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My 2024-5 reading list

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. Histories Grecques, by Maurice Sartre — (finish)
40. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius — (finish)
41. The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk
42. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders
43. Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabakov (K)
44. The House of the Dead or, prison life in Siberia, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (+K)
45. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
46. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
47. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
48. The Nature of Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien
49. The Silmarrilion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
50. Lempriere's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk
51. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
52. Unknown Masterpieces, edited by Edwin Frank
53. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte
54. The Comforts of the Abyss, by Philip Schultz;
failure, by Philip Schultz;
55. best poetry 2023
[+20 poems each by select list of twenty poets: ]
56. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
57. Free Indirect, by Timothy Bowes
58. Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks
59. The Emigrants, by W. G. Sebald
60. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Edith Grossman, transl) (K)
61. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62. Macunaíma (The Hero With No Character), by Mário de Andrade
63. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan
64. Epitaph for a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis
65. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (K)
66. 10:04, by Ben Lerner
67. The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
68. A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
69. Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
70. Stay True, by Hua Hsu
71. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
72. Touch, by Elmore Leonard
73. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
74. The Somme, by Peter Hart
75. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (K)
76. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama
77. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
78. Truth and Repair, by Judith Herman, MD
79. The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
80. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (K)
81. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov — (finish)
82. Blindness, by Jose Saramago
83. My Antonia, by Willa Cather — (finish)
84. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
85. The Night Watchmen, by Louise Erdrich
86. The Trial by Franz Kafka
87. Americanah, by Chimamanda
88. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
89. Middlemarch by George Eliot
90. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
91. The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple — (finish)
92. The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
+ The Sense of Style, by Stephen Pinker
93. Weekends at Bellevue, by Julie Holland, M.D.
94. When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball
95. Looking for Spinoza, by Antonio R. Damasio
96. (choose one from my guides to Spinoza)
97. A Book Forged in Hell, by Steve Nadler
98. The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman
99. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood (K)
100. The Landmark Campaigns of Julius Caesar, edited by Robert Strassler (finish)
101. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (finish)
102. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (K)
103. A New World Begins, by Jeremy D. (K)
104. Death in Venice and other stories, by Thomas Mann (K)
105. Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin (K)
106. The Ten Thousand Things, by Marina Dermoût (K)
107. The Outsider, by Stephen King (K)
108. The Caprices, by Silvana Murray (K)
109. Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (K)
110. Ulysses, by James Joyce (K)
111. The Corrections, by William H. Gass
112. God's Chinese Son, by Jonathan Spence (finish)
113. Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (finish)
114. **[The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion]()**
115. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K)
116. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander translation (FINISH)
117. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, nyrb (K)
118. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
119. Absolam, Absolam! , by William Faulkner
120. Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams
121. The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow
122. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
123. The Iliad by Homer
124. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri [re-READ]
125. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
126. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
127. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
128. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
129. The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
130. The Ramayana by Valmiki
131. Hiroshima by John Hersey [re-READ]
132. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
133. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
134. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
135. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
136. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
137. The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
138. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
139. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
140. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
141. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
142. The Dirty Dust, by Máirtin O Cadhain
143. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
144. Poems of Wang Wei
145. Satires of Juvenal
146. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
147. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
148. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
149. The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White
150. The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
151. Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
152. One Thousand and One Nights
153. Njal's Saga
154. The Outermost House, by Henry Beston
155. The Heptameron, by Marguerite de Navarre
156. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
157. The Conference of the Birds, by Attar
158. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
159. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
160. Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke
161. Krieg, by Ludwig Renn
162. The Tale of the Heike
163. Antigone, by Sophocles
164. Poems of Du Fu
165. The Scholars, by Wu Jingzi
166. Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
167. Poems of Catullus
168. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
169. The Aeneid, by Virgil
170. Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
171. A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman
172. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
173. The Mahabharata, by Vyasa
174. Stories of Lu Xun
175. A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
176. Odes of Catullus
177. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (?)
178. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
179. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
180. The Secret History by Procopius
181. Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
182. The Republic, by Plato
183. The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth
184. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
185. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
186. Roughing It, by Mark Twain
187. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuegin
188. Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell
189. Confessions of Saint Augustine
190. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto
191. The First Folio of William Shakespeare
192. Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth, Samuel Tavlor Coleridge
193. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
194. The Demons, by Heimito von Doderer
195. On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
196. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
197. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
198. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
199. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
200. The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (READ Landmark edition)
201. On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius
202. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
203. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
204. The Poetic Edda
205. Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus [I READ IT]
206. North and South, by Elizabeth Bishop
207. Germinal, by Émile Zola
208. The Water Margin, by Shi Nai'an
209. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott
210. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
211. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
212. The Last of the Just, by André
213. A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
214. Hindoo Holiday, by J.R. Ackerley
215. The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honoré de Balzac
216. Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm
217. On The Yard, by Malcolm Braly
218. The Radiance of the King, by Camara Laye
219. The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
220. Classic Crimes, by William Roughead
221. The Golovlyov Family, by Shchedrin
222. The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger
223. The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal
224. The Pilgrims Hawk, by Glenway Wescott
225. The Honey and the Hemlock, by Eli Sagan
226. The Yellow Cross, by Rene Meis
227. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (K)
228. Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd (K)
229. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Apple)
230. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Apple)
231. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Apple)
232. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (Apple)
233. A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (Apple)
234. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Conner (Apple)
235. Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Apple)
236. Gulag, by Anne Applebaum (Apple)
237. Not My Father's Son, by Alan Cumming (Apple)
238. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker (Apple)
239. Phantom on the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet
240. The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books) 
241. Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) 
242. Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham [Undine - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham]()
243. **[The Journey to the West, Books 1, 2 and 3: Three Classic Stories in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin**
244. **[A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems \(New York Review Books: Poets\)]\)'**
245. **[Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad \(Dover Thrift Editions: Black History\)]()**
246. **[Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions\)]()**
247. **[Prometheus Bound \(Dover Thrift Editions: Plays\)]()**
248. **[Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology \(Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry\)]()**
249. **[Death in Venice \(Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels\)]()**
250. **[Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers \(Dover Thrift Editions: Short Stories\)]()**
251. **[The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story]()** by Olga Tokarczuk
252. **[A High Wind in Jamaica]()**
253. **[The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures]()**
254. **[Proust on Art and Literature]()**
255. **[On Reading \(On Series\)]()**
256. **[Penguin Classics Against Sainte Beuve And Other Essays]()**
257. **[A Room With a View \(Annotated\)]()**
258. **[The Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition]()**
259. **[The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus]()**
260. **[The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Seventh Edition \(Penguin Classics\)]()**
261. **[The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume]()**
262. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by François-René de Chateaubriand
263. [Monsieur Proust \(New York Review Books Classics\)by Céleste Albaret, Barbara Bray]()
264. The Immoralist (Penguin Classics), by Andre Gide, David Watson
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