2020.Book37 - This was Supposed to be Fun (Martis)

Fairly shallow memoir (of legitimately traumatic events) coupled with some basic race-and-society run-through

2020.Book36 - Spy Hook (Deighton)

 Pretty good. Middle of a series though, so I'll start at the beginning.

2020.Book35 - Middle C (Gass)

 Excellent. Live free of blame by lying. Also modern composers!

2020.Book34 - My Lady Ludlow (Gaskell)

 Good characters.

2020.Book33 - A Jazz Odyssey (Peterson)

 Very interesting life story. Includes a lot of commentary on music and musicians, which is great.

2020.Book32 - The Atrocity Archive (Stross)

 Pretty good. A little too ostentatiously nerdy.

2020.Book31 - The Rhesus Chart (Stross)

 Fun stuff.

2020.Book30 - Give, Take

 Nice

2020.Book29 - The Bell Jar (Plath)

 Sad, then hopeful.

2020.Book28 - The Mirror and the Light (Mantel)

 Excellent. A great novel.

2020.Book27 - Caste (Wilkerson)

 Excellent. Race is the skin, caste is the bones.

2020.Book26 - The Angel of the Crows (Addison)

 Very good. Not the non-stop fun times of Goblin Emperor; Doyle has more problems.

2020.Book25 - The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (Robin)

 Very interesting. Tragic view.

2020.Book24 - Being and Place Among the Tlingit (Thornton)

 Pretty interesting.

2020.Book23 - Order of the Pure Moon ... (Cho)

Pretty good. Cho will have my eternal respect for that "smoke curling from her jaws" in Sorceror to the Crown.

2020.Book22 - Wolf Hall (Mantel)

Excellent historical novel.

2020.Book21 - The Red Threads of Fortune (Yang)

OK. Takes the epic out of epic fantasy. Gender world-building unconvincing (we didn't have it, so we invented it?), grammar is awkward, but that's not a deal-breaker.

2020.Book20 - The Skin We're In (Cole)

Excellent review of 2017.

2020.Book19 - LETTERS (Barth)

Like wading through waist-deep water. The exertion is pleasurable if you don't need to get anywhere.

2020.Book18 - The Last Emperox (Scalzi)

Good. Entertaining. Felt like floating along the top.

2020.Book17 - Listen, Liberal (Frank)

Excellent but, sadly, obsolete.

2020.Book16 - Nomad (Gibbons, Partridge)

Fairly amusing.

2020.Book15 - Giles Goat-Boy (Barth)

Disappointing. Racism doesn't age well, and neither do the jokes (except the Beists "go limp!"). Felt like a slog after about the first third.

2020.Book14 - Agency (Gibson)

Excellent near-past thriller. Gibson has such good style, love it.

2020.Book13 - Vets Might Fly (Herriott)

Funny veterinary memoir

2020.Book12 - This is Going to Hurt (Kay)

Funny medical memoir

2020.Book11 - Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

Very good classic.

2020.Book10 - Milkman (Burns)

Excellent. Very funny

2020.Book9 - Odyssey (Homer)

Pretty good classical.

2020.Book8 - Cartesian Sonata (Gass)

This was hard to get into, but after some effort, big payoff. Also, first Penner in literature.

2020.Book7 - Immigrants in Prairie Cities (Loewen, Friesen)

Pretty interesting. General info on Canadian prairie immigration.

2020.Book6 - This is How You Lose the TIme War (El-Mohtar, Gladstone)

Pretty good SF love story.

2020.Book5 - The Iliad (Homer)

Non-stop violence and speeches

2020.Book4 - The True Queen (Cho)

Good enjoyable sequel.

Book3 - Knapsack Full of Dreams (Crowe)

Very good.

2020.Book2 - Women Talking (Toews)

Excellent stuff. Intentional society-building.

2020.Book1 - Right Ho, Jeeves (Wodehouse)

More high-quality amusement.