My 2020 and 2019 Booklist

My reading habits the past couple of years have not exactly been prolific. However, I did at least read consistently. Since I forgot to post last year's list, here's both, with brief comments for a few.

2019
Lolita - Nabokov 

God Without Religion - Farley (This is the book about Christianity I've needed my entire life)
Fire & Blood - Martin & Wheatley (Speaking of, this book reads like 1 and 2 Kings in the Bible, but with less Divinity and more dragons. That's actually the opposite of what I need from Christianity, but it works in this book. Great drawings by my favorite illustrator, Dark Times' Douglas Wheatley)

Neverwhere - Gaiman 

The Rime of the Modern Mariner - Hayes

Frankenstein - Shelley

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Jackson

Doctor Sleep - King (I reviewed the audiobook for this one)

2020

Mare Internum - Helmer (Thanks, Gilbert Redman's!)

The Thousand Orcs - Salvatore

Snow, Glass, Apples - Gaiman/Doran (Gotta be the most brutal retelling of the Snow White fable in history...sheds some new light to say the least)

Creatures of the Night - Gaiman/Zulli

Signal to Noise - Gaiman/McKean

Sphere - Crichton (3rd time--I reread it and Congo because my podcast did an episode on the film adaptations. It's still the best popcorn fiction I've ever read. So much fun.)
Congo - Crichton (2nd time)
The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne
The Turn of the Screw - James
Salem's Lot - King (I reviewed the audiobook for this one too)