With no commute to work it wasn’t my greatest reading year ever, but I managed to work some reading time back into my routine toward the end. Fiction standouts included The Dreamers (warning: it’s pandemic-related. Fortunately I read it in the blissfully ignorant first month of the year, before that theme became our whole lives), The Vanishing Half, and The Dutch House. Also loving Barbara Kingsolver, I’ll have to keep working through her catalog. In non-fiction, Maid has really stuck with me. Buckminster Fuller was brilliant, but boy is he hard to read.
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
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The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
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The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
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Agency
William Gibson
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Old Filth
Jane Gardam
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
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Theft
Luke Brown
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Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett