I did A LOT of reading this year. I suppose being stuck at home during a pandemic will do that for you.
Total books read: roughly 160
Fiction: 62% Non-Fiction: 38%
Below are some of the ones I liked best, in no particular order. While I read fewer non-fiction titles, more of them stuck with me as memorable.
BEST FICTION – SF, Fantasy, Horror
Plain Bad Heroines, Emily Danforth
In That Endlessness, Our End, Gemma Files. Gemma managed to make me afraid of Airbnbs, old houses, downtown Toronto, writing groups, and Northern Ontario. Plus numerous other things. Thanks, pal.
Severance, Ling Ma – which pairs nicely with Everything You Ever Wanted, Luiza Sauma
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Fisherman, John Langan
A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine
The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, Nghi Vo
Witness for the Dead, Katharine Addison (plus a reread of The Goblin Emperor)
Temporary, Hilary Leichter
Living Alone, Stella Benson
BEST FICTION – Other
The Corner that Held Them, Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Queen’s Gambit, Walter Tevis
The Leftovers, Thomas Perrotta
Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
The Hearing Trumpet and The Collected Stories, Leonora Carrington
The Weekend, Charlotte Wood
Leonora in the Morning Light, Michaela Carter
BEST NON-FICTION – Politics, Society, and Related
Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe
Everything Now ,Rosencrans Baldwin
The Next Supper, Corey Mintz
Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner – pairs very nicely with the novel Sourdough, Robin Sloan
BEST NON-FICTION – Art, Music, Literature
Villa Air-Bel, Rosemary Sullivan
On Freedom and The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson
The Lonely City, Olivia Laing
Putting it Together, James Lepine
Where am I Now? Mara Wilson
Beeswing, Richard Thompson
My Rock ‘n’ Roll Friend, Tracey Thorn
Astounding, Alec Nevia-Lee
BEST NON-FICTION – Science, Nature and History
A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings, Helen Jukes
Kindred, Rebecca Wragg Skyes
The Story of More, Hope Jahren
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder, Julie Zarankin
A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul
Against the Grain, James Scott – pairs very nicely with The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Anarchy, William Dalrymple
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow – pairs nicely with Eliza Hamilton, Tilar J. Mazzeo
The Verge: Forty Years that Shook the World, Patrick Wyman
Hero of Two Worlds, Mike Duncan
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