Books & Films 2020

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A list of all the books I read in 2020. Bold means that it was a library book. NF means it was non-fiction.

Lady Sings the Blues – Billie Holiday (nf)

Dolly – Susan Hill

They Don’t Teach This – Eniola Aluko (nf)

Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan (nf)

The Heavens – Sandra Newman

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy – Serhii Plokhy (nf)

Shark Drunk – Morten Strøksnes (nf)

Educated – Tara Westover (nf)

The Five – Hallie Rubenhold (nf)

The Summer I Turned Pretty – Jenny Han

Bearmouth – Liz Hyder

The Secret Barrister – Anonymous (nf)

False Values – Ben Aaronovitch

Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936 – Jeremy Treglow (nf)

The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker

Mudlarking – Lara Maiklem (nf)

And Water Shall Refuse Them – Lucie McKnight Hardy

The Folk Keeper – Franny Billingsley

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson

Only Mostly Devastated – Sophie Gonzalez

Date Me, Bryson Keller – Kevin Van Whye

The Consequences of Love – Gavanndra Hodge (nf)

Underland – Robert Macfarlane (nf)

The Deathless Girls – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Clap When You Land – Elizabeth Acevedo

Nada – Carmen Laforet

Good Girl, Bad Blood – Holly Jackson

The Familiars – Stacey Halls

There Were No Windows – Norah Hoult

Lucia – Alex Pheby

Astonishing Splashes of Colour – Clare Morrall

Harrow Lake – Kat Ellis

What Was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn

Daisy Jones and The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Chernobyl Prayer – Svetlana Alexievich (nf)

The Dutch House – Ann Patchett

The Animals at Lockwood Manor – Jane Healey

Scary Fairy Tales – Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown – Michael Cunningham (nf)

Wonderland – Juno Dawson

Hiroshima – John Hersey (nf)

Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams

Seashaken Houses – Tom Nancollas (nf)

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar – Chris Packham (nf)

The Wisdom of Bones – Kitty Aldridge

Sisters – Daisy Johnson

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery – Robert Kolker (nf)

People Who Eat Darkness: Love, Grief and A Journey Into Japan’s Shadows – Richard Lloyd Parry (nf)

The Chronology of Water – Lidia Yuknavitch (nf)

Invisible Women – Caroline Criado-Perez (nf)

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter – Sue Monk Kidd (nf)

Serpentine – Philip Pullman

The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell

Pine – Francine Toon

Troublemaker – Leah Remini (nf)

Wildwood – Roger Deakin (nf)

Earthlings – Sayaka Murata

The films/plays I managed to watch in 2020. Bold means it was rented (via Netflix or from my cable provider), italics mean it was in the cinema and plain means it was on the TV.

Knives Out

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

The Farewell

Edie

The Bookshop

Little Women

The Death of Stalin

Falling Inn Love

Hustlers

Set It Up

The Personal History of David Copperfield

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

Parasite

Emma. (the last film I saw at the cinema before they closed)

Lost Girls

One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre broadcast)

Jane Eyre (National Theatre broadcast)

Big Trouble in Little China

Inglorious Basterds

Becoming

Antony and Cleopatra (National Theatre broadcast)

Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre broadcast)

A Streetcar Named Desire (National Theatre broadcast)

Birds of Prey (and the Fabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

20th Century Women

Southside With You

Summerland (the Guildhall cinema was briefly open during the autumn of 2020)

Demolition Man

Dark Waters

Robin and Marian

Hillbilly Elegy

The Shining