2020-2022 reading roundup
I began tracking my reading in 2020, while finishing grad school, when I didn’t get through much reading outside of scientific literature. These are the books I read during those three yers, in order, with favorites bolded.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris
I Will Teach You to be Rich, Ramit Sethi
Father of Lions, Louise Callaghan
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Your Voice in My Head, Emma Forrest
Me Talk Pretty One Day (reread), David Sedaris
If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha
Normal People (reread), Sally Rooney
Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney
Possession (reread), AS Byatt
Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
The Vanishing Half, Bri Bennett
Hot Little Hands, Abigail Ulman
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
One to Watch, Kate Stayman-London
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Intimations, Zadie Smith
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
The Overstory, Richard Powers
My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir
Various short stories collections by Gabriel García Márquez
Veinte Poemas de Amora y una Cancion Desesperada, Pablo Neruda
Luster, Raven Leilani
Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Strange Bedfellows, Ina Park
Beautiful World, Where Are You? Sally Rooney
Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel
Ghosts, Dolly Alderton
Early Morning Riser, Katherine Heiny
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, Rodrigo Garcia
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante
Conversations with Friends (reread), Sally Rooney
The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante
Cien Anos de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Double Blind, Edward St. Aubyn
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Harry Potter #1 (reread), JK Rowling
Harry Potter #2 (reread), JK Rowling
Harry Potter #3 (reread), JK Rowling
Harry Potter #4 (reread), JK Rowling