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Here’s my list of 42 books read in 2020 and a brief verdict. Considering the amount of work and chores I had to do last year it’s amazing anything got read.

(* Indicates it has been read before.)

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Five stars

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré, 1974
Don Quixote, Cervantes, 1605-1616
Masters of Reality – Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne, Clerk and Elliott, 2018
Rorke’s Drift Diary, Captain William Penn Symons, 1879
Dead Souls, Nikolay Gogol, 1842/1852
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859
The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré, 1977
The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan, 1678-84
Elizabeth I, Helen Castor, 2018
Auschwitz, Sybille Steinbacher, 2004
Smiley’s People, John le Carré, 1979

Four stars

Richard I, Thomas Asbridge, 2018
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1989
Athelstan, Tom Holland, 2016
Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany, Uwe Schuette, 2020
The Princess Bride, William Goldman, 1973
Stephen, Carl Watkins, 2015
Suldrun’s Garden, Jack Vance, 1983
The Magician’s Nephew, C. S. Lewis, 1955*
The Green Pearl, Jack Vance, 1985
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis, 1950*
The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis, 1954*
Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis, 1951*
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis, 1952*
The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis, 1953*
Granicus 334 BC, Michael Thompson, 2007
The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis, 1956*
Majuba 1881, Ian Castle, 1996
Madouc, Jack Vance, 1989
The Wild West, Frederick Nolan, 2003
Cromwell, David Horspool, 2017
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, 1877*
At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft, 1936
The Seven Years’ War, Daniel Marston, 2001
The Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453, Anne Curry, 2002

Three stars

Sarah Jane, James Sallis, 2019
Unman, Wittering and Zigo, Giles Cooper, 1958*
The Silent Listener, D. J. Thorp, 2011
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, 1967
Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata, 1948

Two stars

The Man with a Thousand Names, A. E. van Vogt, 1974

One star

N/A

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