[Originally posted on Facebook]

Every January, I post short reviews of the books I read the previous year. Due to the craziness of the past year, I didn’t have the energy to actually write reviews, but here’s what I read in 2020:

★★★★★

• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez (tr. Gregory Rabassa)

★★★★½

• Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Idea – Eric Reese
• The Last Samurai – Helen DeWitt
• Exhalation: Stories – Ted Chiang
• Piranesi – Suzanna Clarke

★★★★

• The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein [thanks Mel]
• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America – Richard Rothstein
• Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
• Lame Fate / Ugly Swans – Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky (tr. Maya Vinokour)
• Monday Starts on Saturday – Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky (new tr. by Andrew Bromfield)
• October: The Story of the Russian Revolution – China Mieville

★★★½

• Trysting – Emmanuelle Pagano (tr. Jennifer Higgins and Sophie Lewis)

★★★

• The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered – Ada Louise Huxtable
• Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages – Gaston Dorren (tr. Alison Edwards)

★★½

• The Mathematician’s Shiva – Stuart Rojstaczer

★★

• Give them an Argument: Logic for the Left – Ben Burgis