the toa 2020 december rereading list

Longtime readers will recall that I reserve December exclusively for rereading. In this year of COVID, it's occurred to me that it's a good bit of advice in general for anyone finding it difficult to read - instead of trying something new, return to the familiar. Given my experience earlier this year rereading The Game, Eureka Street, and two books by Walter Dean Meyers, I can vouch for its effectiveness.

Here's my list for December, which is a bit ambitious for one month, but I'm fine with the process bleeding into the early days of 2021; December is reserved for rereading, but it's a great activity at any time.

• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Lost Cat by Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton (illustrations)
• First and Last Notebooks by Simone Weil
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• Idiot America by Charles Pierce
• The Football Ramble by Marcus Speller, Luke Moore, Pete Donaldson, and Jim Campbell