I've been doing a lot of reading in 2020, and mostly books on music for our podcast BOOK MUSIK. Still, here is the list of my favorite books I read this year, and I recommend that you too, give these books a read. Not in any special order:
1) "Self-Portrait with Russian Piano" Wolf Wondratschek (Fiction)
2) "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" Luc Sante (essays)
3) "A Sound Mind" Paul Morley (Music History/Essays)
4) "Peter and the Wolves" Adele Bertei (Memoir)
5) "Recombo DNA: The Story of DEVO, or how the 60s become the 80s" Kevin C. Smith (Music & Culture)
6)"Sweet Dreams" Dylan Jones (Music History)
7) "Suppose a Sentence" Brian Dillon (essays)
8) "William N. Copley: Selected Writings" (art history)
9)"Wagnerism" Alex Ross (music history)
10) "Written in Invisible Ink" Hervé Guibert (Fiction)
11) "Niche" Momus (memoir)
12) "Felix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde" (art/literature history)
13) "Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper" Diarmuid Hester
14) "Figure It Out" Wayne Koestenbaum (essays)
15) "Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things" Robin Muir (Social History)
16) "Tapping the Source" Kem Nunn (Surf-Noir)
17) "The Kinks: Songs of the Semi-Detached" Mark Doyle (music history/London)
18) "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism" Cornelius Cardew (Music & Politics)
19) "Gidget" Frederick Kohner (Surf biography)
20) "Dora Lives: The Autobiography of Miki Dora" (Surf art/Memior)
21) "French New Wave: A Revolution in Design" Tony Nourmand (Film and graphic design history)
22) "It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track" Ian Penman (music essays)
23) "Parallel Play" Tim Page (memoir)
24) "The Subversion of Images" Paul Nougé (art/surrealism)
25) "Tony Conrad Writings" Andrew Lampert (essays)
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