A Little Reading

On March 1st, with the first quarantine of this terrible year looming, I got back in the habit of reading every day. I managed to read thirty works since then, some short, some lengthy. I read slowly - by design. I wrote about many of them on this blog throughout the year. Here is my reading list. 

March

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

Coming Up for Air by George Orwell

The Years by Virginia Woolf

April

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

“The Dead” by James Joyce

May

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

June

The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells

A Death in the Family by James Agee

July

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

August

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

September

11/22/63 by Stephen King

October

Bullet Park by John Cheever

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse

November

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carré

“For Esmé—with Love and Squalor” by J. D. Salinger

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

December

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Orlando by Virginia Woolf