How zombie dystopian lit (and a pandemic) helped me finally get over New York

2020 in books I finally got around to reading (Part I)

I began keeping a list of what I read in 2011, when, thanks to the plenitude of the New York Public Library and the quotidian rite of uninterrupted time in the form of long subway commutes, I resumed the habit of reading as I had as a child - constantly and feverishly and unabashedly. Relieved of the chore of assigned reading for the first time in ten y…