Books in 2020
Jan. 6th, 2021 04:17 pmI haven't done this since 2011, but why not?
This probably isn't all of them, but all the ones I remembered to log:
Fiction:
Douglas Copeland, Microserfs (Review)
Lucia Berlin, A Manual For Cleaning Women (Review)
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Review)
Mark Lindquist, Never Mind Nirvana (Review)
Liu Cixin, The Dark Forrest
Liu Cixin, Death's End (Review)
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean (Review)
Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Strategem (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Glass Canon and Other Stories
Neal Stephenson, Anathem (no review, but I did steal from it for this fic)
Tamsyn Muir, Giddeon the Ninth (Review)
Nonfiction:
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Review)
Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection (Review)
Daiyun Yue, To The Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman
Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (Review)
David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
Isiah Lavender III (Editor), Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Robert Roberts, A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum (Review)
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (Review)
Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Masha Gessen, Surving Autocracy (Review)
Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Plus two books about Frederick The Great for yuletide: this one and this one (mainly just the first volume).
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I posted on tumblr about the fic I wrote this year. My official ao3 wordcount (though it's not accurate) was over 100k, far and away the most words I've ever written in a year. File under: things you can do when you don't leave your house.
This probably isn't all of them, but all the ones I remembered to log:
Fiction:
Douglas Copeland, Microserfs (Review)
Lucia Berlin, A Manual For Cleaning Women (Review)
Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Review)
Mark Lindquist, Never Mind Nirvana (Review)
Liu Cixin, The Dark Forrest
Liu Cixin, Death's End (Review)
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean (Review)
Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings
Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Strategem (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (Review)
Yoon Ha Lee, Glass Canon and Other Stories
Neal Stephenson, Anathem (no review, but I did steal from it for this fic)
Tamsyn Muir, Giddeon the Ninth (Review)
Nonfiction:
Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Review)
Jacob Silverman, Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection (Review)
Daiyun Yue, To The Storm: The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman
Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (Review)
David Harvey, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
Isiah Lavender III (Editor), Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Robert Roberts, A Ragged Schooling: Growing Up in the Classic Slum (Review)
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (Review)
Jacob S. Hacker & Paul Pierson, Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Masha Gessen, Surving Autocracy (Review)
Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Plus two books about Frederick The Great for yuletide: this one and this one (mainly just the first volume).
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I posted on tumblr about the fic I wrote this year. My official ao3 wordcount (though it's not accurate) was over 100k, far and away the most words I've ever written in a year. File under: things you can do when you don't leave your house.
