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READING 2022
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
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January
1 Susan Ford Wilshire 1 Penelope Returning
AMERICAN 21st 1 POETRY 1
2 Neal Stephenson 14 Termination Shock AMERICAN 21st 2 NOVEL 1
3 Lee Woodman 4 Artscapes
AMERICAN 21st 3 POETRY 2
4 Neal Stephenson 15 Some Remarks AMERICAN 21st 4 ESSAYS
1
5 Roy J. Howard 1 Three Faces of Hermeneutics AMERICAN 20th 1
PHILOSOPHY 1
6 Madame de Stael 1 Corinne ou l'Italie (en
francais) FRENCH 19th 1 NOVEL 2
February
7
Richard Russo 1 ****Empire Falls AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 3
8
Libby Waterford 2 Can't Make
You Love Me AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 4
9
David Deutsch 1 The Fabric of Reality AMERICAN 20th 2 SCIENCE
1
10
Orson Scott Card 13 The Last Shadow AMERICAN 21st 7 NOVEL 5
11
Libby Waterford 3 Can't Fight This Felling AMERICAN 21st 8
NOVEL 6
12
Libby Waterford 4 Can't Hurry Love AMERICAN 21st 9 NOVEL 7
13
Orson Scott Card 14 ***Xenocide
AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 8
14
Orson Scott Card 15 **Duplex AMERICAN 21st 10 NOVEL 9
March
15
Orson Scott Card 16 Children of the Mind AMERICAN 21st 11
NOVEL 10
16
Flavius Josephus 2 Revolt in Judea: The Road to Masada
(abridgement of Wars of the Jews) ROMAN 1st 1 HISTORY 1
17
Bill Henderson (editor) 2 Pushcart Prize XLV (2021) AMERICAN
21st 11 SHORT STORIES 1
18 Gershom Scholem (editor) 1 Zohar: The eBook of Splendor HEBREW 12th 1 RELIGION 1
April
19 Louse Johnson 1 The Story of Australia AUSTRALIAN 21st 1 HISTORY 2
May
20 Richard Flannagan 1 Gould's Book of Fish AUSTRALIAN 21st 2 NOVEL 11
21 Jean Rhys 1 Wide Sargasso Sea BRITISH 20th 1 NOVEL 12
22 Gabi Coatsworth 1 Jove's Journey Home, a Memoir BRITISH 21st 1 AUTOBIO 1
23
David Deutsch 2 ***** The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations
That Transform the World AMERICAN 21st 12 SCIENCE 2
24 Patrick White 2 ***Voss AUSTRALIAN 20th 1 NOVEL 13
25 Patrick White 3 ***A Fringe of Leaves AUSTRALIAN 20th 2
NOVEL 14
26 Ceridwen Dove 1 **In the Garden of
the Fugitives AUSTRALIAN 21st 2 NOVEL 15
30 f. Krindach Russiy Kavalerist [in Russian] RUSSIAN 20th 2
HISTOrY 2
32 Orson Scott Card 16 Wakers AMERICAN 21st 12 NOVEL 17
33 Olga Tokarczuk 1 Flights POLISH 21st 1 NOVEL 18
35 Olga Tokarczuk 2 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
POLISH 21st 2 NOVEL 19
July
37 Gabrielle Zevin 1 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
AMERICAN 21st 13 NOVEL 20
39 Gabrielle Zevin 2 Young Jane Young AMERICAN 21st 15 NOVEL
21
40 Gabrielle Zevin 3 The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry AMERICAN
21st 15 NOVEL 22
41 Edgar Allan Poe 3 Tamerlane AMERICAN 19th 1 POETRY 4
42 Gabrielle Zevin 4 Elsewhere AMERICAN 21st 17 NOVEL 23
43 Bette Bono 3 Neighbors and Other Stories AMERICAN 21st 18
STORIES 1
44 Rachel Joyce 3 The Music Shop BRITISH 21st 1 NOVEL 24
August
45 Rachel Joyce 4 Miss Benson's Beetle BRITISH 21st 2 NOVEL 25
46 David Perlmutter 1 Honey and Salt CANADA 21st 1 NOVEL 26
47 Alice Munro 1 Who Do You Think You Are? CANADA 20th 1 NOVEL
27
48 Alice Munro 2 Lives of Girls and Women CANADA 21st 2 NOVEL
28
49 Alice Munro 3 Runaway CANADA 21st 3 STORIES 1
51Muriel Barbery 4 A Single Rose FRENCH 21st 1 NOVEL 30
52 Muriel Barbery 5 The Writer's Cats FRENCH 21st 2 NOVEL 31
53 Alice Munro 4 The Love of a Good Woman CANADA 20th 2 NOVEL
32
54 W. C. Sellar 1 1066 and All That BRITISH 20th 1 HUMOR 1
September
55 Alice Munro 5 Dance of the Happy Shades CANADA 20th 3 NOVEL
33
57 Kate Atkinson 4 One Good Turn BRITISH 21st 3 NOVEL 34
59 Kate Atkinson 6 When Will There Be Good News? BRITISH 21st
5 NOVEL 36
60 Jules Verne 4 Les Indes Noires [en francais] FRENCH 19th 1
NOVEL 37
61 Kate Atkinson 7 Started Early, Took My Dog BRITISH
21st 6 NOVEL 38
62 Kate Atkinson 8 Big Sky BRITISH 21st 7 NOVEL 39
October
64 Michel Houellebecq 2 Serotonine [en francais] FRENCH 21st 1
NOVEL 41
65 Kate Atkinson 9 Emotionally Weird BRITISH 21st 8 NOVEL 42
66 Euripides 112 The Cyclops [saw the play in Cambridge, UK]
GREEK BC 1 PLAY 1
67 Gary Owen 1 Iphigenia in Splott [saw the play in London]
BRITISH 21st 9 PLAY 2
November
68 Elizabeth Strout 1 Lucy by the Sea AMERICAN 21st 19 NOVEL
43
70 Christa Wolf 1 Cassandra: a Novel GERMAN 20th 1 NOVEL 51
72 Eurpidies Andromache [third time] GREEK BC 1
PLAY 3
73 Euripidies Trojan Women [second time] GREEK BC 2 PLAY
4
75 Henrik Ibsen 5 John Gabriel Borkman [saw the play in
London] NORWEGIAN 19th 1 PLAY 6
79 Yann Martel Life of Pi [saw the play in London]
CANADA 21st 5 PLAY 8
80 David Farr 1 Dead Body in Taos [saw the play in
London] BRITISH 21st 11 PLAY 9
82 Josiah Ober 1 The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
AMERICAN 21st 22 HISTORY 5
December
83 Heliodorus 1 An Ethiopian Romance GREEK 2nd 1 NOVEL 46
84 Euripides 11 Hecuba GREEK BC 1 PLAY 11
86 Jane Smiley 13 A Dangerous Business AMERICAN 21st 22
NOVEL 48
87 Claire Heywood 1 Daughters of Sparta AMERICAN 21st 23 NOVEL
49
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