Attached is a list of the books I read so far
in 2020. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of
a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and
century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete
list of my reading since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
Richard
Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com January 1
Christoopher Paolini 3 ***To Sleep in a Sea of Stars AMERICAN 21st
1 NOVEL 1
2 Tom Stoppard The Real Thing [second time]
AMERICAN 20th 1 PLAY 1
3 Betsy Woodman 2 Love Potion Number 10 AMERICAN 21st 1 NOVEL 2
4 Betsy Woodman 3 Emeralds Included AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 3
5. Elizabeth Chatsworth 2 The Brass Queen AMERICAN 21st 3 NOVEL 4
6 R. C. Zaehner 1 Hinduism BRITISH 20th 1 RELIGION 1
7 Nancy Felson 1 Regarding Penelope AMERICAN 20th 1 CRITICISM 1
February
8 William Buck (editor/translator) 1 Ramayana INDIA BC 1 EPIC 1
9 Margaret Atwood 4 ***The Penelopiad CANADIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 5
10 A. L. Basham 1 The Origins and Development of Classical
Hinduism BRITISH 20th 2 RELIGION 2
11 Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler [second
time] ITALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 6
12 Janet Skeslien Charles **The Paris Library AMERICAN 21st 4
NOVEL 7
March
13 Kazuo Ishiguro *****Klara and the Sun BRITISH 21st 1
NOVEL 8
14 Hesiod [third time] Theogony GREEK BC 1
POEM 1
15 Jo Walton 1 The Just City (Thessaly) CANADIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 9
16 Jo Walton 2 The Philosoopher Kings (Thessaly) CANADIAN
20th 2 NOVEL 10
April
17 Jo Walton 3 Necessity (Thessaly) CANADIAN 20th 3 NOVEL 11
18 Plato Ion [second time] GREEK BC 2 PHILOSOPHY 1
19 Plato Phaedo [third time] GREEK BC 3 PHILOSOPHY 2
20 Plato Phaedrus [second time] GREEK BC 4 PHILOSOPHY 3
May
21 Arthur Phillips 1 The Tragedy of ARTHUR AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL
12
22 Michel Houellebecq Soumission [en francais] FRENCH 21st 1
NOVEL 13
23 Saul Kripke 1 Naming and Necessity AMERICAN 20th 2 PHILOSOPHY 4
24 Jo Walton 4 **Among Others CANADIAN 21st 1 NOVEL 14
24 Jo Walton 5 ***Lifelode CANADIAN 21st 2 NOVEL 15
June
25 Ursula Le Guin 16 translatioin/adaptation of Lao Tzu Tao te
Ching AMERICAN 20th POETRY 1
26 Carlo Rovelli 2 **** Helgoland ITALIAN 21st 2 SCIENCE 1
27 Brian Greene 4 ***Until the End of Time AMERICAN 21st 6 SCIENCE
2
28 Lee Woodman 3 Lifescapes AMRICAN 21st POETRY 2
29 W. G. Sebald 2 ****Austerlitz GERMAN 21st 1 NOVEL 16
30 J. M. Coetzee 2 Life and Times of Michael K. SOUTH AFRICAN 20th
1 NOVEL 17
31 George Eliot 5 ***Romola BRITISH 19th 1 NOVEL 18
32 Carlo Rovelli 3 Reality Is Not What It Seems ITALIAN 21st 2
SCIENCE 3
Cynthia Ozick ***"The Coast of Newe Zealand" New Yorker Jun 21,
2021
33 Cynthia Ozick 3 ***The Messiah of Stockholm AMERICAN 20th 3
NOVEL 19
34 Cynthia Ozick 4 Levitation AMERICAN 20th 4 SHORT STORIES 1
35 Frank Wilczek 1 Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality AMERICAN 21st
7 SCIENCE 4
July
36 Bruno Schultz 1 The Street of Crocodiles [second time]]
POLISH 20th 1 STORIES 2
37 Granta Issue #154 BRITISH 21st 1 MAGAZINES 1
38 Kyle Harper 1 ***The Fate of Rome AMERICAN 21st 8 HISTORY 1
39 Samuel Butler 2 The Authoress of the Odyssey BRITISH 19th 2
ESSAY 1
August
40 Homer (trans. Fagles) The Odyssey [second time] GREEK BC 1
NOVEL 20 41
Homer 4 Homeric Hymns [second time] GREEK BC 2 POETRY 2
42 Catherine Hanley ***Matilda: Empres, Queen, Warrior BRITISH
21st 2 BIOGRAPHY 1
43 Jo Walton 6 Or What You Will CANADIAN 21st 3 NOVEL 21
44 Bruno Schultz 2 Sanatorium, Under the Sign of the Hourglass
POLISH 20th 2 STORIES 3
45 Samuel Beckett Molloy [second time] IRISH 20th 1 NOVEL 22
September
46 Granta Issue #153 Second Nature BRITISH 21st 2 MAGAZINES 2
47 S. A. Kapadia 1 The Teachings of Zoroaster BRITISH 20th 1
RELIGION 3
49 G. Willow Wilson 1 The Bird King AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 23
50 Stefan Zweig 2 The World of Yesterday AUSTRIAN 20th 1 BIOGRAPHY
2
51 Frans de Waal 1 Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals
Are? AMERICAN 21st 10 SCIENCE 5
52 Marion Meade 1 Eleanor of Aquitaine AMERICAN 21st 10 BIOGRAPHY
3
53 Robert Alter 1 Genesis AMERICAN 20th 5 CRITICISM 2
54 Romain Rolland 1 L'Aube [en francais] FRENCH 20th 1 NOVEL 24
October 55
Granta Issue #156 Interiors BRITISH 21st 2 MAGAZINES 23
56 Richard Powers 13 **** Bewilderment American 21st 11 NOVEL 25
57 Anthony Doerr 2 **** Cloud Cuckoo Land AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL
26
November
58 Ruth Ozeki 2 ***The Book of Form and Emptiness AMERICAN 21st 13
NOVEL 27
59 Pat Barker 2 The Women of Troy BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 28
60 Bette Bono 2 Fear Itself AMERICAN 21st 14 NOVEL 29
December
61 Jacob Appel 1 Courophobia & Fata Morgana AMERICAN 21st 15
STORIES 4
62 William Burton McCormick 1 and John Christmas 1 ***KGB Banker
AMERICAN 21st 16 NOVEL 30
63 Samuel Sandmel 1 The Genius of Paul: a Study in History
AMERICAN 20th 1 RELIGION 4
64 Gay Walley 2 To Any Lengths AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 31
65 Tom Dykstra 3 Mark, Canonizer of Paul AMERICAN 21st 18 RELIGION
5
66 Flavius Josephus Life of Flavius Josephus HEBREW 1st 1
BIOGRAPHY 4
67
Gay Walley 3 Prison Sex AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 32
68 Eusebius 1 The History of the Church [second time] GREEK 4th 1
RELIGION 6
69 Andy Weir 1 Project Hail Mary AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL 33
70 Stefan Zweig Schachnovelle [auf deitscj] [second
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