Books 2020
I’ve done a movies list for the longest time but just realized that oddly I’ve never done one for books. Same rule – read for the first time January 1 to December 31. This year I read about half the usual amount and much of that leaning towards a lighter side. But here are the top picks for best alphabetically.
And if I had to choose just a handful it would be Aickman, Elkin, Hurston, Jackson, Krasznahorkai and Shane.
Robert Aickman - Cold Hand in Mine (1975)
Martin Amis - The Information (1995)
Mike Carey et al - Lucifer, Books Three & Four (2005)
Leonora Carrington - The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (2017)
TJ Clark - The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers(1984)
Julian Cope - Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards (1995)
James S.A. Corey - Persepolis Rising (2017)
Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson - Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites (2010) & Volume 2: Neighborhood Watch (2019)
Lauren Elkin - Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London (2016)
Al Ewing & Joe Bennett - Immortal Hulk, Vols 1 to 6 (2018/19)
Michel Fiffe - COPRA Round One (2013)
Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop (1978)
Jonathan Fitzgibbons - Cromwell's Head (2008)
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889)
László Krasznahorkai - Satantango (1985)
Donna Leon - Quietly in Their Sleep (1997)
Kevin M. Levin - Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth (2019)
Sara Levine - Treasure Island!!! (2011)
Adrienne Mayor - Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology (2018)
Randall Munroe - How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems(2019)
Megan Kate Nelson - The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (2020)
Angela Saini - Superior: The Return of Race Science (2019)
Robert Scholes & Robert Kellogg - The Nature of Narrative (1966)
David Seabrook - All the Devils Are Here (2002)
Janelle Shane - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place (2019)
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (1848)
Ivy Noelle Weir & Steenz - Archival Quality (2018)
Martha Wells - Network Effect (2020)
G. Willow Wilson - The Butterfly Mosque: A Young Woman's Journey to Love and Islam(2010)
John Woolf - The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age (2019)