Likely the briefest list of new books read each year since I started the practice (and exactly half of what I read last year!), but it’s difficult when you move to a new city with a dearth of bookshops.
Appallingly short though it is, it still manages to capture this year’s frame of mind quite well. And while that isn’t an altogether positive takeaway (was I really that grim and melancholy and why was I fixated on themes of colonialism?) it also carries memories of bookstore visits, falling asleep on the beach, thoughtful discussions, and a search for Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea stories that began on a whim in New York’s Chelsea Market and finally ended in a little corner of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.
2020, I will do better.
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The Lion, The Unicorn and Me, Jeanette Winterson
Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Holes, Louis Sachar
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Burmese Days, George Orwell
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
The Bedlam Stacks, Natasha Pulley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
The Cockroach, Ian McEwan
The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
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