Vincennes Big Old List of Books 2020
Vincennes Review of Books 2020 is here!
Key:
* = Excellent, highly recommend
~ = Actively bad, do not recommend
First reads
Never Mind — Edward St Aubyn
Bad Blood —John Carreyrou *
Bad News — Edward St Aubyn
Marriage, a History — Stephanie Coontz
Olive Kitteridge — Elizabeth Strout
Some Hope — Edward St Aubyn
Normal People — Sally Rooney *
Mother’s Milk — Edward St Aubyn
Big Girl, Small Town — Michelle Gallen ~
At Last — Edward St Aubyn
The First World War: A Very Short Introduction — Michael Howard *
Fitzgerald’s Craft of Short Fiction — Alice Hall Petry *
The Perfect Hour — James L. W. West III
Candles and Carnival Lights — Joan M. Allen
What We Did In Bed — Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani
where we once belonged — Sia Figiel
The Woman in the Dunes — Kobo Abe
Rites of Spring — Modris Eksteins *
College of One — Sheilah Graham
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction — Ben Hutchinson ~
Man-Size in Marble and Other Horrors — Edith Nesbit
F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time — ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Jackson Bryer
The Ghost: A Cultural History — Susan Owens *
Spring Night — Tarjai Vesaas *
Intimate Matters — John D’Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman *
How Music Works — John Powell
Lake Success — Gary Shteyngart *
The Mirror & the Light — Hilary Mantel *
Kitch — Anthony Joseph
Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser
Night Boat to Tangier — Kevin Barry
When They Call You a Terrorist — Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories — Leo Tolstoy
Gumption — Nick Offerman ~
Singled Out — Virginia Nicholson
Outcomes Over Output — Joshua Seiden
Zelda — Nancy Milford
Tono-Bungay — H. G. Wells
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time — Jade Broughton Adams
A Natural History of the Romance Novel — Pamela Regis
Creating America — Jan Cohn
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness — Michael Nowlin
My Ántonia — Willa Cather *
A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald — ed. Kirk Curnutt
A Fortune Yet — Bryant Mangum
The Dead of Summer — Camilla Way
The Sheik — E. M. Hull
The Bradys and the Boy Shadower — Francis Worcester Doughty
The Red Privateer — Thomas H. Wilson
The Price of Paradise — Stephen W. Potts
Scott Fitzgerald — Andrew Turnbull
Raising the Sea-Drowned and Other Stories — E. Saxey
The Glass Hotel — Emily St John Mandel
Broadway — Fran Leadon ~
Seventeen — Booth Tarkington
Magazines for the Millions — Helen Damon-Moore
Lost and Found — Geneen Roth
Teenage — Jon Savage *
The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing
Pale Rider — Laura Spinney *
The Book of Daniel — E. L. Doctorow *
Your Voice Speaks Volumes — Jane Setter
Night Film — Marisha Pessl
The Lost Estate — Alain-Fournier
Subprime Attention Crisis — Tim Hwang
Jagua Nana — Cyprian Ekwensi
SantaLand Diaries — David Sedaris ~
Fox 8 — George Saunders
Albert Angelo — B. S. Johnson *
The Quick and the Dead — Joy Williams
Term and Conditions — Ysenda Maxtone Graham *
Caught — Henry Green
Chasm — Dorothea Tanning ~
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys 1664 — Samuel Pepys
Rereads
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda — ed Cathy Barks & Jackson R. Bryer
This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald *
Five Children and It — E. Nesbit
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel *
Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel *
The Complete Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Volume 1 — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dubliners — James Joyce *
Lucky Jim — Kingsley Amis *
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh *
Jeeves In The Offing — P. G. Wodehouse
The Bible (New International Version) *
Previously: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
