There are two lists here, one is a list of 50 favourite books and the other is a list of all the books I’ve read since 2020. These lists are really just for me, and I’m not sure why I feel the need to post them here. They are coordinates plotted on an illegible map, ever-expanding and leading nowhere.

Favourite Books

  • In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

  • Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

  • Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

  • Hadji Murat - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Matsuo Bashō

  • Antosha & Levitasha: The Shared Lives of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan - Serge Gregory

  • Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon

  • Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu

  • Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

  • The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

  • All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

  • Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

  • Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West

  • The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The Divine Comedy - Dante

  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

  • The Iliad - Homer

  • The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

  • As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • The Outermost House - Henry Beston

  • Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth

  • Underworld - Don DeLillo

  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

  • Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Dandelions - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Arcadia - Tom Stoppard

  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis

  • Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard

  • Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

  • To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

  • The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

  • The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer

  • The Passenger / Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy

  • Demons - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

  • Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

  • The Peregrine - J. A. Baker

  • Little, Big - John Crowley

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol

  • Macbeth - William Shakespeare

  • Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

  • Sonnets - William Shakespeare

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2026

  • Nostalgia - Mircea Cărtărescu

  • Coriolanus* - William Shakespeare

  • The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories - Don DeLillo

  • Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare

  • In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan

  • Pericles - William Shakespeare

  • Sweet Days of Discipline - Fleur Jaeggy

  • Cymbeline - William Shakespeare

  • Train Dreams - Denis Johnson

  • The Winter‘s Tale - William Shakespeare

  • The Dream Life of Balso Snell - Nathanael West

  • The Tempest - William Shakespeare

  • A Cool Million - Nathanael West

  • King Henry VIII - William Shakespeare

  • Venus and Adonis - William Shakespeare

  • Lucrece - William Shakespeare

  • Sonnets - William Shakespeare

  • A Lover‘s Complaint - William Shakespeare

  • The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare

  • The Phoenix and Turtle - William Shakespeare

  • The Complete Poems for Christopher Robin - A. A. Milne

  • Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne

  • The House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne

  • The Wind in the Willows* - Kenneth Grahame

  • Antosha & Levitasha: The Shared Lives of Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan - Serge Gregory

  • Teaching a Stone to Talk - Annie Dillard

  • Wittgenstein’s Nephew - Thomas Bernhard

  • Woodcutters - Thomas Bernhard

  • Arcadia - Tom Stoppard

  • Plays - Anton Chekhov

  • Small Fry & other stories - Anton Chekhov

  • Shadow Ticket - Thomas Pynchon

  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis

2025

  • The Cloudspotter’s Guide - Gavin Pretor-Pinney

  • King Henry IV Parts I & II - William Shakespeare

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Matsuo Bashō

  • King Henry V - William Shakespeare

  • Topadine - Will Druce

  • The Outermost House - Henry Beston

  • Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

  • Walden - Henry David Thoreau

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare

  • Miss Lonelyhearts* - Nathanael West

  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard

  • Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

  • Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq

  • As You Like It - William Shakespeare

  • The Natural History of Selborne - Gilbert White

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches* - Matsuo Bashō

  • Twelfth Night; or, What You Will - William Shakespeare

  • The Abundance - Annie Dillard

  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - William Shakespeare

  • On The Natural History of Destruction - W. G. Sebald

  • Unrecounted - W. G. Sebald

  • Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare

  • The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

  • Blizzard* - Henri Cole

  • Gravity and Center - Henri Cole

  • Leaves of Grass* - Walt Whitman

  • The Rings of Saturn* - W. G. Sebald

  • All’s Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare

  • Austerlitz* - W. G. Sebald

  • Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare

  • Wildwood - Roger Deakin

  • Othello, the Moor of Venice - William Shakespeare

  • The Plains - Gerald Murnane

  • Macbeth* - William Shakespeare

  • Hold Me Tight - Dr. Sue Johnson

  • King Lear - William Shakespeare

  • Six Peaks Speak - Barry Golding

  • Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare

2024

  • The Crossing* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Cities of the Plain* - Cormac McCarthy

  • No Country for Old Men* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Sunset Limited* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Road* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Counsellor* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Passenger / Stella Maris* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Return of the Prodigal Son - Henri Nouwen

  • King Henry VI* - William Shakespeare

  • King Richard III - William Shakespeare

  • Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare

  • The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare

  • Love‘s Labour‘s Lost - William Shakespeare

  • Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

  • A Midsummer Night‘s Dream - William Shakespeare

  • King John - William Shakespeare

  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

  • The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare

  • Winter - Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • King Richard II - William Shakespeare

  • The Rainbow - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Hadji Murat* - Leo Tolstoy

  • A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L’Engle

  • Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu

  • The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare

2023

  • Judas - Amos Oz

  • Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth - Tom Stoppard

  • After You - Cyril Wong

  • The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza - Cyril Wong

  • Ministry of Moral Panic - Amanda Lee Koe

  • Maxims and Reflections - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro - Fernando Pessoa

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

  • The Divine Comedy* - Dante

  • The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain

  • The Passenger / Stella Maris* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Odyssey - Homer

  • The Iliad - Homer

  • The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The Old Capital - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Across the Land and the Water (Selected Poems, 1964-2001) - W. G. Sebald

  • King Henry The Sixth - William Shakespeare

  • The Lake - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The Orchard Keeper* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Outer Dark* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Child of God* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Gardener’s Son* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Ginger Man - J. P. Donleavy

  • Suttree* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Light in August* - William Faulkner

  • The Canterbury Tales (transl. Nevill Coghill) - Chaucer

  • A Personal Matter - Kenzaburō Ōe

  • Blood Meridian* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Whales and Men - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Stonemason* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Canterbury Tales* (original) - Chaucer

  • All the Pretty Horses* - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Complete Musashi - Miyamoto Musashi

2022

  • Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy

  • Hadji Murat - Leo Tolstoy

  • Based on a True Story - Norm Macdonald

  • A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

  • Middle Earth - Henri Cole

  • Orphic Paris - Henri Cole

  • Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

  • Living the Beatitudes Today - Guy Robert Peel Steward

  • The Collected Novels of Franz Kafka (The Trial*, The Castle, Amerika)

  • The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa

  • Sanctuary - William Faulkner

  • Requiem For A Nun - William Faulkner

  • The Rings of Saturn* - W. G. Sebald

  • Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

  • Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

  • The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

  • After Nature - W. G. Sebald

  • Vertigo - W. G. Sebald

  • The Emigrants - W. G. Sebald

  • A Place in the Country - W. G. Sebald

  • Poetry of Victor Hugo (2 Volumes)

  • Times Alone - Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

  • Selected Poems - Fernando Pessoa

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • A Heart So White - Javier Marías

  • The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy

  • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn - Daniel Gordis

  • A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz

  • Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy

  • Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt

  • My Michael - Amos Oz

  • Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known by God - Abraham Joshua Heschel

2021

  • Nostromo - Joseph Conrad

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

  • Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

  • Blizzard - Henri Cole

  • Blood Meridian* - Cormac McCarthy

  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

  • Blizzard* - Henri Cole

  • Don Quixote* - Miguel de Cervantes

  • Deceit, Desire, & the Novel - René Girard

  • Red Shift - Alan Garner

  • Ricoeur on Time and Narrative - William C. Dowling

  • The Visible Man - Henri Cole

  • Mein liebstes Disney-Buch - Delphin Verlag

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Devil - Leo Tolstoy

  • Leaves of Grass (1855 Edition) - Walt Whitman

  • Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

  • Der Räuber Hotzenplotz - Otfried Preußler

  • Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata

  • First Snow on Fuji (Stories) - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Dandelions - Yasunari Kawabata

  • Palm-of-the-Hand Stories - Yasunari Kawabata

  • The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • The Complete Works of J.A. Baker (The Peregrine; The Hill of Summer; Diaries; On The Essex Coast)

  • Little, Big - John Crowley

  • The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald

  • Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  • The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O’Connor

  • The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor

  • Eva Luna - Isabel Allende

  • The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

  • Fifty-Two Stories - Anton Chekhov

  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

  • Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett

  • Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

  • Childhood, Boyhood, And Youth - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy

  • A Confession and Other Religious Writings - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich* - Leo Tolstoy

  • On Life - Leo Tolstoy

  • What is Art? - Leo Tolstoy

2020

  • Joseph and His Brothers - Thomas Mann

  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu

  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

  • V. - Thomas Pynchon

  • Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth

  • Sabbath’s Theater - Philip Roth

  • American Pastoral - Philip Roth

  • To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway

  • Typee - Herman Melville

  • White Noise - Don DeLillo

  • Underworld - Don DeLillo

  • Falling Man - Don DeLillo

  • In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

  • The Gardener’s Son (screenplay) - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Stonemason - Cormac McCarthy

  • The Counsellor (screenplay) - Cormac McCarthy

  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Divine Comedy - Dante

  • The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism - Jürgen Tautz

  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Other Tales - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Penguin Book of American Verse (American Poetry Anthology)

  • The Silence - Don DeLillo

  • Libra - Don DeLillo

Some writers I was reading a lot of before 2020: Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel García Márquez