By the grace of God, we’ve made it through the first half of 2020—it’s felt rather longer than six months! And all indications suggest that we’re in for another long six months of this topsy-turvy year…
It will come as no surprise to people who know me that my personal coping mechanism has been to read a lot. These are the books I’ve finished in 2020 thus far (given everything going on, a rather higher proportion than usual has been light fiction!):
Fiction:
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
- ———, Parable of the Talents
- G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown
- ———, The Wisdom of Father Brown
- ———, The Incredulity of Father Brown
- ———, The Secret of Father Brown
- ———, The Scandal of Father Brown
- Agatha Christie, Endless Night
- ———, Miss Marple Meets Murder
- The Mirror Crack’d
- A Pocket Full of Rye
- At Betram’s Hotel
- The Moving Finger
- ———, Miss Marple: The Complete Stories
- ———, The A.B.C. Murders
- ———, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- ———, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- ———, The Secret Adversary
- ———, The Murder on the Links
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
- N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1)
- ———, The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #2)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Novels & Stories, vol 1
- Rocannon’s World
- Planet of Exile
- City of Illusions
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- The Dispossessed
- Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael #1)
- ———, One Corpse Too Many (Brother Cadfael #2)
- ———, Monk’s Hood (Brother Cadfael #3)
- ———, Saint Peter’s Fair (Brother Cadfael #4)
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- ———, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ———, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ———, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ———, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ———, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ———, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Connie Willis, Lincoln’s Dreams & Passage
Non-fiction:
- G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
- Wallace L. Daniel, Russia’s Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men and His Times
- April French, ed., An Inner Step Toward God: Writings and Teachings on Prayer by Father Alexander Men
- Sergei Hackel, Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova 1891–1945
- Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
- Archimandrite Sophrony, His Life Is Mine
Drama:
- William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
- ———, The Taming of the Shrew
Loving the Word 