##books I read in 2020 (that I can recall) * East of Eden - John Steinbeck # * Middlemarch - George Eliot # * Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (rr) * Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov # * The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - Brian Moore * Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloane * Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison # * Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard Von Bingen - Mary Sharratt * The Visiting Privilege - Joy Williams * Self Care - Leigh Stein * The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake - Breece D'J Pancake # * The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams * Frying Plantain - Zalika Reid-Benta * Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States - Gilda Daniels * The Reef - Edith Wharton * Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez * The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead * The Plague - Albert Camus * Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis # * The Secret History - Donna Tartt (rr) * The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom # * Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan * Emma - Jane Austen (rr) * Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney (rr) rr = reread