Books I Read in 2020

January

  • Duff Cooper: Talleyrand
  • Joseph Roth: Hiob
  • Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
  • Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughtherhouse 5

February

  • Kazu Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
  • Fumiko Enchi: The Waiting Years
  • Yoav Goldberg: Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing
  • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
  • H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness
  • Jenny Offill: Dept. of Speculation

March

  • John Reed: Ten Days That Shook the World
  • Henry James: The Turn of the Screw & The Aspen Papers
  • Brandon Sanderson: The Final Empire

April

  • Brandon Sanderson: The Well of Ascension
  • Brandon Sanderson: The Hero of Ages
  • Richard Pettigrew: Choosing for Changing Selves
  • Phoebe Gloeckner: The Diary of a Teenage Girl

May

  • Plato: Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo)

June

  • Robert Caro: The Power Broker

July

  • Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • John Miller & Scott Page: Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince

August

  • John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge: The Company. A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
  • Toni Morrison: Sula
  • Michael Mitterauer: Warum Europa?

September

  • Michael Mann: The Sources of Social Power. Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
  • Robert Musil: Drei Frauen
  • Robert Seethaler: Das Feld

October

  • Michael Köhlmeier: Bruder und Schwester Lenobel
  • Gregory Benford: Timescape
  • James Pustejovsky: The Generative Lexicon
  • Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress

November

  • Mieko Kawakami: Breasts and Eggs

December

  • Dirk Geeraerts: Theories of Lexical Semantics
  • Franz Werfel: Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift
  • Xaver Bayer: Geschichten mit Marianne
  • Jean Aitchison: Words in the Mind
  • Stefan Zweig: Der Amokläufer