Here are the books I’ve read during 2020:
- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
- Adorning the Dark – Andrew Peterson
- The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
- Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
- Visions of Gerard – Jack Kerouac
- The Populist’s Guide to 2020 – Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
- The Best American Short Stories 1951 edited by Martha Foley
- Light in August – William Faulkner
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
- Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
- Pale Horse, Pale Rider – Katherine Anne Porter
- The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
- Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
- The Best American Catholic Short Stories edited by Daniel McVeigh and Patricia Schnapp
- Another Country – James Baldwin
- Davita’s Harp – Chaim Potok
- Old Men at Midnight – Chaim Potok
- The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
- The Quiet American – Graham Greene
- The Resisters – Gish Jen
- World and Town – Gish Jen
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu
- Jack – Marilynne Robinson
- The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Just Above My Head – James Baldwin
- The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike
- The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War – Michael Gorra
- The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
- Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories edited by Morris Allen Grubbs
- Daniel Deronda – George Eliot