26 February – 25 March
Fiction
Edna O’Brien, Girl
Klaus-Peter Wolf, Ostfriesenzorn
Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party
Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
Ella Danz, Osterfeuer
Non-fiction
Jill Lepore, These Truths: A history of the United States
Rob White, BFI Film Classics: The Third Man
26 December – 25 January
Fiction
Roy Jacobsen, The Unseen
Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
Krischan Koch, Rote Grutze mit Schuss
Lucy Atkins, Magpie Lane
Non-fiction
Martyn Bennett, Oliver Cromwell
Fiction
Volker Kutscher, Goldstein
José Saramago, The Double
L. J. Ross, Holy Island
Graham Swift, Here We Are
Geir Tangen, Seelenmesse
Non-fiction
Mark Kermode, The Good, the Bad, and the Multiplex: What’s wrong with modern movies?
Linda Colley, Acts of Union and Disunion
Fiction
Luca di Fulvio, The Mannequin Man
Herta Müller, The Passport
Klaus-Peter Wolf, Ostfriesenhölle
Ali Smith, Hotel World
Non-fiction
William Atkins, The Moor: Lives, Landscape, Literature
Mark Kermode, The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex: What’s wrong with modern movies
Non-fiction
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work
Mike Dennis, The Stasi: Myth and reality
William Atkins, The Moor: Lives, landscape, literature
Fiction
Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock
Antti Tuomainen, The Man who Died
Graham Greene, Stamboul Train
Sujata Massey, Die Tote im Badehaus
Doris Lessing, Landlocked
I’ve done a lot of reading between 20th March till 20th April 2020, and thought it would be nice to keep a diary and look later at the patterns.
Non-fiction
Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Mike Dennis, The Stasi: Myth and Reality
Fiction
Krischan Koch, Dreimal tote Tante
Sophie Hannah and three others, The Understudy
Colm Toibin, The Story of the Night
Thomas Enger, Scarred
Volker Kutscher, Der stumme Tod (part of the series that loosely inspired Babylon Berlin)
Sebastian Barry, A Thousand Moons
Online stuff
The Conversation has really come into its own during the crisis https://theconversation.com/uk
Nature is a superb source for the science https://www.nature.com/
Full Fact always does a great job debunking fake news https://fullfact.org/
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