It’s time for my annual reading report card.
My goal for 2020 was to read 50 books. I read 55. I am so awesome.
This year saw certain themes arise in my reading. A new love of Ursula K. Le Guin is a late one as is a fascination with Indian holy books and Eastern philosophy. There are the usual classics I’m catching up on, a few books I read for work—books on craft, theory, and editing, including my own. All in all it was a fascinating year in pages. Almost made up for hellish year that just passed. Here’s the list:
The Professional Thief, Edwin Hardin Sutherland
An Appointment with God, Mark Kirkbride
Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
5
Inspirational Poetry, William Blake
Naked Came the Florida Man, Tim Dorsey
An Appointment with God, Mark Kirkbride
High Magick, Damien Echols
The Successful Author Mindset, Joanna Penn
10
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Consider This, Chuck Palahniuk
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Revelation, Poppet Cycle Book 1, Donna J. Munro
Changing Wax, Jared Quan
15
LUW 85th Anniversary Anthology
The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
1619 Project, New York Times
Take Off Your Pants, Libbie Hawker
20
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro.
Art & Fear, David Bales & Ted Orland
True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Under the Black Flag, David Cordingly
25
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert (again)
30
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
After Progress, John Michael Greer
The Virginian, Owen Wister
Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran
35
The Practice of Poetry, Robin Behn & Chase Twichell
The Mormon War, Brandon G. Kinney
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Laurence Sterne
40
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
Writing in the Dark, Tim Waggoner
Jaws, Peter Benchley
How to be Good, Nick Hornby
Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh
45
Intimations: Six Essays, Zadie Smith
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Invention of Sound, Chuck Palahniuk
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method, Randy Ingermanson
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
50
Solutions and Other Problems, by Allie Brosh
The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang
The Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran
55
