Book List for 2020
This is my terrible drawing of a benevolent nun.
The Wind That Lays Waste, by Selva Almada
Grant, by Ron Chernow
Baltimore Blues, by Laura Lippman
Once Upon A River, by Diane Setterfield
The Quintland Sisters, by Shelley Wood
Maigret and the Old People, by Georges Simenon
Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carre
Maigret and the Headless Corpse, by Georges Simenon
A Sea Dog’s Tale, by Peter Muilenberg
A Noel Killing, by M.L. Longworth
Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino
The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan
The Devil That Danced on the Water, by Aminatta Forna
He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and
the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories,
by Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather
Cactus League, by Emily Nemens
The Balkans, by Misha Glenny
Murder in the Crooked House, by Soji Shimada
The Woman Who Married a Bear, by John Straley
The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel
The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Three Years in a Walmart Parking Lot, by Sharon Waters
The British in India: A Social History of the Raj, by David Gilmour
Trace Elements, by Donna Leon
The Rediscovery of North America, by Barry Lopez
Peregrine, by J.A. Baker
The Removes, by Tatjana Soli
Liberty Bar, by Georges Simenon
Killing Mister Watson, by Peter Matthieson
Charm City, by Laura Lippman
Lock No. 1, by Georges Simenon
Oneida, by Ellen Wayland-Smith
Tell Them of Battles, Kings & Elephants, by Mathias Enard
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, by Gregor von Rezzori
Maigret’s Anger, by Georges Simenon
Butcher’s Hill, by Laura Lippman
Crazy Salad, by Nora Ephron
The Division Bell Mystery, by Ellen Wilkinson
On Directing, by Harold Clurman
After the Fall, by Arthur Miller
Scribble Scribble, by Nora Ephron
Maigret in Vichy, by Georges Simenon
Born A Crime, by Trevor Noah
Maigret Defends Himself, by Georges Simenon
If the Ice Had Held, by Wendy Fox
The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna
Maigret Enjoys Himself, by Georges Simenon
The World According to Fannie Davis, by Bridgett Davis
In Big Trouble, Laura Lippman
At the Center of All Beauty, by Fenton Johnson
The Big Book of Women Saints, by Sarah Gallick
Maigret in Court, by Georges Simenon
The Hard Problem, by Tom Stoppard
Status Anxiety, by Alain de Botton
Collision Course, by Robert Silverberg
The Last Negroes at Harvard, by Jeanna Ellsworth and Kent Garrett
Murder in Chianti, by Camilla Trinchieri
The Dragons The Giant The Women, by Wayetu Moore
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
How to Walk, by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Stranger, by Albert Camus
Beautifully Broken, by Paige and Josh Wetzel
Murder at the Boat Club, by Lee Strauss
The Late Monsieur Gallet, by Georges Simenon
The Hopefuls, by Jennifer Close
Heartburn, by Nora Ephron
Mere Christianity, by CS Lewis
The Wild Inside, by Catherine Carbo
The Sugar House, by Laura Lippman
Echo Cycle, by Patrick Edwards
Maigret and the Informer, by Georges Simenon
Late in the Day, by Tessa Hadley
Fatale, by Jean-Patrick Manchette
The Winter Garden Mystery, by Carola Dunn
Why the Dutch are Different, by Ben Coates
The Expendable Man, by Dorothy B. Hughes
To Each His Own, by Leonard Sciascia
The Searcher, by Tana French
Death at Wentwater Court, by Carola Dunn
Requiem for a Mezzo, by Carola Dunn
Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household
W(TF), by Samantha Allen
The Day of the Owl, by Leonard Sciascia
Murder on the Flying Scotsman, by Carola Dunn
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Maigret and the Wine Merchant, by Georges Simenon
Classic Crimes, by William Roughead
Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
Gender Rebels, by Anneka Harry
Damsel in Distress, by Carola Dunn
Fleishman is in Trouble, by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Maigret’s Pickpocket, by Georges Simenon
Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle
Brightstorm, by Vashti Hardy
through 98. The Glorious, as yet Unpublished, draft novels of the women of my fiction workshop. You know who you are.