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 (8/20)
The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (8/20)
The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster (8/20)
Village School, Miss Read (7/20)
Wishing For Tomorrow, Hilary McKay (7/20)
The Bell Family, Noel Streatfeild (7/20)
Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild (7/20)
Riviera Gold, Laurie King (7/20)
*Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel (7/20)
The Book of Forgiving, Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu (7/20)
American Gods graphic novel, vol. 3, Neil Gaiman (7/20)
*And Go Like This, John Crowley (7/20)
Circe, Madeline Miller (7/20)
*The Changeling, Victor Lavalle (7/20)
Locke and Key, Joe Hill (6/20)
Mink River, Brian Doyle (6/20)
Ways of Going Home, Alejandro Zambra (6/20)
Tu quoque, Jake Andrews (6/20)
*The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel (6/20)
*Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel (6/20)
*Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (re-read, 5/20)
The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins (5/20)
A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park (5/20)
*Joey’s Case, K.C. Constantine (5/20)
A Glass of Blessings, Barbara Pym (5/20)
Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (5/20)
*Ulysses, James Joyce (5/20)
Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh (5/20)
River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh (re-read, 4/20)
Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (re-read, 4/20)
*The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis (re-read, 4/20)
*Collected Stories, Grace Paley (4/20)
*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)
