Books I've Read: Q2 2020
This quarter, I read my first-ever book in French! A picture of my vocabulary board and the first two French books I purchased. Lausanne, Switzerland. May 20, 2020.
A list of the books I read in the second quarter of 2020, in rough chronological order:
Cantoras, by Carolina de Robertis
Wow, No Thank You, by Samantha Irby
The Ancestor, by Danielle Trussoni
And Their Children after Them, by Nicolas Mathieu
The Years, by Annie Erneaux
The Mirror & the Light, by Hilary Mantel
Meaty, by Samantha Irby
The City We Became, by N. K. Jemisin
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
Circe, by Madeline Miller
Riot Baby, by Tochi Onyebuchi
We are Never Meeting in Real Life, by Samantha Irby
Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
Ablutions, by Patrick DeWitt
The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje
How Much of These Hills Is Gold, by C. Pam Zhang
Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, by Wendy S. Walters
Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann
Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Avalanche Hotel, by Niko Tackian (French-language edition)
The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett
Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth, by David Sax
As in the past, I’ve bolded the books that really wowed me and that I would recommend highly.
Also of note in this past quarter’s reading list: I read my first book in French! A language-exchange partner recommended Avalanche Hotel because the author had set it in our region of Switzerland, the writing looked simple enough, and the book comes in at only approximately 200 mass-market-paperback pages. Though each page of the book took me an age to get through (with a dictionary always at hand and frequently referenced), I made it. A milestone!
Want to check out the best books I read in Q1? Read my list of books read in the first quarter of 2020 here. (Update: You can check out the books read in Q3 2020 and Q4 2020, too. And you can click here for my list of the best of the best reads of 2020.)
I’ve you’ve read any of these, please share your thoughts!