Books I read in 2020
For a slightly incomplete but annotated version of this, see my Twitter thread.
Rings of Saturn, W.G Sebald
The Cello Suites, Eric Siblin
Handel In London, Jane Glover,
Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, Gitta Sereny,
The Shortest History of Europe
The Saturday Caller, Georges Simenon
The Sleepwalkers, Arthur Koestler
Science and Government, C.P. Snow
One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, Gerald Early
Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace and Bryan Garner Talk Language and Writing
Believe In People: The Essential Karel Čapek.
The Driver’s Seat, Muriel Spark
Isaac Newton, James Gleick
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
Lady Sings The Blues, Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth, John Szwed
For Esmé, With Love and Squalor, J.D. Salinger
Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Evolution of Everything, Matt Ridley
A King Condemned: The Trial and Execution of Charles I, C.V. Wedgwood
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings.
Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes.
The Undoing Project Michael Lewis
The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth Century Paris, Colin Jones.
The Fire of Joy, Clive James
The State of Disbelief, Juliet Rosenfeld
The Lion and the Unicorn, Richard Aldous
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carré.