My top fifty books since 2020

Though I could recommend each of these books at great length, I have refrained from doing so here.

They are listed below in a random order.

  1. The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, by Robert Pinsky
  2. No Longer Human, by Osamu Dasai
  3. The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge
  4. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, by Erving Goffman
  5. A Life of Montaigne, by Sarah Bakewell
  6. Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  7. Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart
  8. How to Hide an Empire, by Daniel Immerwahr
  9. Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury
  10. Thinking in Pictures, by Temple Grandin
  11. Writing to Learn, by William Zinsser
  12. A Poet’s Craft, by Annie Finch
  13. The American Language; An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, by H.L. Mencken
  14. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
  15. The Harvest of Sorrow, by Robert Conquest
  16. The Blood of the Lamb, by Peter de Vries
  17. How to Make Friends with Demons, by Graham Joyce
  18. The White Album, by Joan Didion
  19. Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
  20. The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James
  21. The Secret To Superhuman Strength, by Alison Bechdel
  22. The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
  23. An Unquiet Mind, by Kaye Redfield Jamison
  24. Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
  25. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
  26. Gods of Jade and Shadow, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  27. Touched with Fire, by Kay Redfield Jamison
  28. Notes On Grief, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  29. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, by Joanne Meyerowitz
  30. Adventure Time: The Art of Oo, by Chris McDonnell
  31. Reading Picture Books with Children, by Megan Dowd Lambert
  32. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
  33. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
  34. In Praise of Shadows, by Junichiro Tanizaki
  35. Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
  36. Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
  37. About Looking, by John Berger
  38. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
  39. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
  40. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
  41. Bird by Bird, by Annie Lamott
  42. A Night in the Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny
  43. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
  44. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
  45. A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
  46. Bea Wolf, by Zach Weinersmith and Boulet
  47. Crying in H-Mart, by Michelle Zauner
  48. The Islanders, by Christopher Priest
  49. The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, by Ned Sublette
  50. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
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