2020: Books Read

Non-Fiction

Media and Technology

  • Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie - Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
  • Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway - Merchants of Doubt
  • Anne Nelson - Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right

General Non-Fiction

  • Shelby Lorman - Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom (Probably one for 'Humour' but...)
  • Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy†

Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies

  • Joan Didion - Blue Nights
  • Lauren Graham - Talking As Fast As I Can†
  • Patti Smith - M Train
  • Silvana Paternostro - Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with the Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls*
  • Cathy Park Hong - Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition

Fiction

  • Elizabeth Strout - Olive, Again
  • Yoko Ogawa - The Housekeeper and the Professor
  • Han Kang - The Vegetarian
  • Yukio Mushima - Life for Sale
  • Ben Lerner - The Topeka School

Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas

  • Stefan Zweig - Confusion
  • Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion†

Children's Books, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

  • Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, 2) (re-read)†
  • Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, 3) (re-read)†
  • Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, 1)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Point Blanc (Alex Rider, 2)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Skeleton Key (Alex Rider, 3)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Eagle Strike (Alex Rider, 4)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Scorpia (Alex Rider, 5)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Ark Angel (Alex Rider, 6)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Snakehead (Alex Rider, 7)
  • Anthony Horowitz - Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider, 8)
  • Susanna Clarke - Piranesi†

* currently reading
audio book