1. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy — ✔️
2. Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin — ✔️
3. The Wager, by David Grann — ✔️
4. Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges — ✔️
5. on earth we're briefly gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong — ✔️
6. Babel, by R. F. Kuang — ✔️
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — ✔️
8. Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️ [8 thru 19 read over a 3 mo period]
9. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
10. The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
11. Sodom & Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
12. The Prisoner, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
13. The Fugitive, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
14. Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
15. Proust's Way, by Roger Shattuck; — ✔️
16. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time, by Patrick Alexander — ✔️
17. Lost Time, by Józef Czapski; — ✔️
18. Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf; — ✔️
19. Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer; — ✔️
20. In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes — ✔️
21. A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes — ✔️
22. The Enchanters, by James Ellroy — ✔️
23. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, by William H. Gass — ✔️
To The Ends of The Earth (trilogy):
24. Rites of Passage — ✔️
25. Close Quarters — ✔️
26. Fire Down Below — ✔️
—by William Golding
27. The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker — ✔️
28. A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel — ✔️
29. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver — ✔️
30. The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal — ✔️
31. The Saga of Icelanders, trans by various; intro: Jane Smiley — ✔️
32. The Popol Vuh, transl/edited by Lewis Spence — ✔️
33. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, by Douglas Adams (5 novels + shrt story, omnibus) — ✔️
34. The Mabinogion, transl by Jeffrey Gantz — ✔️
35. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, transl by Simon Armitage — ✔️
[+ Tolkien's translation, read in tandem ]
36. The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, transl by Royall Tyler — ✔️
37. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong (Penguin, Martin Palmer transl) — ✔️
38. The Landmark Anabasis, by Xenophon — ✔️
39. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, from Sumer, transl by Wolkstein & Kramer — ✔️
40. The Oxford History of the Biblical World — ✔️
41. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders — ✔️
42. The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
43. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*[The House of the Dead](https://booksrun.com/9781420966312-the-house-of-the-dead)* (1862)
*[Notes from Underground](https://booksrun.com/9780679734529-notes-from-underground-vintage-classics-reprint-edition)* (1864) — ✔️
*[The Gambler](https://booksrun.com/9780140455090-the-gambler-and-other-stories-penguin-classics-1st-edition)* (1866)
44. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — ✔️
45. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert — ✔️
46. The Human Comedy, by Honoré de Balzac, NYRB transl — ✔️
47. The Decameron, by Boccaccio, Rebhorn transl — ✔️
48. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
49. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville — ✔️
50. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by Chateaubriand, Penguin Classics — ✔️
51. The Works of Horace: The Art of Poetry, Odes, Epodes, Satires And Epistles — ✔️?
52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce — ✔️
53. Ulysses, by James Joyce — ✔️
54. Ulysses Annotated, Gifford/Seidman — ✔️
55. The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, by Patrick Hastings — ✔️
56. The Táin, from the Irish epic Táin B ó Cuailnge (Thomas Kinsella, transl) — ✔️
57. Cervantes's Don Quixote, by Roberto González Echevarría, Open Yale Courses — ✔️
58. Lectures on Don Quixote, by Nabokov (k) — ✔️
59. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Edith Grossman, transl) — ✔️
60. Imperial Spain, by J. H. Elliott — ✔️
61. Exemplary Stories, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — ✔️
62. The Golden Bough, by James Frazier
63. The Journey to the West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 1
64. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 2
65. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 3
66. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 4
67. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 1
68. Hamnet, by
69. James, by Percival Everett
70. Description of Greece, by Pausatanias (K)
71. Complete Works, by David Hume (K)
72. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (K)
73. Amadis de Gaul, by transl by Cadell and Davies (K)
74. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto (K)
75. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach
76. Theory of Literature, by Paul H Fry
77. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann (K)
78. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (K)
79. Doctor Faustus,by Thomas Mann
80. Tolstoy's or Doestoevsky, an Essay in the Old Criticism, by George Steiner (K)
81. Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabakov (K)
82. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
83. Crime and Punishment  (1866)
84. The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
85. The Idiot (1869)
86. Demons (1872)
87. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (K)
88. Pot Luck, by Emile Zola
89. Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
90. Inferno, by Dante, Hollander transl
91. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander transl
92. Paradisio, by Dante, Hollander transl
93. Vita Nuova, by Dante, Muss transl
94. Psalms, Torah, JPS translation
95. Satyricon, by Petronius
96. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius — (finish)
97. The Nature of Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien
98. The Silmarrilion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
99. Lempriere's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk
100. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
101. Unknown Masterpieces, edited by Edwin Frank
102. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte
103. The Comforts of the Abyss, by Philip Schultz;
failure, by Philip Schultz;
104. best poetry 2023
[+20 poems each by select list of twenty poets: ]
105. Free Indirect, by Timothy Bowes
106. Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks
107. The Emigrants, by W. G. Sebald
108. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
109. Macunaíma (The Hero With No Character), by Mário de Andrade
110. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan
111. Epitaph for a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis
112. Three Major Plays, by Lope de Vega, Edwards transl
113. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (K)
114. 10:04, by Ben Lerner
115. The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
116. A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
117. Histories Grecques, by Maurice Sartre — (finish)
118. Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
119. The Metamorphoses, Ovid, Miller transl
120. Stay True, by Hua Hsu
121. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
122. Touch, by Elmore Leonard
123. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
124. The Somme, by Peter Hart
125. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (K)
126. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama
127. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
128. Truth and Repair, by Judith Herman, MD
129. The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
130. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (K)
131. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov — (finish)
132. Blindness, by Jose Saramago
133. My Antonia, by Willa Cather — (finish)
134. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
135. The Night Watchmen, by Louise Erdrich
136. The Trial by Franz Kafka
137. Americanah, by Chimamanda
138. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
139. Middlemarch by George Eliot
140. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
141. The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple — (finish)
142. The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
+ The Sense of Style, by Stephen Pinker
143. Weekends at Bellevue, by Julie Holland, M.D.
144. When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball
145. Looking for Spinoza, by Antonio R. Damasio
146. A Book Forged in Hell, by Steve Nadler
147. The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman
148. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood (K)
149. The Landmark Campaigns of Julius Caesar, edited by Robert Strassler (finish)
150. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (finish)
151. A New World Begins, by Jeremy D. (K)
152. Death in Venice and other stories, by Thomas Mann (K)
153. Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin (K)
154. The Ten Thousand Things, by Marina Dermoût (K)
155. The Outsider, by Stephen King (K)
156. The Caprices, by Silvana Murray (K)
157. Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (K)
158. The Corrections, by William H. Gass
159. God's Chinese Son, by Jonathan Spence (finish)
160. Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (finish)
161. The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion
162. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K)
163. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander translation (FINISH)
164. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, nyrb (K)
165. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
166. Absolam, Absolam! , by William Faulkner
167. Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams
168. The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow
169. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
170. The Iliad by Homer
171. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri [re-READ]
172. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
173. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
174. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
175. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
176. The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
177. The Ramayana by Valmiki
178. Hiroshima by John Hersey [re-READ]
179. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
180. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
181. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
182. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
183. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
184. The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
185. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
186. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
187. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
188. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
189. The Dirty Dust, by Máirtin O Cadhain
190. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
191. Poems of Wang Wei
192. Satires of Juvenal
193. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
194. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
195. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
196. The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White
197. The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
198. Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
199. One Thousand and One Nights
200. Njal's Saga
201. The Outermost House, by Henry Beston
202. The Heptameron, by Marguerite de Navarre
203. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
204. The Conference of the Birds, by Attar
205. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
206. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
207. Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke
208. Krieg, by Ludwig Renn
209. The Tale of the Heike
210. Antigone, by Sophocles
211. Poems of Du Fu
212. The Scholars, by Wu Jingzi
213. Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
214. Poems of Catullus
215. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
216. The Aeneid, by Virgil
217. Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
218. A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman
219. The Mahabharata, by Vyasa
220. Stories of Lu Xun
221. A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
222. Odes of Catullus
223. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (?)
224. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
225. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
226. The Secret History by Procopius
227. Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
228. The Republic, by Plato
229. The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth
230. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
231. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
232. Roughing It, by Mark Twain
233. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuegin
234. Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell
235. Confessions of Saint Augustine
236. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto
237. The First Folio of William Shakespeare
238. Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth, Samuel Tavlor Coleridge
239. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
240. The Demons, by Heimito von Doderer
241. On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
242. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
243. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
244. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
245. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
246. The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (READ Landmark edition)
247. On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius
248. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
249. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
250. The Poetic Edda
251. Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus [I READ IT]
252. North and South, by Elizabeth Bishop
253. Germinal, by Émile Zola
254. The Water Margin, by Shi Nai'an
255. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott
256. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
257. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
258. The Last of the Just, by André (Gide?)
259. A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
260. Hindoo Holiday, by J.R. Ackerley
261. The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honoré de Balzac
262. Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm
263. On The Yard, by Malcolm Braly
264. The Radiance of the King, by Camara Laye
265. The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
266. Classic Crimes, by William Roughead
267. The Golovlyov Family, by Shchedrin
268. The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger
269. The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal
270. The Pilgrims Hawk, by Glenway Wescott
271. The Honey and the Hemlock, by Eli Sagan
272. The Yellow Cross, by Rene Meis
273. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (K)
274. Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd (K)
275. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Apple)
276. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Apple)
277. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Apple)
278. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (Apple)
279. A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (Apple)
280. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Conner (Apple)
281. Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Apple)
282. Gulag, by Anne Applebaum (Apple)
283. Not My Father's Son, by Alan Cumming (Apple)
284. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker (Apple)
285. Phantom on the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet
286. The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books) 
287. Arabian Nights (Collins Classics)
288. Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham 
290. **[A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems \(New York Review Books: Poets\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681376482/?coliid=I2EBO8YA37JBV9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
291. **[Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad \(Dover Thrift Editions: Black History\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486780619/?coliid=I3I1FJOWHQUZET&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
292. **[Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486294501/?coliid=IQAYK7XLZTI9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
293. **[Prometheus Bound \(Dover Thrift Editions: Plays\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486287629/?coliid=I21KASZ25JTE0P&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
294. **[Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486401642/?coliid=I159SDXGA6H6K9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
295. **[Death in Venice \(Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486287149/?coliid=IQ3SJFQNRIR9O&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
296. **[Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers \(Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486499944/?coliid=I2RAAZITHEL3DZ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
297. **[The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593712943/?coliid=I3FL81XR92U4L5&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)** by Olga Tokarczuk
298. **[A High Wind in Jamaica](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KN3KDS/?coliid=I1UTCVSN0YR0FZ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
299. **[The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345807146/?coliid=I1T7IREU8FS8D&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
300. **[Proust on Art and Literature](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0786704543/?coliid=I2E7PRNVEMMPH9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
301. **[On Reading \(On Series\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1843916169/?coliid=I3HGY1VY8RJQVA&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
302. **[Penguin Classics Against Sainte Beuve And Other Essays](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140444971/?coliid=I2ZD5BW0JZ8UUK&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
303. **[A Room With a View \(Annotated\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHL9TKY6/?coliid=IXGFO37J66U68&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
304. **[The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008J4RP5C/?coliid=I3FVODFXT8R3JD&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
305. **[The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140444254/?coliid=I3L9HAA841YSFQ&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
306. **[The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Seventh Edition \(Penguin Classics\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141197315/?coliid=I29E8DFWWY7ILN&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
307. **[The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061626007/?coliid=IOUNJCS4PFTPL&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
308. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by François-René de Chateaubriand
309. [Monsieur Proust \(New York Review Books Classics\)by Céleste Albaret, Barbara Bray](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590170598/?coliid=I2OJKZJ3FDUCEW&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
310. The Immoralist (Penguin Classics), by Andre Gide, David Watson

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