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The books I read, 2021 edition
One of the nice, slightly creepy, features of my Apple Books app is that it keeps track of everything I read. Which means that at the end of the year I can look back and reflect on my reading activity for the previous twelve months, perhaps learning something new about myself in the process.
Last year I read 19 books, which break down into 12 novels and 7 non-fiction, and right there is an interesting observation. Most people peg me for someone who either doesn’t read fiction at all or for whom fiction is secondary to readings concerned with science and philosophy. Well, folks, there goes the empirical evidence to contradict you!
Let’s start with the novels, then (in alphabetical order by author):
La Signora del Martedi` (no English translation), by Massimo Carlotto
La Verita` dell’Alligatore (The Master of Knots), by Massimo Carlotto
The John Cheever Audio Collection, by John Cheever
Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
Qualityland, by Marc-Uwe Kling
Nemesis, by Philip Roth
Wrath of the Furies, by Steven Saylor
M (English translation to be released in April ‘22), by Antonio Scurati
Creation, by Gore Vidal
Julian, by Gore Vidal
