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I have read ✨ 10 books ✨ so far this year.

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SAINT SEBASTIAN'S ABYSS

Mark Haber

WHAT HAVE YOU LEFT BEHIND?

Bushra Al-Maqtari

THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (BICENTENNIAL EDITION)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I have read 319 books since I started keeping track of them digitally.

2025

Fredrik Backman

THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT LANGUAGE

Umberto Eco

REINHARDT'S GARDEN

Mark Haber

NEW SELECTED POEMS OF W.S. GRAHAM

W.S. Graham

SET MY HEART ON FIRE

Izumi Suzuki

Gina Apostol

HOW TO SAY BABYLON: A MEMOIR

Safiya Sinclair

STRUCTURALISM AND SEMIOTICS

Terence Hawkes

A FROLIC OF HIS OWN

William Gaddis

Jean Baudrillard

2024

Saadat Hasan Manto

PROPAGANDA: THE FORMATION OF MEN'S ATTITUDES

Jacques Ellul

Sarah Rose Etter

Albert Cossery

Philip K. Dick

Kaveh Akbar

Jorge Luis Borges

Munir Hachemi

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Charles Dickens

THE ROMANCE OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM

Vivian Gornick

Maylis De Kerangal

Olga Ravn

SEEING LIKE A STATE

James C. Scott

Margaret Atwood

GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Max Porter

THE LIVES OF OTHERS

Neel Mukherjee

A VERY EASY DEATH

Simone De Beauvoir

WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS

Catherine Newman

THE DISPOSSESSED

Ursula K. Le Guin

GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE

Meghan O'Gieblyn

Terry Bisson

Hye-Young Pyun

Han Kang

NONREQUIRED READING

Wisława Szymborska

Benjamin Labatut

HIS MASTER'S VOICE

Stanislaw Lem

Judith Herrin

2023

2022

HAVING AND BEING HAD

Eula Biss

A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING

Eimear McBride

SAGA, VOLUME 10

Brian K. Vaughan

DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS

Kate Beaton

WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD

Benjamin Labatut

Neal Stephenson

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE

Shirley Jackson

A COUNTRY OF GHOSTS

Margaret Killjoy

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Erich Maria Remarque

Edward L. Bernays

Stanislaw Lem

HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES

Carmen Maria Machado

Noam Chomsky

THE MORNING STAR

Karl Ove Knausgaard

DECLINE AND FALL

Evelyn Waugh

THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD

Paul Tremblay

Honoré de Balzac

EXERCISES IN STYLE

Raymond Queneau

THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED

John Green

FOREVER SOMEONE ELSE

Fernando Pessoa

Geoffrey West

Tomás Q. Morín

Ralph Ellison

Joseph Conrad

CONSIDER THE LOBSTER

David Foster Wallace

BEYOND THE BEYOND

Poul Anderson

AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES

Judith Schalansky

LONG LIVE THE POST HORN!

Vigdis Hjorth

Gwendolyn Brooks

Thomas Pynchon

DANCE THE EAGLE TO SLEEP

Marge Piercy

HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE

Andreas Malm

BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF

Marlon James

Frans G. Bengtsson

2021

THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS

Langston Hughes

HOMAGE TO CATALONIA (COLLINS CLASSICS)

George Orwell

BREAKING THINGS AT WORK

Gavin Mueller

DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD

Olga Tokarczuk

THE BOOK OF TEN NIGHTS AND A NIGHT: ELEVEN STORIES

John Barth

John Berger

THE CYBERIAD: FABLES FOR THE CYBERNETIC AGE

Stanisław Lem

A NATION OF WOMEN: AN EARLY FEMINIST SPEAKS OUT

Luisa Capetillo

THE GLASS HOTEL

Emily St. John Mandel

Laurent Binet

ANARCHIST COMMUNISM

Pyotr Kropotkin

BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN LABOR

Steven Greenhouse

Thomas More

THE SOUTHERN QUESTION

Antonio Gramsci

THE PRESENT AGE: ON THE DEATH OF REBELLION

Søren Kierkegaard

THE ART OF ASKING YOUR BOSS FOR A RAISE

Georges Perec

THE CITY & THE CITY

China Miéville

FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD

Ahmed Saadawi

Sinclair Lewis

NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Frederick Douglass

Stanisław Lem

FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN

Terry Bisson

Zora Neale Hurston

LIFE: A USER'S MANUAL

Georges Perec

Colum McCann

Don DeLillo

PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE

Richard M. Rorty

2020

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: THE EPIC STORY OF AMERICA'S GREAT MIGRATION

Isabel Wilkerson

SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS

Allie Brosh

I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME

Per Petterson

CAPITAL IS DEAD. IS THIS SOMETHING WORSE?

McKenzie Wark

Milan Kundera

MIND OF MY MIND

Octavia E. Butler

James Bridle

Jack Vance

SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION

Jean Baudrillard

THE GILDA STORIES

Jewelle L. Gómez

THE FIRE NEXT TIME

James Baldwin

Joseph Heller

Alan Moore

Richard Wright

Ovid

Blake Crouch

COMMODIFY YOUR DISSENT: SALVOS FROM THE BAFFLER

Thomas Frank

Thomas Pynchon

THE STAR DIARIES: FURTHER REMINISCENCES OF IJON TICHY

Stanisław Lem

SHARK DRUNK: THE ART OF CATCHING A LARGE SHARK FROM A TINY RUBBER DINGHY IN A BIG OCEAN

Morten A. Strøksnes

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

Ray Bradbury

Aldous Huxley

FIRE THE BASTARDS!

Jack Green

THE GULF WAR DID NOT TAKE PLACE

Jean Baudrillard

PRIMEVAL AND OTHER TIMES

Olga Tokarczuk

WHO FEARS DEATH (WHO FEARS DEATH, #1)

Nnedi Okorafor

THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER WRITINGS

T.S. Eliot

THE RECOGNITIONS

William Gaddis

EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL

Hannah Arendt

2019

THE GLASS MENAGERIE

Tennessee Williams

THE GHOST IN THE SHELL VOLUME 1.5

Shirow Masamune

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Jonathan Swift

NORTHLANDERS BOOK 2: THE ICELANDIC SAGA (NORTHLANDERS, BOOK 2)

Brian Wood

BILLY BUDD, SAILOR

Herman Melville

Andrew Sean Greer

SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM

Joan Didion

UNDER THE GLACIER

Halldór Laxness

Olga Tokarczuk

Stanisław Lem

THE ALEPH AND OTHER STORIES

Jorge Luis Borges

Naomi Alderman

2018

FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE (FOUNDATION #2)

Isaac Asimov

Andrew Holleran

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES

John Kennedy Toole

A COOL MILLION AND THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL: TWO NOVELS

Nathanael West

AUTOMATING INEQUALITY: HOW HIGH-TECH TOOLS PROFILE, POLICE, AND PUNISH THE POOR

Virginia Eubanks

THE GRID: ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A NEW ERA

Gretchen Bakke

BROAD BAND: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO MADE THE INTERNET

Claire L. Evans

STORIES OF YOUR LIFE AND OTHERS

Ted Chiang

PIERRE: OR THE AMBIGUITIES

Herman Melville

THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

Michel Houellebecq

SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

Guy Debord

THE ART OF THE NOVEL

Milan Kundera

2017

SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD (ENDER’S SAGA, #2)

Orson Scott Card

NORTHLANDERS BOOK 1: THE ANGLO-SAXON SAGA (NORTHLANDERS, BOOK 1)

Brian Wood

Bolesław Prus

Aziz Ansari

ENDER'S GAME (ENDER'S SAGA, #1)

Orson Scott Card

ORYX AND CRAKE (MADDADDAM, #1)

Margaret Atwood

Isaac Asimov

LETTER 44, VOLUME 4: SAVIORS

Charles Soule

LETTER 44, VOLUME 3: DARK MATTER

Charles Soule

ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Timothy Snyder

THE STARS, LIKE DUST (GALACTIC EMPIRE, #1)

Isaac Asimov

OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE SECRET INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM THAT BROUGHT NAZI SCIENTISTS TO AMERICA

Annie Jacobsen

CONQUEST OF THE USELESS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE MAKING OF FITZCARRALDO

Werner Herzog

Blake Crouch

PARADISE LOST & PARADISE REGAINED

John Milton

ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY

Virginia Woolf

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE (WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE, #1)

Joseph Fink

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

J.M. Coetzee

MAKING SENSE OF GOD: AN INVITATION TO THE SKEPTICAL

Timothy J. Keller

OF MICE AND MEN

John Steinbeck

JACKSONLAND: PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON, CHEROKEE CHIEF JOHN ROSS, AND A GREAT AMERICAN LAND GRAB

Steve Inskeep

2016

THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS

Michel Faber

David McCullough

MAGIC AND LOSS: THE INTERNET AS ART

Virginia Heffernan

THE BIG SHORT: INSIDE THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE

Michael Lewis

David Mitchell

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

Walter M. Miller Jr.

FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT

Michael Lewis

THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY

Flannery O'Connor

Don DeLillo

Hilary Mantel

THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE

Philip K. Dick

DISRUPTED: MY MISADVENTURE IN THE START-UP BUBBLE

Dan Lyons

John Barth

Allen B. Downey

TECHNOPOLY: THE SURRENDER OF CULTURE TO TECHNOLOGY

Neil Postman

Chuck Palahniuk

SOMETHING HAPPENED

Joseph Heller

THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE: WHY SO MANY PREDICTIONS FAIL - BUT SOME DON'T

Nate Silver

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN

Colum McCann

Stanisław Wyspiański

William Gaddis

2015

IN THE LAND OF INVENTED LANGUAGES: ADVENTURES IN LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY, MADNESS, AND GENIUS

Arika Okrent

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Thomas Harris

David Foster Wallace

THE DALKEY ARCHIVE

Flann O'Brien

FOUNDATION (FOUNDATION, #1)

Isaac Asimov

A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Kurt Vonnegut

A SCANNER DARKLY

Philip K. Dick

Jonathan Franzen

TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

Mitch Albom

THE SENSE OF AN ENDING

Julian Barnes

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Oscar Wilde

2014

THE CRISIS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: A RESPONSE

Jürgen Habermas

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

WOLF IN WHITE VAN

John Darnielle

Charles Dickens

HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR

H.P. Lovecraft

Thomas Pynchon

LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE

John Barth

A GAME OF THRONES (A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, #1)

George R.R. Martin

John Steinbeck

A HANDFUL OF DUST

Evelyn Waugh

THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE

Herman Melville

Alan Moore

THE HOBBIT, OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN

J.R.R. Tolkien

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

Jules Verne

BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS

Frank Miller

J.J. Abrams

SO LONG A LETTER

Mariama Bâ

POLITICAL THEOLOGY: FOUR CHAPTERS ON THE CONCEPT OF SOVEREIGNTY

Carl Schmitt

L'AMOUR DURE TROIS ANS (MARC MARRONNIER, #3)

Frédéric Beigbeder

Snorri Sturluson

SAD LITTLE BREATHING MACHINE

Matthea Harvey

William Shakespeare

THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION AND HEAVEN AND HELL

Aldous Huxley

BLOOD MERIDIAN, OR THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST

Cormac McCarthy

Jack Kerouac

EAT, PRAY, LOVE

Elizabeth Gilbert

Don DeLillo

CONTINGENCY, IRONY, AND SOLIDARITY

Richard M. Rorty

SOMETHING FRESH (BLANDINGS CASTLE, #1)

P.G. Wodehouse

VISIONS OF POLITICS, VOLUME I: REGARDING METHOD

Quentin Skinner

JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE

Iris Marion Young

AERIAL LIFE: SPACES, MOBILITIES, AFFECTS

Peter Adey

SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE: ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Pierre Clastres

TWO CHEERS FOR ANARCHISM: SIX EASY PIECES ON AUTONOMY, DIGNITY AND MEANINGFUL WORK AND PLAY

James C. Scott

2013

ON THE INTERNET

Hubert L. Dreyfus

THE RAILWAY JOURNEY: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND PERCEPTION OF TIME AND SPACE

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

WAR IN THE AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES

Manuel DeLanda

TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC: THE TRIUMPH OF THE IRRATIONAL

Richard Stivers

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI'S THE WHALESTOE LETTERS

Mark Z. Danielewski

WINDOWS ON THE WORLD

Frédéric Beigbeder

NOUVELLES SOUS ECSTASY

Frédéric Beigbeder

LIVES IN TRANSLATION: BILINGUAL WRITERS ON IDENTITY AND CREATIVITY

Isabelle De Courtivron

MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: FACTS AND POLICIES

Guus Extra

EN ATTENDANT GODOT

Samuel Beckett

THE ABOLITION OF MAN

C.S. Lewis

SIX PLAYS OF STRINDBERG: THE FATHER / MISS JULIE / THE STRONGER / EASTER / A DREAM PLAY / THE GHOST SONATA

August Strindberg

DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: THE BIRTH OF THE PRISON

Michel Foucault

THE CRYING OF LOT 49

Thomas Pynchon

THE LESSON OF THE MASTER

Henry James

ILL SEEN ILL SAID

Samuel Beckett

THE CORRECTIONS

Jonathan Franzen

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH: A NEW TRANSLATION

Anonymous

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

Dave Eggers

THE NECESSARY MARRIAGE

Dumitru Țepeneag

Vladimir Nabokov

David Foster Wallace

CATCH-22 (CATCH-22, #1)

Joseph Heller

Philip Roth

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

Thomas Pynchon

THE HUMAN STAIN (THE AMERICAN TRILOGY, #3)

Philip Roth

EXILE AND THE KINGDOM

Albert Camus

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD

E.M. Forster

ONLY REVOLUTIONS

Mark Z. Danielewski

CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

Sigmund Freud

THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY

Erik Larson

WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR

Max Brooks

IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? TRANSLATION AND THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING

David Bellos

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH: PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN THE AGE OF SHOW BUSINESS

Neil Postman

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (THE SPACE TRILOGY, #1)

C.S. Lewis

SUM: FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES

David Eagleman

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Karl Marx

THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL

William Blake

Samuel Beckett

Aldous Huxley

THIS IS WATER: SOME THOUGHTS, DELIVERED ON A SIGNIFICANT OCCASION, ABOUT LIVING A COMPASSIONATE LIFE

David Foster Wallace

HOUSE OF LEAVES

Mark Z. Danielewski

Darren Aronofsky

2012

MOBY-DICK OR, THE WHALE

Herman Melville

Don DeLillo

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

William Shakespeare

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

William Shakespeare

Kurt Vonnegut

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Tim O'Brien

FEAR AND TREMBLING

Søren Kierkegaard

POINT COUNTER POINT

Aldous Huxley

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paulo Coelho

Ray Bradbury

Cormac McCarthy

LORD OF THE FLIES

William Golding

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Aldous Huxley

Kurt Vonnegut

George Orwell

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

J.D. Salinger