Welcome to the Big List of Books for 2020. This is the sixth iteration of the list of books and reading materials acquired by the Library at Winkelman Abbey. The previous five are here:

• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015

This list will continue the process started last year – book titles will link to the book publisher or distributor or other place (like Indiebound) where books can be purchased. Only as a last resort (or in the event the book was created using CreateSpace) will the link go to Amazon. Bolded titles are those I have read to completion.

And as always, you can find the complete list of book I own over at LibraryThing, and the terribly incomplete list of books I have read over at GoodReads.

January (27)

1. Gibson, Andrea – Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)
2. McGuire, Seanan – Every Heart a Doorway
3. Hurley, Kameron – The Light Brigade
4. Berardi, Franco “Bifo” – Breathing: Chaos and Poetry (Semiotext(e))
5. El-Mohtar, Amal and Gladstone, Max – This Is How You Lose the Time War
6. Landsman, Keren – The Heart of the Circle (Angry Robot)
7. Eichenlaub, Anthony – Honor in an Age of Metal and Men
8. Bell, E.D.E. – Diamondsong (Atthis Arts)
9. Bell, E.D.E. (ed.) – Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove (Atthis Arts)
10. Bell, E.D.E. (ed.) – As Told By Things (Atthis Arts)
11. Marsalis – Apeman Rex
12. Steinmetz, Ferrett – The Sol Majestic
13. Pike, J. Zachary – A Song of Three Spirits (Gnomish Press)
14. Sanford, Jason – Heaven’s Touch and Other Science Fiction Dreams
15. Sanford, Jason – Never Never Stories
16. Cipri, Nino – Homesick (Dzanc Books)
17. Eichorn, Shannon – Rights of Use (Astra Invicta Publishing)
18. Stewart, Glynn – Starship’s Mage (Faolan’s Pen Publishing)
19. Hurley, Kameron – Empire Ascendant (Angry Robot)
20. Hurley, Kameron – The Broken Heavens (Angry Robot)
21. Gibbs, Mary Lynne – The Dragon’s Curse (Dragon’s Roost Press)
22. Cieslak, Michael – Urbane Decay (Source Point Press)
23. Principia Discordia (Steve Jackson Games)
24. Howey, Hugh – Half Way Home
25. Thomas, Lynne M. and Thomas, Michael Damian (eds.) – The Best of Uncanny (Subterranean Press)
26. Poetry #215.5 (February 2020)
27. Kim, Sagwa – b, Book, and Me (Two Lines Press)

February (10)

28. Murnane, Gerald – Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (And Other Stories)
29. VanderMeer, Jeff – Dead Astronauts
30. Berardi, Franco “Bifo” – The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e))
31. Jacobin #26 (Winter 2020)
32. The Invisible Committee– The Coming Insurrection (Semiotext(e))
33. Tikkanen, Märta – The Love Story of the Century (Deep Vellum)
34. That We May Live (Two Lines Press)
35. Poetry #215.6 (March 2020)
36. Sriduangkaew, Benjanun – Winterglass (Apex Book Company)
37. Sriduangkaew, Benjanun – Mirrorstrike (Apex Book Company)

March (9)

38. The Paris Review #232 (Spring 2020)
39. Schiefauer, Jessica – Girls Lost (Deep Vellum)
40. Rain Taxi #25.1 (Spring 2020)
41. Ho Sok Fong – Lake Like a Mirror (Two Lines Press)
42. Callard, Agnes (ed.) – Boston Review #45.1, On Anger (Boston Review)
43. Kovacs, Christopher S. – The Ides of Octember: A Pictoral Bibliography of Roger Zelazny (NESFA Press)
44. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Rise of Gods (Kickstarter exclusive hardcover, signed and numbered)
45. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Rise of Gods (paperback, signed)
46. Dreamforge #5, March 2020

April (12)

47. Ortiz, Monica Teresa – Autobiography of a Semiromantic Anarchist (Host Publications)
48. Chang, Kristin – Past Lives, Future Bodies (Black Lawrence Press)
49. Ghalayini, Basma (ed.) – Palestine +100: Stories from a Century After the Nakba (Comma Press)
50. Tichý, Andrzej – Wretchedness (And Other Stories)
51. Unferth, Deb Olin – Barn 8 (And Other Stories)
52. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #8 (Fall 2019)
53. Karimi, Fowzia – Above Us the Milky Way (Deep Vellum)
54. Piketty, Thomas – Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press)
55. Robinson, Kim Stanley – Stan’s Kitchen (NESFA Press)
56. Jemisin, N.K. – The City We Became
57. Bell, E.D.E. (ed.) – Community of Magic Pens (Atthis Arts)
58. Buckell, Tobias S. – The Executioness (Subterranean Press)

May (17)

59. Smith, Patrick (ed.) – Conversations with William Gibson (University Press of Mississippi)
60. McDermott, J.M. – Last Dragon (Apex Book Company)
61. Poetry #216.2 (May 2020)
62. Freedman, Carl (ed.) – Conversations with Samuel R. Delaney (University Press of Mississippi)
63. Calonne, David Stephen (ed.) – Conversations with Gary Snyder (University Press of Mississippi)
64. Ahmad, Ehsan and Ahmad, Shakil – Wild Sun (Uproar Books)
65. Rowland, Diana – My Life as a White Trash Zombie
66. Chabitnoy, Abigail – How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan University Press)
67. Mukomolova, Gala – Without Protection (Coffee House Press)
68. Matthews, Airea D. – Simulacra (Yale University Press)
69. Foglio, Kaja and Foglio, Phil – Girl Genius: Queens and Pirates (Studio Foglio)
70. Ono, Masatsugo (Turvill, Angus, trans.) – Echo on the Bay (Two Lines Press)
71. Barrera, Jazmina (MacSweeney, Christina, trans.) – On Lighthouses (Two Lines Press)
72. Jacobin #37 (Spring 2020)
73. Bass, Ellen – Indigo (Copper Canyon Press)
74. Poetry #216.3 (June 2020)
75. Wang, M.L. – The Sword of Kaigen

June (15)

76. Lotringer, Sylvère and Morris, David (eds.)  – Schizo-Culture: The Book, The Event (Semiotext(e))
77. Coe, David B. and Palmatier, Joshua (eds.) – Galactic Stew (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
78. Butler, S.C. and Palmatier, Joshua (eds.) – Apocalyptic (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
79. Sarakas, Crystal and Palmatier Joshua (eds.) – My Battery is Low and It’s Getting Dark (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
80. Meadors, Melanie R. (ed.) – Hath No Fury (Outland Entertainment LLC)
81. Murphy, Cerece Rennie and Abbott, Alana Joli (eds.) – Where the Veil is Thin (Outland Entertainment LLC)
82. Boston Review: The Right to Be Elected (45.2)
83. Dreamforge #5 (March 2020)
84. Chavez, Felicia Rose, Olivarez, José, Perdomo, Willie (eds.) – The BreakBeat Poets, Volume 4: LatiNext (Haymarket Books)
85. Benjamin, Ruha (ed.) – Captivating Technology (Duke University Press)
86. Klein, Naomi – The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
87. Pike, J. Zachary – Orconomics
88. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: War of Gods
89. Poetry #216.4 (July/August 2020)
90. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #41

July (13)

91. Seng Ts’an – Trusting the Mind: Zen Epigrams (Empty Bowl; Red Pine, trans.)
92. A Day in the Life: The Empty Bowl & Diamond Sutras (Empty Bowl; Red Pine, trans.)
93. The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-Two Paragraphs & The Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva Sutra (Empty Bowl; Red Pine, trans.)
94. Soto, Mike – A Grave is Given Supper (Deep Vellum Publishing)
95. Davis, Jean – Dreams of Stars and Lies
96. The Paris Review #233 (Summer 2020)
97. Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: War of Gods (signed, uncorrected proof)
98. Salvage #8 (Summer 2020)
99. Woychik, Chila – Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology (Shanti Arts Publishing)
100. Jessup, Paul – Close Your Eyes (Apex Book Company)
101. Ultimate Bestiary: The Dreaded Accursed (Nord Games)

August (13)

102. Jacobin #38 (Summer 2020)
103. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9
104. Rothstein, Richard – The Color of Law
105. Alexander, Michelle – The New Jim Crow (The New Press)
106. Lazzarato, Maurizio – The Making of the Indebted Man (Semiotext(e))
107. Lazzarato, Maurizio – Governing by Debt (Semiotext(e))
108. Reckoning #4
109. Ndiaye, Marie – That Time of Year (Two Lines Press; Stump, Jordan, trans.)
110. Home (Two Lines Press)
111. Muir, Tamsyn – Gideon the Ninth
112. Desmond, Matthew – Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
113. Giorno, John – Great Demon Kings
114. Dickinson, Seth – The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

September (9)

115. Boston Review #45.3: The Politics of Care
116. The Paris Review #234
117. Wilkerson, Isabel – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
118. Harvey, Sara M. – The Labyrinth of the Dead (Apex Book Company)
119. Harvey, Sara M. – The Convent of the Pure (Apex Book Company)
120. Genn, Rachel – What You Could Have Won (And Other Stories)
121. Hernández, Claudia (Sanches, Julia, trans.) – Slash and Burn (And Other Stories)
122. Poetry #217.1 (October 2020)
123. Hines, Jim C. – Tamora Carter: Goblin Queen (self-published/Kickstarter)

October (9)

124. Kaneko, W. Todd – This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press)
125. Huff, Crystal M. (ed.) Recognize Fascism (World Weaver Press)
126. Harrison, Jim – Collected Ghazals (Copper Canyon Press)
127. Harrison, Jim – Letters to Yesenin (Copper Canyon Press)
128. Stack, Garrett – Yeoman’s Work (Bottom Dog Press)
129. Porter, Bill – Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits (Counterpoint Press)
130. Datlow, Ellen (ed.) – Edited By (Subterranean Press)
131. Verso, Francesco – Nexhuman (Apex Book Company)
132. Poetry #217.2 (November 2020)

November (11)

133. de Bodard, Aliette – Seven of Infinities (Subterranean Press)
134. de Bodard, Aliette – On a Red Station, Drifting (Immersion Press)
135. Wendig, Chuck – Damn Fine Story
136. Jacobin # 39
137. Chakraborty, S.A. – The Empire of Gold
138. Steffen, David (ed.) – The Long List Anthology, vol. 6 (Diabolical Plots, LLC.)
139. Amazing Stories #77.2
140. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #42
141. Jones, Kirk – Aetherchrist (Apex Book Company)
142. Knight, Zelda and Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald (eds.) – Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora (Aurelia Leo)
143. The Paris Review #235 (Winter 2020)

December (8)

144. Bebergal, Peter (ed.) – Appendix N.: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons (Strange Attractor Press)
145. VanderMeer, Jeff – Ambergris
146. Longley, Camille – Firefrost
147. The Boston Review #45.4: Climate Action (Fall 2020)
148. Stone, Ruth – The Essential Ruth Stone (Copper Canyon Press)
149. Rain Taxi Review of Books #25.4
150. Myler, Mike and Morrissey, Russ (eds.) – Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters (EN Publishing)
151. Waggoner, Tim – Some Kind of Monster (Apex Publications)