*I gutted my reading lists from previous years…
One list I haven’t taken from is 2020
DECEMBER
The Leopard, Guiseppe Di Lampedusa
Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
Battleborn, Clare Vaye Watkins
The End of the Affair, Graham Green
NOVEMBER: 4 books,
Piranesi (11/18)
Pale Fire (11/15)
The Return (11/200
Age of Ambition
How we came to live in a split screen reality, Lawrence Scott
What if you could do it all over again, Joshua Rothman
The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem
What if friendship, not marriage, was at the center of life? Rhaina Cohen
On Pandering, Claire Vaye Watkins
OCTOBER: 2 books
Wind-up bird chronicle, Haruki Murakami
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari,
SEPTEMBER: 3: 1 novel, 1 essay, 1 story collection
The Neuromancer, William Gibson
Braindead Megaphone, George Saunders
The Angel Esmeralda, Don Delillo
AUGUST: 4 books; 3 novels, 1 non-fiction
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order
The Millennium Trilogy
JULY: 6 books; 1 poetry, 2 short story, 1 novel, 1 essay, 1 memoir
The Topeka School
Yoga for people who can’t be bothered to do it
A Model World, Michael Chabon
Stories of your life and others/Cleanness — more than half of each (waning interest in both)
Evening Man, Frederick Seidel
The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
JUNE: 4 books: 1 biography, 1 non-fiction, 1 memoir, 1 film
Gathering Evidence
Everyone Behaves Badly
Bergman on Bergman
H is for Hawk
MAY: 4 books: 2 novels, 1 literary, 1 philosophy
*Autumn, Ali Smith
The Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
Art of Dramatic Writing: it’s basis in the creative interpretation of human motives, Lajos Egri
On the Heights of Despair, Emil Cioran
APRIL: 8 books: 5 novels; 1 poetry; 2 literary
*The Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Notes From Underground, Dostoyevsky
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The French Lietenant’s Woman
Selected Poems, Tomas Transtromer
Unintended, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Making Movies, Sidnet Lumet
Pereira Maintains, Antonio Tabucchi
MARCH: 4 books: 3 novels; 1 literary theory
Distant Star
How Fiction Works, James Woods
Antwerp
The Loser
FEBRUARY: 1 book: 1 novel
A little life
JANUARY: Three books: 1 fiction, 1 memoir, 1 non-fiction
*The Mirage Factory
*The Secret History
*Chronicles
DECEMBER: 3 books: 1 literature, 1 history, 1 thought/cultural critique
Fantasyland*, Kurt Anderson
How to do Nothing*, Jenny Odell
Normal People*, Sally Rooney
NOVEMBER: 5 books : 4 literature, 1 writing
Fiction Writer’s Handbook [Nov 26th]
Train Dreams [Nov 24th]
Less Than Zero [No 19th]
The Third Reich - Nov 15th
Nadja, Andre Breton [Nov12th]
On Writing, Steven King [Nov 10th]