In 2020, I went bonobos, learned how to dream, traveled with Mary Wollstonecraft, glimpsed the future of our planet, became a total Dickhead, kissed the Spider Woman, discovered secret histories, experimented with the tarot, imagined a paleo lifestyle, and revisited Kierkegaard, Faulkner, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. Here are the highlights of my reading in the Year of Coronavirus:

The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace Through Pleasure (Susan Block)
The Essential Kierkegaard (ed. Edward V. Hong and Edna H. Hong)
The Art of Dreaming (Carlos Castaneda)
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Mary Wollstonecraft)
The Mansion (William Faulkner)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. A. Kent Hieatt and Constance B. Hieatt)
The Uninhabitable Earth (David Wallace-Wells)
Energy: A Beginner’s Guide (Vaclav Smil)
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
The Tempest (William Shakespeare, ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen)
Black Prophetic Fire (Cornel West in dialogue with and ed. Christa Buschendorf)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (James W. Loewen)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig, trans. Thomas Colchie)
The Golden Khan (A.H. Wang)
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Miéville)
The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination (Robert M. Place)
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá)
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Jason Stanley)
Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents (Margaret Kimberley)
American Tabloid (James Ellroy)
The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress (Christopher Ryan)
CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Tome O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring)
Reporter: A Memoir (Seymour M. Hersh)
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)