2020 Book Log (Patreon)

A log of this year’s reading, both completed and unfinished reads. The list comes out to 57 books total, making 2020 my most productive year of reading ever.

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (James M. McPherson)

The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes)

Of Walking in Ice (Werner Herzog)

Love and War (Paul Cornell)

101 Things You Thought You Knew about the Titanic… But Didn’t! (Tim Matlin w/ Eloise Aston)

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture (Bruce Pascoe)

The Left-Handed Hummingbird (Kate Orman)

How to Publish Your Book (Jane Friedman)

War of the Flea: The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare (Robert Taber)

Vampire Science (Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman)

The Late, Great Planet Earth (Hal Lindsey)

Weapons Grade Snake Oil (Blair Bidmead)

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Laura Jane Grace w/ Dan Ozzi)

The Impossible Has Happened: The Life and Work of Gene Roddenberry (Lance Parkin)

The Shining (Stephen King)

Timewyrm: Genesys (John Peel)

God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer (Bart Ehrman)

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Patrick Radden Keefe)

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones)

Begin the Begin: R.E.M.’s Early Years (Robert Dean Lurie)

Dr. No (Ian Fleming)

Another Country (James Baldwin)

The Misunderstood Jew (Amy-Jill Levine)

Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer (Rowan Williams)

Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel (Thomas Keating)

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Peter Brown)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare, ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri)

The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (David Bentley Hart)

Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Jan Kott)

That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell & Universal Salvation (David Bentley Hart)

Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (Angela Y. Davis)

Pretty Hate Machine (Daphne Carr)

How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? (N. K. Jemisin)

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Jeff Chang)

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Stephen Jay Gould)

The Word for World Is Forest (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Tim Weiner)

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (Talia Lavin)

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Island (Patrick Radden Keefe)

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right (Michael Brooks)

The Western Lands (William S. Burroughs)

The Seven Storey Mountain (Thomas Merton)

From Russia With Love (Ian Fleming)

The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia (Laura Miller)

The Good Terrorist (Doris Lessing)

Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (Bruce Chilton)

Neuromancer (William Gibson)

The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)

The Fellowship of the Ring (J. R. R. Tolkien)

The Two Towers (J. R. R. Tolkien)

The Devil Finds Work (James Baldwin)

The Return of the King (J. R. R. Tolkien)

A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller)

Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)