2020 Reading List

                                                      

1. An Autobiography - Angela Y. Davis (1974)
2. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata (2016)
3. A Coffin for Dimitrios - Eric Ambler (1939)
4. Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography - Anne Edwards (2001)
5. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
6. Greene on Capri: A Memoir - Shirley Hazzard (2000)
7. Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse (1959)
8. A Tree is a Tree - King Vidor (1953)
9. The Captain and the Enemy - Graham Greene (1988)
10. Lipstick: A Celebration of the World's Favorite Cosmetic - Jessica Pallingston (1999)
11. The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by the Members of the Algonquin Round Table - Otto Penzler, ed. (2007)
12. Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley - Billy Altman (1997)
13. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson (1912)
14. The Executioners - John D. MacDonald (1957)
15. The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck (1961)
16. The Browning Version - Terence Rattigan (1948)
17. Trifles - Susan Glaspell (1916)
18. A Kind of Loving - Stan Barstow (1960)
19. The Encyclopedia of American Radio: Am A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern - Ron Lackmann (1996)
20. Poor Cow - Nell Dunn (1967)
21. The Ministry of Fear - Graham Greene (1943)
22. The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark (1970)
23. A Theft - Saul Bellow (1989)
24. Glory in the Flower - William Inge (1958)
25. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom - David W. Blight (2018)
26. Devotion - Patti Smith (2017)
27. Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Cass Elliot - Eddi Fiegel (2005)
28. In the Dream House: A Memoir - Carmen Maria Machado (2019)
29. An Evening with Lynn Fontanne - Martha Rofheart (2013)
30. The Collector - John Fowles (1963)
31. Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde (1984)
32. The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1940)
33. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Perry Bundles (2001)
34. Difficult Women - Roxane Gay (2017)
35. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love Art, and the Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont - Shawn Levy (2019)
36. Year of the Monkey - Patti Smith (2019)
37. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix - Charles R. Cross
38. True Grit - Charles Portis (1968)
39. Desert Town - Ramona Stewart (1946)
40. Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes - Matthew Kennedy (1993)
41. Chocolates for Breakfast - Pamela Moore (1956)
42. Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women - Vicki Piekarski, ed. (1984)
43. The Killing - Lionel White (1955)
44. A Private View - Irene Mayer Selznick (1983)
45. The Blue Room - Georges Simenon (1960)
46. Miles: The Autobiography - Miles Davis (1989)
47. Out - Natsuo Kirino (1997)
48. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, 1) - Octavia E. Butler (1993)
49. Stamboul Train - Graham Greene (1932)
50. Lysistrata - Aristophanes (-411)
51. Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director - Patrick McGilligan (2011)
52. If Winter Comes - A.S.M. Hutchinson (1922)
53. Marjoe: The Life of Marjoe Gortner - Steven S. Gaines (1973)
54. Midnight Cowboy - James Leo Herlihy (1965)
55. Self-Portrait - Gene Tierney (1979)
56. Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories - Elmore Leonard (2011)
57. Blessings in Disguise - Alec Guinness (1985)
58. Goldfinger - Ian Fleming (1959)
59. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - Georges Simenon (1946)
60. nigger: An Autobiography - Dick Gregory (1964)
61. Now, Voyager - Olive Higgins Prouty (1941)
62. Pop 1280 - Jim Thompson (1964)
63. Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers (1934)
64. Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock - Christina Lane (2020)
65. Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey (2020)
66. The Emperor Jones - Eugene O'Neill (1920)
67. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse (1963)
68. The Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West (1918)
69. Skyscraper - Faith Baldwin (1931)
70. Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson - Barbara Ransby (2012)
71. Horseman, Pass By - Larry McMurtry (1961)
72. Going to Meet the Man - James Baldwin (1965)
73. I Am Not Your Negro - James Baldwin (2017)
74. Shirley: A Novel - Susan Scarf Merrell (2013)
75. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God - George Bernard Shaw (1932)
76. Desert of the Heart - Jan Rule (1964)
77. Fire and Desire: Mixed-Race Movies in the Silent Era - Jane M. Gaines (2001)
78. Shane - Jack Schaefer (1949)
79. Stars for Freedom: Hollywood, Black Hollywood, and the Civil Rights Movement - Jane M. Gaines (2015)
80. The Cry and the Covenant - Morton Thompson (1949)
81. Cash: The Autobiography - Johnny Cash (1997)
82. Odes From the Divan of Hafiz - Richard Le Gallienne (1903)
83. The Rat Race - Garson Kanin (1960)
84. Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone - Nadine Cohodas (2010)
85. Butcher's Crossing - John Williams (1960)
86. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights - Gretchen Sorin (2020)
87. Return to Peyton Place - Grace Metalious (1959)
88. Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy - Maggie Anderson (2012) 89. Pudd 'N Head Wilson - Mark Twain (1893) 90. Even This I get to Experience - Norman Lear (20140 91. Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans (1884) 92. Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story - David Richards (1981) 93. Looking for Mr. Goodbar - Judith Rossner (1975) 94. Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro - Michele Kort (2002) 95. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949) 96. Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (1959) 97. The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons - Samantha Barbas (2005) 98. Shock Waves - Richard Matheson (1970) 99. Agostino - Alberto Moravia (1945)