Monday, January 4, 2021

2020 Readings


2020 sucked. You know it. I know it. Here are the books I read this year. Annually, I do a detailed recap, and set 2021 goals, but since our goal is to merely make it to the end of this pandemic, I don't feel right with wide-eyed optimism.
1.) Trust Exercise: a Novel by Susan Choi

2.) The Sky Isn't Blue by Janice Lee

3.) Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

4.) American Dirt: a Novel by Jeanine Cummins

5.) My Year of Rest and Relaxation: a Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh

6.) And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges by Amber Sparks

7.) Anklet and Other Stories by Shome Dasgupta

8.) The Bonesetter's Daughter: a Novel by Amy Tan

9.) Weather: a Novel by Jenny Offill

10.) Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

11.) So We Can Glow: Stories by Leesa Cross-Smith

12.) Our Alternate Universes by Rachel Tanner

13.) Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote

14.) We the Animals: a Novel by Justin Torres

15.) Now We Haunt This Home Together: Stories by Madeline Anthes

16.) Lakewood: a Novel by Megan Giddings

17.) The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urban Heartland by Walter Thompson-Hernández

18.) Blacktop Wasteland: a Novel by S.A. Cosby

19.) All My Mother's Lovers: a Novel by Ilana Masad

2021 Readings, 2022 Goals

In keeping with the 2020 trend, my reading total was pretty sad, as you can tell.  As always, it's about quality, not quantity, but sure...