During 2020’s Covid shutdowns, lockdowns, and harrowing politics, reading was my magic carpet ride. Here are most of the books I read. They transported me.
BOOKS read and recommended:
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Sapiens by Juval Noah Harari
Biloxi by Mary Miller
In West Mills by De’Shawn Charles Winslow
The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz
The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Miss Aluminum by Susanna Moore
The Magnetic Girl by Jessica Handler
The Accidentals by Minrose Gwen
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
Stars of Alabama by Sean Dietrich
Forgiveness Road by Mandy Mikulencak
Girl by Edna O’Brien
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Sundown Motel by Simone St. James
The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
The Lying Lives of Adults by Elana Ferrante
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Weather by Jenny Offill
Making Comics by Lynda Barry
Whereabouts by Scott Gould
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport