Books Read 2020

1. “Adèle” — Leïla Silmani  (January)
2. “Femme Fatale” — Polly Wiseman  (January)
3. “A Man’s Place” — Annie Ernaux  (January)
4. “The Man Who Saw Everything” — Deborah Levy  (January)
5. “The Italian Teacher” — Tom Rachman  (January)
6. “In the Café of Lost Youth” — Patrick Modiano  (January)
7. “Walthamstow” — Michael Shann  (January)
8. “Vivian” — Christina Hesselholdt (January)
9. “Soho” — Richard Scott  (January)
10. “Night Sky with Exit Wounds” — Ocean Vuong  (January)
11. “The Pharmacist” — Justin David  (January)
12. “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes Music, Music, Music Boys, Boys, Boys” — Viv Albertine  (Feb)
13. “Charlotte” — David Foenkinos  (February)
14. “How to Relax” — Thich That Hanh  (February)
15. “The Nickel Boys” — Colson Whitehead  (February)
16. “Strange Hotel” — Eimear McBride  (February)
17. “Great Fires: Poems 1982 - 1992” — Jack Gilbert  (February)
18. “Gunslinger” — Edward Dorn  (March)
19. “The Cost of Living” — Deborah Levy  (March)
20. “Melisande! What Are Dreams?” — Hillel Halkin  (March)
21. “Do/Pause” — Robert Poynton  (March)
22. “The Counterlife” — Philip Roth  (March)
23. “Everything I Know About Love” — Dolly Alderton  (April)
24. “Little Miss Awesome” — Ally North  (April)
25. “Little Miss Awesome” — Steve Hussy  (April)
26. “The Facts” — Philip Roth  (April)
27. “Hating Olivia” — Mark SaFranko  (April)
28. “Steps” — Steve Hussy  (April)
29. “Fugitive Pieces” — Anne Michaels  (April)
30. “Insel” — Mina Loy  (April)
31. “The Long Drop” — Denise Mina  (April)
32. “Lincoln in the Bardo” — George Saunders  (April)
33. “Mindfulness in Plain English” — Bhante Henepola Gunaratana  (April)
34. “The Undertaking” — Audrey Magee  (April)
35. “The Land of Decoration” — Grace McCleen  (May)
36. “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” — Greg McKeown  (May)
37. “The Professor of Poetry” — Grace McCleen  (May)
38. “Carnegie Hall With Tin Walls” — Fred Voss  (May)
39. “Milk and Honey” — Rupi Kaur  (June)
40. “The English Major” — Jim Harrison  (June)
41. “Devil in a Blue Dress” — Walter Mosley  (June)
42. “Welfare” — Steve Anwyll  (June)
43. “Hide and Seek” — Ian Rankin  (June)
44. “Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency” — Olivia Laing  (June)
45. “Brothers in Blood” — Amer Anwar  (June)
46. “Elements of Fiction” — Walter Mosley  (July)
47. “Fante Bukowski” — Noah Van Sciver  (July)
48. “A Fan’s Notes” — Fredrick Exley  (July)
49. “My Dark Vanessa” — Kate Elizabeth Russell  (July)
50. “Good Samaritans” — Will Carver  (July)
51. “The Polish Boxer” — Eduardo Halfon  (July)
52. “Those People” — Louise Candlish  (July)
53. “Black Sun” — Owen Matthews  (July)
54. “Girl” — Edna O’Brien  (July)
55. “Three Women” — Lisa Taddeo  (August)
56. “The Red Right Hand” — Joel Townsley Rogers  (August)
57. “August Is The Wicked Month” — Edna O’Brien  (August)
58. “The Long Goodbye” — Raymond Chandler  (August)
59. “In Praise of Shadows” — Jun'ichirō Tanizaki  (August)
60. “The Sweet Indifference of the World” — Peter Stamm  (August)
61. “Good Day?” — Vesna Main  (August)
62. “The Bluest Eye” — Toni Morrison  (August)
63. “Bank Robber Stories” — Jeffrey P. Frye  (August)
64. “Bird in a Cage” — Frédéric Dard  (August)
65. “Get Carter” — Ted Lewis  (August)
66. “Supporting Cast” — Kit De Waal  (September)
67. “Red Death” — Walter Mosley  (September)
68. “King Kong Theory” — Virginie Despentes  (September)
69. “A Long Way Off” — Pascal Garnier  (September)
70. “Plender” — Ted Lewis  (September)
71. “GBH” — Ted Lewis  (September)
72. “In the Absence of Men” — Philippe Besson  (September)
73. “The Appointment” — Katharina Volckmer  (September)
74. “Swan Song” — Nathan Evans  (October)
75. “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” — Ken Kesey  (October)
76. “The Gravediggers’ Bread” — Frédéric Dard  (October)
77. “The Wicked Go To Hell” — Frédéric Dard  (October)
78. “‘Nikolai Nikolaevich’ and ‘Camouflage’” — Yuz Aleshkovsky  (October)
79. “All About Sarah” — Pauline Delabroy-Allard  (October)
80. “Skint Estate” — Cash Carraway  (October)
81. “Winter” — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (October)
82. “Greenlights” — Matthew McConaughey  (November)
83. “Narcoleptic” — Steve Hussy  (November)
84. “97,196 Words: Essays” — Emmanuel Carrère  (November)
85. “Jesus’ Son” — Denis Johnson  (November)
86. “The All of It” — Jeannette Haien  (November)
87. “The Fall” — Albert Camus  (November)
88. “Beside The Sea” — Véronique Olmi  (November)
89. “The Patty Diphusa Stories and Other Writings” — Pedro Almodóvar  (November)
90. “Diving Into The Wreck” — Adrienne Rich  (November)
91. “Autumn” — Karl Ove Knausgaard  (December)
92. “Possession” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
93. “Berlin Tango” — Kevin McAleer  (December)
94. “The Song of Lunch” — Christopher Reid  (December) (again)
95. “A Frozen Woman” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
96. “Embers” — Sándor Márai  (December)
97. “Happening” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
98. “I Remain in Darkness” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
99. “Simple Passion” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
100. “A Woman’s Story” — Annie Ernaux  (December)
101. “The Queen’s Gambit” — Walter Tevis  (December)
102. “How We Live Now” — Bill Hayes  (December)​

Books in bold were particularly good.