2020 reads:
Robert Dellar etc. - Seaton Point
Simon Morris - Watching The Wheels (impossible not to read this as a suicide note, as I did in late January)
Simon Morris - Sea Of Love
Simon Morris - Civil War
Philip Ziegler - The Black Death
Paul Barker (ed) - The Other Britain
Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi (though catch the O.U. version with Donald Pleasance on YT! Ubu! Ubu!)
Alfred Jarry - Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll
Malcolm Gaskill - Witchfinders
Eliot - The Wasteland (plunged me into a spring/summer of recurring jinxes, many involving The Cocteau Twins)
Iain Sinclair - White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
Matthew Ingram - Retreat
Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (some interesting personal anecdotes from KonMari)
Thomas Disch - 334
PKD - Clans Of The Alphane Moon
PKD - Martian Time Slip
PKD - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (paranoid police state where blacks are more or less eliminated - read this a week before you-know-what kicked off)
PKD - The Man Who Japed (and then someone destroys a statue)
Tom Vague - King Mob Echo (I CAN'T BREATHE)
PKD - The Unteleported Man (WTF?? Bolded for giving me a migraine)
PKD - Game Players Of Titan
PKD - The Galactic Pot Healer
PKD - A Maze Of Death
PKD - The Cosmic Puppets
PKD - Dr Bloodmoney
Jim Thompson - The Getaway
Jim Thompson - After Dark My Sweet
Steve Jones - Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol (brilliant until he joins the Pistols, then ZZZ...)
James Herbert - The Rats (classic)
Ursula LeGuin - The Lathe Of Heaven
James Mason - Siege (don't cancel me, it was shit)
Shakespeare (?) - Pericles (lol, this is nuts)
Shakespeare - Cymbeline
Donald Trump - Art Of The Deal
Charles Simic - Hotel Insomnia
Baudelaire - Selected Poems (this is every year, TBF)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (ditto)
Gordon Burn - Fullalove
Mick Norman - Angels From Hell
Camus - The Plague
Boris Vian - Froth On The Daydream
Fred/Judy Vermorel - Starlust
Muriel Spark - The Ballad Of Peckham Rye
Muriel Spark - The Public Image
Muriel Spark - The Comforters
Muriel Spark - The Girls Of Slender Means
Muriel Spark - Momento Mori
Lewis Shiner - Deserted Cities Of The Heart
Michael Moorcock - The Final Program
Alasdair Gray - 1982 Janine
Grim Humour 1983-1987 (UK zine comp with pointless additional waffle)
Jay Rubin - Making Sense Of Japanese
Cure Dolly - Unlocking Japanese
ABANDONED:
PKD/Ray Bradbury - The Ganymede Takeover (painfully 'wacky')
Michael Moorcock - Mother London (painfully dull? a real slog, and annoying characters)
John Lydon - Anger Is An Energy (piss-poor and full of easily checkable lies)
Some loser - Gold Dust Woman (shit AND smug Stevie Nicks biog, one of the worst things I've EVER read. 'Tango In The Night' became a daily fixture of my Lockdown 1.0)
Oh, and there was something by some philosothinker about a vampire squid, it was mentioned here in March? I can't remember what it was called but I downloaded it off Soulseek and it was great for 6 pages before it went all wooooh Deleuze and I couldn't follow a fucking sentence.