Reading
What I’ve been reading (tracked since 10/30/19).
2026
- 06/05/26, William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- 05/09/26, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- 05/05/26, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 04/18/26, Pip Adam, Audition
- 04/12/26, Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson)
- 03/29/26, W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
- 03/25/26, Rodrigo Fresán, Melvill
- 03/23/26, Katie Kitamura, Audition
- 03/18/26, George Eliot, Middlemarch (with L, started at beginning of year)
- 03/08/26, George Saunders, Vigil
- 02/28/26, Natan Last, Across the Universe
- 02/22/26, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (+ Bartleby 2/23)
- 02/10/26, James Joyce, Dubliners
- 02/03/26, Homer, The Iliad (trans. Emily Wilson)
- 01/11/26, Anna Shechtman, The Riddles of the Sphinx
- 01/03/26, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
2025
- 12/26/25, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
- 12/25/25, Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
- 12/20/25, Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger
- 12/14/25, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
- 12/07/25, Nick Drnaso, Beverly
- 12/06/25, Cormac McCarthy, The Road
- 11/30/25, Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
- 11/30/25, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
- 11/29/25, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
- 11/22/25, Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
- 11/16/25, Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune
- 11/15/25, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
- 11/09/25, Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
- 10/25/25, László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
- 10/08/25, Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- 08/21/25, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
- 08/05/25, Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
- 07/27/25, S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
- 07/24/25, Brian Allen Carr, Bad Foundations
- 07/17/25, Nick Drnaso, Acting Class
- 06/29/25, Sayaka Murata, Earthlings
- 06/25/25, Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
- 06/22/25, Sayaka Murata, Vanishing World
- 06/22/25, Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
- 06/17/25, George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
- 06/08/25, Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume II
- 06/07/25, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
- 05/31/25, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
- 05/25/25, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
- 05/13/25, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
- 05/05/25, Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I
- 04/20/25, Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
- 04/06/25, Olivier Schrauwen, Sunday
- 04/03/25, Mariana Enriquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
- 03/30/25, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho
- 03/29/25, Jordan Castro, The Novelist
- 03/21/25, Mauro Javier Cárdenas, American Abductions
- 03/19/25, Oğuz Atay, Waiting for the Fear
- 03/11/25, Brett Biebel, A Mason & Dixon Companion
- 03/11/25, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- 03/01/25, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
- 02/25/25, Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC
- 02/23/25, Olivier Schrauwen, Parallel Lives
- 02/22/25, Renata Adler, Pitch Dark
- 02/17/25, Richard Stern, Golk
- 02/13/25, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
- 02/10/25, Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die
- 02/08/25, Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed
- 02/04/25, Thomas Bernhard, Three Novellas
- 02/03/25, Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
- 02/02/25, Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark
- 01/29/25, Julia Kornberg, Berlin Atomized
- 01/24/25, Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice
- 01/20/25, Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
- 01/20/25, Tove Jansson, Fair Play
- 01/17/25, Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
- 01/15/25, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
- 01/12/25, Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
- 01/03/25, Thomas Bernhard, Yes
2024
- 12/30/24, Samanta Schweblin, Fever Dream
- 12/29/24, Hisashi Kashiwai, The Kamogawa Food Detectives
- 12/27/24, Mónica Ojeda, Nefando
- 12/26/24, Atsuhiro Yoshida, Goodnight Tokyo
- 12/24/24, Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
- 12/15/24, Lisa Tuttle, My Death
- 12/13/24, Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters
- 12/01/24, Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas
- 11/26/24, Renata Adler, Speedboat
- 11/16/24, Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
- 11/13/24, Paul Beatty, The Sellout
- 11/08/24, Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
- 11/04/24, Thomas Bernhard, Woodcutters
- 11/02/24, Thomas Bernhard, Frost
- 10/27/24, Han Kang, Human Acts
- 10/22/24, Han Kang, The White Book
- 10/20/24, Han Kang, Greek Lessons
- 10/16/24, Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
- 10/09/24, David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
- 09/07/24, Jon Fosse, A Shining
- 09/07/24, José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night
- 09/04/24, Dave Eggers, The Honor of Your Presence
- 09/01/24, Jessica Anthony, The Most
- 08/19/24, László Krasznahorkai, The Last Wolf & Herman
- 08/19/24, Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
- 08/16/24, Eliot Weinberger, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
- 08/11/24, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Gretel and the Great War
- 08/09/24, Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
- 08/08/24, Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy
- 07/28/24, Fernanda Melchor, This Is Not Miami
- 07/28/24, César Aira, Festival & Game of the Worlds
- 07/11/24, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
- 07/06/24, Patrik Ouředník, Europeana
- 07/05/24, William Gaddis, Agapē Agape
- 07/04/24, William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
- 06/23/24, Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
- 06/22/24, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (with L, started at beginning of year)
- 06/01/24, Can Xue, Frontier
- 05/26/24, César Aira, The Literary Conference
- 05/25/24, Robert Coover, The Public Burning
- 05/24/24, Sven Lindqvist, “Exterminate All the Brutes”
- 05/11/24, Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
- 05/08/24, Thomas Bernhard, Correction
- 04/30/24, Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
- 04/21/24, Mauro Javier Cárdenas, Aphasia
- 04/09/24, Thomas Bernhard, The Lime Works
- 03/31/24, Helen DeWitt, Some Trick
- 03/24/24, Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles
- 03/20/24, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods
- 03/16/24, Helen DeWitt, The English Understand Wool
- 03/16/24, Michael Winkler, Grimmish
- 03/11/24, Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai
- 03/03/24, Roberto Bolaño, Nazi Literature in the Americas
- 03/03/24, Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments
- 03/03/24, Eric Chevillard, Demolishing Nisard
- 02/27/24, Jen Craig, Panthers and the Museum of Fire
- 02/23/24, Roberto Bolaño, 2666
- 02/18/24, Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing
- 01/31/24, William Gaddis, Carpenter’s Gothic
- 01/20/24, William Gaddis, The Recognitions
- 01/12/24, Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams
2023
- 12/31/23, Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart
- 12/30/23, Fran Ross, Oreo
- 12/29/23, Jeff VanderMeer, Authority
- 12/17/23, Steven Weisenburger, A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion
- 12/17/23, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
- 12/06/23, César Aira, Ghosts
- 11/05/23, Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat
- 11/04/23, Martin Riker, The Guest Lecture
- 11/02/23, Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
- 10/26/23, Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
- 10/13/23, Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold
- 10/12/23, Sosuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books
- 10/04/23, Nell Zink, The Wallcreeper
- 09/30/23, William Gaddis, J R
- 09/20/23, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance
- 09/09/23, Yuri Herrera, Ten Planets
- 09/03/23, Des Linden, Choosing to Run
- 09/02/23, Ryan Chapman, Riots I Have Known
- 08/26/23, Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
- 08/25/23, José Emilio Pacheco, Battles in the Desert
- 08/24/23, Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
- 08/20/23, John Williams, Butcher’s Crossing
- 08/19/23, Catherynne Valente, Radiance
- 08/15/23, Ted Conover, Cheap Land Colorado
- 08/12/23, Denis Johnson, Train Dreams
- 08/11/23, Oliver Roeder, Seven Games
- 08/06/23, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
- 07/16/23, Thomas Pynchon, V
- 07/15/23, César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
- 07/08/23, Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
- 07/08/23, Matt Bucher, The Belan Deck
- 07/03/23, Osamu Dazai, Early Light
- 07/01/23, Neal Stephenson, Anathem
- 06/21/23, Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
- 06/10/23, Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid
- 06/01/23, Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo
- 05/28/23, Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
- 05/25/23, César Aira, Ema, the Captive
- 05/21/23, Otessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
- 05/17/23, Fernanda Melchor, Paradais
- 05/15/23, Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
- 05/14/23, Alejandro Zambra, Chilean Poet
- 05/10/23, Nick Drnaso, Sabrina
- 05/09/23, Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
- 05/07/23, Laurent Mauvignier, The Birthday Party
- 04/30/23, Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
- 04/25/23, Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
- 04/22/23, César Aira, The Divorce
- 04/22/23, César Aira, Dinner
- 04/19/23, César Aira, Conversations
- 04/18/23, China Miéville, The City & the City
- 04/15/23, Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
- 04/09/23, Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
- 04/08/23, Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
- 04/06/23, César Aira, Fulgentius
- 04/02/23, Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss
- 04/01/23, Yuri Herrera, Three Novels
- 03/28/23, Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
- 03/24/23, César Aira, The Famous Magician
- 03/24/23, Jessica Anthony, Enter the Aardvark
- 03/19/23, Dario Diofebi, Paradise, Nevada
- 03/13/23, Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
- 03/11/23, Seishu Hase, The Boy and the Dog
- 03/04/23, Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
- 02/25/23, Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
- 02/23/23, Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police
- 02/19/23, Deb Olin Unferth, Barn 8
- 02/18/23, László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
- 02/15/23, Jenny Offill, Weather
- 02/12/23, Yuko Tsushima, Woman Running in the Mountains
- 02/10/23, Helen DeWitt, The English Understand Wool
- 02/05/23, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
- 02/05/23, Mark Haber, Reinhardt’s Garden
- 02/01/23, Ling Ma, Severance
- 01/29/23, Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
- 01/28/23, Amanda Montell, Cultish
- 01/24/23, Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman
- 01/22/23, Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
- 01/21/23, Olga Ravn, The Employees
- 01/20/23, Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
- 01/15/23, Otessa Moshfegh, Eileen
- 01/09/23, Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- 01/02/23, R.F. Kuang, Babel
2022
- 12/25/22, Don DeLillo, White Noise
- 11/19/22, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- 10/22/22, Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
- 10/16/22, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, The Organs of Sense
- 10/06/22, Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus
- 09/25/22, Adam Levin, Mount Chicago
- 09/18/22, Elif Batuman, Either/Or
- 06/25/22, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
- 05/30/22, Dennard Dayle, Everything Abridged
- 02/28/22, Elif Batuman, The Idiot
- 02/16/22, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
- 01/31/22, George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
- 01/29/22, Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
- 01/16/22, George Saunders, Pastoralia
- 01/02/22, George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
2021
- 12/29/21, Cliff Stoll, The Cuckoo’s Egg
- 11/28/21, Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun
- 11/13/21, Christian TeBordo, The Apology
- 11/12/21, Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- 11/02/21, Evan Ratliff, The Mastermind (Audiobook)
- 10/19/21, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life
- 10/05/21, Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973
- 10/03/21, Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing
- 09/27/21, Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
- 09/13/21, Donna Tartt, The Secret History
- 09/08/21, William M. Bueler, Roof of the Rockies
- 08/15/21, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- 06/02/21, Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts
- 05/22/21, Dava Sobel, Longitude
- 05/22/21, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- 04/20/21, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
- 04/04/21, George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
- 03/14/21, George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
- 03/13/21, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
- 02/27/21, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
- 02/20/21, Tom Williams, The Mimic’s Own Voice
- 02/17/21, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland
- 01/02/21, Karen Russell, Orange World
2020
- 12/24/20, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel
- 12/13/20, Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing
- 12/05/20, Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- 11/29/20, Neal Stephenson, Some Remarks
- 11/26/20, Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings
- 11/19/20, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City
- 11/15/20, Jessica Anthony, The Convalescent
- 11/11/20, Mark Obmascik, Halfway to Heaven
- 11/08/20, Christian TeBordo, Ghost Engine
- 11/04/20, Mark Scott-Nash, Colorado 14er Disasters
- 11/02/20, Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind
- 10/30/20, Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
- 10/19/20, Christian TeBordo, Toughlahoma
- 10/18/20, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
- 10/12/20, Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong
- 04/30/20, Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- 04/12/20, Chris Lear, Running with the Buffaloes
- 04/07/20, Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own
- 03/14/20, Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
- 02/19/20, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
- 02/15/20, Andrew Marantz, Antisocial
- 02/09/20, Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
- 02/05/20, Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
- 02/02/20, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate
- 01/11/20, Elif Batuman, The Possessed
- 01/03/20, Neal Stephenson, Reamde
2019
- 12/26/19, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
- 12/24/19, Michael Pollan, Cooked
- 11/23/19, David Epstein, Range
- 11/18/19, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
- 11/15/19, Emily Nussbaum, I Like To Watch
- 11/09/19, Adharanand Finn, The Rise of the Ultra Runners
- 11/06/19, Robin Sloan, Sourdough: A Novel
- 11/01/19, Elif Batuman, The Idiot
- 10/30/19, Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running