What books are you reading, 2020 (Part II)

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout

A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

loads more when I trash my dead-battery Kindle Paperwhite and replace it with a Kobo.

I just finished Devil in a Blue dress by Walter Mosley. i enjoyed and would like to read more Easy Rawlins books, but the sequels on Kindle are expensive, and all bookstores near me are closed.

Swimming in the Dark - brilliant new novel about 2 young gay guys under Communism in Poland in the early 80s.

Funeral Games - the last in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great trilogy

Please keep this thread up now--the first one has been in use for months, and I'm so sick of seeing that gif in the OP of it.

I'm reading Flaubert's "Sentimental Education." I tried it when I was younger but I did not understand all the references to French historical events at the middle of the 19th century, but now I have them pretty much sorted out and it's now very fascinating to read.

THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

Empty Mansions by Paul Clark Newell Jr

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? by Ramani Durvasula

The Quotable Feynman and Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!

A Working Stiff's Manifesto by Iain Levison

All excellent reading.

Has anyone read Normal People by Sally Rooney?

They made a TV series of it dropping on Hulu tomorrow, not sure if it is worth reading the book beforehand.

R7, yes, it’s terrific.

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton. I'm a third of the way in and things are getting interesting!

Spillover:Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Very interesting read and it accurately predicted this pandemic.

I just finished My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell. It's about a woman who was groomed and abused by her teacher when she was a young teenager, something she saw as "love."

I've been reading Donna Leon's Inspector Brunetti mysteries. I did not know that they would be so much about eating Italian food! Every book describes several meals (some fancy, some simple) in some detail.

Also read Mary Trump's book about her family. I was suprised how well written it was and how absorbing it was--it is such a nightmarish family. DJT's parents were real pieces of work

[quote]The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton.

R9 I love Wharton but haven't read this one. The House of Mirth if one of my fave novels evah.

[quote]I just finished Devil in a Blue dress by Walter Mosley. i enjoyed and would like to read more Easy Rawlins books, but the sequels on Kindle are expensive, and all bookstores near me are closed.

Join your local library. That's how I read 99% of my kindle books, and I read detective series, too. It would be too expensive otherwise.

My local library is closed during the pandemic.

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. He was such a great writer.

r16 Where do you live? Maybe you could get online access to one in a larger city.

R18, and even closed libraries should offer online access.

[italic]Sleeping Murder[/italic] by Agatha Christie,

[italic]Feel Better Fast and Make it Last[/italic] by Daniel G. Amen,

[italic]Secret Lives[/italic] by E.F. Benson,

and [italic]Cosmicomics[/italic] by Italo Calvino