I am just going to copy and paste the post I made in 202, and add it to this blog a year late just so it’s there. As of 2022, I will start releasing these in order ha.
Still inspired by my dear friend Leo McDonagh I have compiled this years list of books I have read.
Like last year, I have only included books I completed, not ones I started and didn’t finish. Also I have only included academic literature I read from cover to cover, not articles/literature for my diss where I only read a chapter etc.
KEY
* If I read the book multiple times in 2020
** If I have read the book before and then reread in 2020 (this year was full of rereads tbh, it’s been a rough year for us all)
***MY BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
If you want to know which books I highly recommend (and the ones I don’t recommend ha there’s literally only one I hated but I didn’t wanna name and shame on this post) please DROP ME A MESSAGE ❤
Without further ado, my 2020 Reading List is as follows:
The White Book, Han Kang
Raven’s Gate, Anthony Horowitz **
Evil Star, Anthony Horowitz **
Night Rise, Anthony Horowitz **
Necropolis, Anthony Horowitz **
Oblivion, Anthony Horowitz
The Early History of Esperanto in the UK, Bill Chapman
The Art of Language Invention, David Peterson
Toki Pona: the language of good, Sonja Lang *
The Conlanger’s Lexipedia, Mark Rosenfelder
Advanced Language Construction, Mark Rosenfelder
Languages of the World, Asya Perelsvaig
Star in a Night Sky: An anthology of Esperanto Literature, Various
The Articulate Mammal, Jean Aitchison **
Classic Irish Short Stories, Various
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams **
Heroes, Stephen Fry **
The Boy From the Woods, Harlan Coben
Six Four, Hideo Yokohama **
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata **
Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata **
The little pocket book of mindfulness, Anna Black * / **
Gil Woman Other, Bernardine Evaristo ***
The Body, Hanif Kureishi
Why I’m No Longer talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge **
A Secret Vice, J. R. R. Tolkien *
In the Land of Invented Languages, Arika Okrent *
Animal Farm, George Orwell **
Thebans, Liz Lochhead **
Language Death, David Crystal
Esperanto; Language, Literature and Community, Pierre Janton
The Search for the Perfect Language, Umberto Eco
Zamenhof: The creator of Esperanto, Marjourie Boulton
Where the Crawdad’s Sing, Delia Owens
Lunatic Lovers of Language, Various
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse *** / *
Oceanic, Aimee Nezhukumatathi
Warraparna Kaurna!, Rob Amery
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee ***
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
The three body problem, Cixin Liu **
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
Adventures of a Young Naturalist, David Attenborough
The Possession of Mr Cave, Matt Haig
A life of Adventure and Delight, Akhil Sharma
The Man who Couldn’t Stop, David Ad