For 2020 we will be reading twelve books that include a bird name or the word ‘bird’ in the title. Our genres include one classic, one memoir, a book of short stories, one non-fiction, two historical fiction, one murder mystery, and five literary fiction, two by Japanese authors, one by an Irish author, one by a British author and one by an American. The complete list is below.
January: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
February: Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
March: Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Mruakami
April: Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
May: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
June: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien
July: Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
August: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
September: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
October: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
November: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
December: Wings of the Dove by Henry James