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Six months of reading (arranged in order of date completed):

January:

01-05 Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

01-09 Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm

01-17 Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

01-21 Mickey Hart with Jay Stevens, Drumming at the Edge of Magic: A Journey into the Spirit of Percussion

01-24 Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times

01-27 Aravind Adiga, Amnesty

February:

02-01 Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2nd Ed)

02-06 John le Carré [David John Moore Cornwell], The Little Drummer Girl

02-08 Mickey Hart and Fredric Lieberman, Planet Drum: A Celebration of Percussion and Rhythm

02-10 Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence

02-16 Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

02-20 Heather McHugh, Muddy Matterhorn

02-22 John Connolly, Every Dead Thing

02-24 Algernon Charles Swinburne, Love's Cross-Currents: A Year's Letters

02-25 Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

March:

03-01 Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets

03-04 Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

03-12 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

03-19 Sasha Geffen, Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

03-22 John Connolly, The Dirty South

03-25 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed

03-29 Remy Boydell [art] and Michelle Perez [words], The Pervert

03-30 Willa Cather, My Ántonia

April:

04-03 Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland

04-06 S. A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

04-08 Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

04-16 Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

04-24 Willa Cather, One of Ours

04-26 Paisley Rekdal, Appropriate: A Provocation

May:

05-05 Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: A Novel

05-08 Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

05-12 Stephen King, The Institute

05-18 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

05-22 Elizabeth Siddall, My Ladys Soul: The Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall

June:

06-08 Ann Patchett, Taft

06-11 Jessica Barry [Melissa Pimentel], Don't Turn Around

06-14 Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel

06-21 Carole Johnstone, Mirrorland

06-24 Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?

06-28 Karen Kondazian, The Whip

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What I Read in 2020:

Richard Adams, Watership Down

Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter

Julian Barnes, The Only Story

Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down and Up Above the World

Michael Connelly, The Night Fire

John Connolly, A Book of Bones

Tana French, In the Woods and The Likeness

Masha Gessen, Surviving Autocracy

William Gibson, Agency

Joe Hill, Nos4A2

Nick Hornby, Just Like You

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

Stephen King, Bag of Bones and It

Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

Julie Maroh, Blue Is the Warmest Color

Jason Matthews, Red Sparrow

Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

Ian Rankin, In a House of Lies

Meredith Russo, Birthday

Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

John Sandford, Masked Prey

Dorothy Strachey, Olivia

Graham Swift, Here We Are

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Emily Temple, The Lightness

Nell Zink, Doxology

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Patchouli Secrets at the beach.

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Sometimes the world is easier to face if you have blue hair.

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lavender days, patchouli nights: these are a few of my secret delights.