–23)
- The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton (Apr. 26–30)
- True Suede (2020) by Jon Leon (May 1)
- The Prick of Noon (1985) by Peter DeVries (May 2–4)
- Amazons (1980) by Cleo Birdwell (May 6–11)
- *American Psycho (1991) by Bret Easton Ellis (May 12–21)
- *A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion (May 22–26)
- *Salvador (1983) by Joan Didion (May 28–June 2)
- *Democracy (1984) by Joan Didion (June 7–10)
- *Miami (1987) by Joan Didion (June 11–16)
- The First Civil Right (2014) by Naomi Murakawa (June 17–18)
- The End of Policing (2017) by Alex S. Vitale (June 19–20)
- After Henry (1992) by Joan Didion (June 23–28)
- *The Last Thing He Wanted (1996) by Joan Didion (June 29–July 1)
- Political Fictions (2001) by Joan Didion (July 1–4)
- Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003) by Joan Didion (July 5)
- Where I Was From (2003) by Joan Didion (July 6–8)
- Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) by T. S. Eliot (July 6–10)
- Four Quartets (1943) by T. S. Eliot (July 6–10)
- Hellbox (1947) by John O’Hara (July 9–12)
- Audition (1997) by Ryu Murakami (July 14–15)
- Death in Her Hands (2020) by Ottessa Moshfegh (July 16–17)
- Mountain Road, Late at Night (2020) by Alan Rossi (July 18–19)
- A Rage to Live (1949) by John O’Hara (July 20–31)
- The Farmer’s Hotel (1951) by John O’Hara (Aug. 1–2)
- A Family Party (1956) by John O’Hara (Aug. 4)
- Baseless (2020) by Nicholson Baker (Aug. 6–10)
- U and I (1991) by Nicholson Baker (Aug. 13–14)
- Vox (1992) by Nicholson Baker (Aug. 15–17)
- The Fermata (1994) by Nicholson Baker (Aug. 18–22)
- Vernon Subutex 1 (2015) by Virginie Despentes (Aug. 22–24)
- Vernon Subutex 2 (2015) by Virginie Despentes (Aug. 26–29)
- Frantumaglia (2016) by Elena Ferrante (Aug. 30–Sept. 3)
- Coin Locker Babies (1980) by Ryu Murakami (Sept. 4–9)
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era (1994) by Ryu Murakami (Sept. 10–12)
- The Lying Life of Adults (2019) by Elena Ferrante (Sept. 12–17)
- Afropessimism (2020) by Frank B. Wilderson III (Sept. 18–22)
- The Shock Doctrine (2007) by Naomi Klein (Sept. 23–29)
- Different Seasons (1982) by Stephen King (Sept. 30–Oct. 3)
- The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole (Oct. 9–10)
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, vol. 2 (1840) by Edgar Allan Poe (Oct. 12–13)
- Tales (1845) by Edgar Allen Poe (Oct. 14–21)
- The Silence (2020) by Don DeLillo (Oct. 21)
- Yellow Grass (2020) by Josh Barber and Stephanie Hurtado (Oct. 22)
- *Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley (Oct. 22–24)
- The Cipher (2020) by Molly Brodak (Oct. 23–25)
- Instructions for a Painting (2007) by Molly Brodak (Oct. 25)
- Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Oct. 25–30)
- The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson (Nov. 1–3)
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1820) by Washington Irving (Nov. 4–10)
- Shrovetide in Old New Orleans (1978) by Ishmael Reed (Nov. 11–17)
- Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier (Nov. 12–22)
- Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon or The Hexorcism of Noxon D Awful (1970) by Ishmael Reed (Nov. 19)
- God Made Alaska for the Indians (1982) by Ishmael Reed (Nov. 19–21)
- Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison (Nov. 23–26)
- Jazz (1992) by Toni Morrison (Nov. 27–30)
- Paradise (1997) by Toni Morrison (Dec. 1–5)
- Long Live the Post Horn! (2012) by Vigdis Hjorth (Dec. 6–7)
- Vernon Subutex 3 (2017) by Virginie Despentes (Dec. 7–11)
- Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë (Dec. 12–18)
- *Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë (Dec. 19–25)
- *Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys (Dec. 26–28)
- The Left Bank and Other Stories (1927) by Jean Rhys (Dec. 28–30)
- Midwinter Day (1982) by Bernadette Mayer (Dec. 31)
*Previously read
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