A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year.
2020
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (on deck)
Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh (on deck)
River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh (re-read, on deck)
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (re-read, reading now)
*The Peregrine, J.A. Baker (4/20)
Eventide, Kent Haruf (3/20)
Binny Bewitched, Hilary McKay (3/20)
The Death of Innocents, Sister Helen Prejean (3/20)
*Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov (3/20)
*In This House of Brede, Rumer Godden (3/20)
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro (3/20)
*Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick, Zora Neale Hurston (3/20)
Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (3/20)
Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (3/20)
The Power of Three, Diana Wynne Jones (3/20)
*A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe (3/20)
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (3/20)
The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (3/20)
Red Bones, Ann Cleeves (2/20)
Miss Pinkerton, Mary Robertson Rinehart (2/20)
*The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (2/20)
*The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (2/20)
Mary Toft, The Rabbit Queen, Dexter Palmer (2/20)
Gods of Tango, Carolina de Robertis (2/20)
*Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss (2/20)
Among Others, Jo Walton (re-read, 2/20)
Call Down the Hawk, Maggie Stiefvater (2/20)
The Raven King, Maggie Stiefvater, (re-read, 2/20)
Raven Cycle, Maggie Stiefvater, vol. 1-3 (re-read, 1/20)
March, John Lewis, vol 1-3 (1/20)
*Underland, Robert McFarlane (1/20)
*The Book of Delights, Ross Gay (1/20)
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino (1/20)
At Last, Edward St. Aubyn (1/20)
