Saturday, January 2, 2021

Books I Have Read in 2020

 





I should say "read or re-read," for I have re-read, or re-listened, to many of these.  I go back to some of them over and over, and they are not classics.  They resonate with something in me; I haven't figured out what, though the themes of the books seem to tend toward Death, Mystery, and the Supernatural.

I feel sure that there are some books I didn't list here because I've forgotten them. So it goes:

 

1.      A Mind to Murder   P.D. James

2.      Leadership in Turbulent Times   Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.      Lincoln in the Bardo   George Saunders

4.      A Room of One’s Own   Virginia Woolf

5.      A Taste for Death     P.D.James

6.      A Trick of the Light     Louise Penny

7.      All the Devils are Here    Louise Penny

8.      And There Were None    Agatha Christie

9.      Bury Your Dead    Louise Penny

10.   Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies  and their Journey  Isabel Fonseca

11.   Cold Service    Robert Parker

12.   Cover Her Face     P.D. James

13.   Death of an Expert Witness  P.D.James

14.   Devices and Desires   P.D.James

15.   Garden revolution : how our landscapes can be a source of environmental change   Weaner

16.   Ghost Stories of an Antiquary    M.R.James

17.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows    J.K. Rowling

18.   How the Light Gets In    Louise Penny

19.   Hundred Dollar Baby    Robert Parker

20.   Magic Gardens – Herbs and seeds     Rosetta E. Clarkson

21.   Midnight in Chernobyl    Adam Higginbotham

22.   Never Let Me Go    Kazuo Ishiguro

23.   Now and Then    Robert Parker

     

24.   Slaughterhouse Five    Kurt Vonnegut

25.   Talking to Strangers:    Malcolm Gladwell

26.   The Beautiful Mystery   Louise Penny

27.   The Black Tower    P.D.James

28.   The Brutal Telling   Louise penny

29.   The Echoing Green- The Garden in Myth and Memory    Jennifer Heath

30.   The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History   Kassia St. Clair

31.   The Graveyard Book      Neil Gaiman

32.   The Historian    Elizabeth Kostova

33.   The Institute    Stephen King

34.   The Long Way Home    Louise Penny

35.   The Metamorphosis    Franz Kafka

36.   The Murder Room    P.D.James

37.   The Outsider    Stephen King

38.   The Professional   Robert Parker

39.   The Secret History    Donna Tartt

40.   The Stand   Stephen King

41.   The World of the Thriller    Ralph Harper

42.   Things Fall Apart    Chinua Achebe

43.   Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy  John LeCarre

44.   What it's like to be a bird : from flying to nesting, eating to singing     David Sibley

45.   Wide Sargasso Sea    Jean Rhys

 

 

Poetry Collections:

 

46.   Corbett, Maryann    Mid Evil

47.   Frost, Carol   Honeycomb

48.   Hardin, Jeff     Restoring the Narrative

49.   Harshman, Marc    Woman in Red Anorak

50.   Hass, Robert Bernard    Counting Thunder

51.   Hopkins, Gerard Manley   Poems and Prose

52.   Jacobsen, Josephine    In the Crevice of Time

53.   Jarman, Mark    The Heronry

54.   Jomes, Bill   Still Life in a Hurricane

55.   Kinnell, Galway    The Book of Nightmares

56.   Phillips, Emilia   Signaletics

57.   Ryan, Kay    The Best of It

58.   Shearin, Faith   Orpheus, Turning

59.   Taylor, Tess    Work and Days

60.   Yezzi, David   Black Sea





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