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2020 Reads
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin ★
- Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin ★
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
- The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt ★
- The Makioka Sisters by Junichirō Tanizaki ★★
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- A New Program for Graphic Design by David Reinfurt
- Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekov
- The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
- Planets of Exile and Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
- City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin ★
- Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn ★
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ★
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ★★
- Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki ★★
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ★
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The White Road by Edmund de Waal ★
- Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles ★
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov ★★
- Gutenberg’s Apprentice by Alix Christie
- Persuasion by Jane Austen ★
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
- The Vanishing Velázquez by Laura Cumming
- About Looking by John Berger
- The Best American Food Writing 2019, Samin Nosrat, editor
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein
- Other Minds: The Octopus,The Sea,and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith ★
- Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy
- How to Cook Your Life: Dōgen’s Classic Instructions for the Zen Cook with Commentary by Kōshō Uchiyama Rōshi ★
- Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion ★
- Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin