2020

Here are the books I’ve read during 2020:

  1. Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
  2. Adorning the Dark – Andrew Peterson
  3. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
  4. Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt
  5. Visions of Gerard – Jack Kerouac
  6. The Populist’s Guide to 2020 – Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
  7. The Best American Short Stories 1951 edited by Martha Foley
  8. Light in August – William Faulkner
  9. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  10. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
  11. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
  12. Pale Horse, Pale Rider – Katherine Anne Porter
  13. The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
  14. Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
  15. The Best American Catholic Short Stories edited by Daniel McVeigh and Patricia Schnapp
  16. Another Country – James Baldwin
  17. Davita’s Harp – Chaim Potok
  18. Old Men at Midnight – Chaim Potok
  19. The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
  20. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
  21. The Resisters – Gish Jen
  22. World and Town – Gish Jen
  23. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu
  24. Jack – Marilynne Robinson
  25. The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  26. Just Above My Head – James Baldwin
  27. The Best American Short Stories of the Century edited by John Updike
  28. The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War – Michael Gorra
  29. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories edited by Joyce Carol Oates
  30. Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories edited by Morris Allen Grubbs
  31. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot