Book List 2021

1. The Playboy of the Western World, by JM Synge

2. Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu

3. The Pyrates, by GM Fraser

4. By Force Alone, by Lavie Tidhar

5. Babbit, by Sinclair Lewis

6. The Clockwork Twin, by Walter R Brooks

7. Hoping Against Hope, by Philip Caputo

8. Cairo, by James Aldridge [p]

9. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, by Donald Bogle [p]

10. Black Athena, by Martin Bernal

11. The Omega Men, by Tom King

12. Heroes in Crisis, by Tom King

13. The Widow's Son, by Robert Anton Wilson

14. Nature's God, by Robert Anton Wilson

15. Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees

16. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

17. Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser

18. The Clockwork Twin, by Walter R Brooks

19. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys

20. Despair, by Vladimir Nabokov

21. Royal Flash, by George MacDonald Fraser

22. Flash for Freedom, by George MacDonald Fraser

23. Flashman at the Charge, by George MacDonald Fraser

24. Lost in the Cosmos, by Walker Percy

25. I am a Cat, by Soseki Natsume

26. All Over Ireland, ed. Deirdre Madden

27. Kids on Bikes, by Doug Levandowski and Jonathan Gilmour

28. Honor + Intrigue

29. Vision: The Complete Collection, by Tom King

30. The Sherrif of Baghdad, by Tom King

31. The Immortal Soul Salvage Yard, by Beth May

32. Landscape with Invisible Hand, by MT Anderson

33. How Fiction Works, by James Wood

34. The Urth of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe

35. Freddy the Politician, by Walter R Brooks

36. Seven Wonders (many authors)

37. The Magnificent Defeat, by Frederick Beuchner

38. Compassion & Conviction, by Justin Giboney etc

39. The Adventure Zone: The Crystal Kingdom, by Clint McElroy et al

40. 1688: A Global History, by John E Wills

41. Social Creature, by Tara Isabella Burton

42. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

43. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

44. It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis

45. Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis

46. The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK

47. Preston Sturges, by Preston Sturges

48. Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

49. Headlong Hall, by Thomas Love Peacock

50. Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock

51. Hitler's American Friends, by Bradley W. Hart

52. Interlibrary Loan, by Gene Wolfe

53. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See

54. The End of the Affair, by Graham Green

55. Histories, by Herodotus, tr. Aubrey de Selincourt

56. The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, tr. Peter Ackroyd