Well, the “We’re” will have to be aspirational for now. But here’s a What I’ve Been Reading list:
January 2021
The Corner That Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
February
The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railways, by Christian Wolmar
March
Hitler, My Neighbour, by Edgar Feuchtwanger
April
Of Smiling Peace, by Stefan Heym
May
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education, by Sybille Bedford
June
Hav, by Jan Morris
July
The Late Mattia Pascal, by Luigi Pirandello
Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke
War of Shadows, by Gershom Gorenberg
August
Men at Arms, by Evelyn Waugh
Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirlees
The Lanchaster Tradition, by GF Bradby
September
Kingdoms of Elfin, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love Among the Ruins: A Romance of the Near Future, by Evelyn Waugh
October
Earth, by Emile Zola
Koba the Dread, by Martin Amis
November
Orwell and Politics, collected writings by George Orwell
December
The Cat’s Cradle Book, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
January 2022
The Road to Middle-Earth, by Tom Shippey
February
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
March
The Every, by Dave Eggers
April
The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
The Premonition, by Michael Lewis
May
Helena, by Evelyn Waugh
The Nineties, by Chuck Klosterman
The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson
The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
June
Kingdom of Characters, by Jing Tsu
Distant Lands, by Halford Mackinder
Creating the 20th Century, by Vaclav Smil
Gentleman of the Road, by Michael Chabon
July
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar
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