A list of twenty novels I loved in 2020, presented without comment and in no particular order
Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
Anasazi, Mike McCubbins and Matt Bryan
Gringos, Charles Portis
The Wig, Charles Wright
Bleeding Edge, Thomas Pynchon
Animalia, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo; translation by Frank Wynne
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
Zeroville, Steve Erickson
Citizen, Claudine Rankine
Oreo, Fran Ross
A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes
Satantango, László Krasznahorkai; translation by George Szirtes
Lancelot, Walker Percy
Dunfords Travels Everywheres, William Melvin Kelley
Motorman, David Ohle
Fat City, Leonard Gardner
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