So, by some miracle, for the first time since I started making book lists, I actually finished my target in 2020 (See the 2020 Book List page). So, this year, I’m going for a more aggressive target of 100 books. I think it can be done if I lay off the Netflix a bit. We’re still in lockdown, so it should be easier.
I’m going to start small and work my way up. To begin with, there are books I got for Christmas and books I got just before the New Year, so we’ll start there. A couple of books are sequels of books I read so long ago, I need to re-read the preceding books. Example: “The Handmaid’s Tale” before I can get to “The Testaments”.
As usual, BOLD = Finished
1. Joe Biden; American Dreamer – Evan Osnos
2. A Promised Land – Barack Obama
3. The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
4. If It Bleeds – Stephen King
5. The Water Knife – Paolo Bacigalupi
6. Blood Orange – Harriet Tyce
7. Bad Me Good Me – Ali Land
8. Slow Violence. – Rob Nixon
9. On the Future – Martin Rees
10. Nightfall – Isaac Asimov
11. The Passage – Justin Cronin
12. The Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov
13. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
14. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
15. Cheri – Colette
16. Giovanni’ a Room – James Baldwin
17. The Situation and the Story – Vivian Gornick
18. The Things We Lost in the Fire – Mariana Enriquez
19. The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
20. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
21. Carmilla – J. Sheridan Le Fanu
22. The Exorcist – William Peter Blatty
23. The Last Thing to Burn – Will Dean
24. The Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
25. Daisy Jones and the Six
26. Cosmology of Monsters
27. Wakenhurst – Michelle Paver
28. The Vampire Hunter’s Guide – Steve White
29. The Other Wife – Clare McGowan
30. Between the World and Me – Ta-Hahisi Coates
31. Pump Six and other stories – Paolo Bacigalupi
32. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
33. The Fifth Child – Doris Lessing
34. The List – Carys Jones
36. Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
38. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
37. A Witch in Time – Constance Sayers
39. Artemis – Andy Weir
40. Luster – Ravel Lailani
41. The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
42. The Duke and I – Julia Quinn
43. Bright Lights Big City – Jay McInerney
44. The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
45. The Colorado Kid – Stephen King
46. Sin – Josephine Hart
47. Fight Club – Chuck Phalaniuk
48. Stags – MA Bennet
49. The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
50. Daddy Issues – Katherine Angel
51. Normal People – Sally Rooney
52. Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
53. Animal Farm – George Orwell
54. The Last one At the Party – Bethany Clift
55. Dolly – Susan Hill
56. The Sunday Philosophy Club – Alexander McCall Smith
57. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
58. The Handmade’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
59. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
60. On Dreams – Sigmund Freud
61. This is the Place to Be – Lara Pawson
63. We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
62. Fierce Attachments – Vivian Gornick
65. Beasts – Joyce Carole Oats
64. The Rearranged Life of Ona Lockhart – Margarita Montimore
66. If Cats Disappeared from the World – Genki Kawamura
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