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Read 2024

April

March

6/12

  1. Atomic Habits - James Clear
  2. Snow Crash - Niel Stephenson
  3. A Borrowed Man - Gene Wolfe
  4. Interlibrary Loan - Gene Wolfe

February

2/8

  1. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

January

1/4

  1. The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton

Read 2023

39/48

December

39/48

  1. The Dragon Never Sleeps - Glen Cook
  2. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

November

37/44

  1. The Land Across - Gene Wolfe
  2. Sung in Blood - Glen Cook
  3. The Heirs of Babylon - Glen Cook

October

1 - 34/40

  1. Port of Shadows - Glen Cook
  2. King Henry V - William Shakespeare
  3. The Anomaly - Michael Rutger
  4. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

September

2 - 30/36

  1. Three Word Phrase, Volume 2 - Ryan Pequin
  2. Soldiers Live - Glen Cook

August

3 - 28/32

  1. Bleak Seasons - Glen Cook
  2. She Is the Darkness - Glen Cook
  3. Water Sleeps - Glen Cook

July

3 - 25/28

  1. Homo Ludens: The Play Element of Culture - Johan Huizinga
  2. Cunk On Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena - Philomena Cunk
  3. Three Word Phrase, Volume 1 - Ryan Pequin

June

4 - 22/24

  1. Tucker - Louis L’Amour
  2. Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton
  3. Hound of The Far Side - Gary Larson
  4. Step Aside, Pops - Kate Beaton

May

7 - 18/20

  1. Dreams of Steel - Glen Cook
  2. The Silver Spike - Glen Cook
  3. SeinLanguage - Jerry Seinfeld
  4. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  5. Emphyrio - Jack Vance
  6. The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J. Maas
  7. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

April

4 - 11/16

  1. The Black Company - Glen Cook
  2. Shadows Lengthen - Glen Cook
  3. The White Rose - Glen Cook
  4. Shadow Games - Glen Cook

March

2 - 7/12

  1. Mr. Pye - Mervyn Peake
  2. The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

February

3 - 5/8

  1. Shifting - Miracle Jones (reread)
  2. Burning - Miracle Jones
  3. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski

January

2 - 2/4

  1. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  2. Sharing - Miracle Jones (reread)

Read 2022

December

  1. The Knight - Gene Wolfe
  2. The Wizard - Gene Wolfe
  3. Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories - qntm
  4. Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming - Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
  5. Monsieur Lambert - Jean-Jacques Sempé
  6. Windhaven - George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
  7. The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

November

  1. The Dark Eidolon and other Fantasies - Clark Ashton Smith
  2. The Secret of Secrets - Aristotle
  3. Into the Odd (Remastered) - Chris McDowall, art by Johann Nohr
  4. Brahms and His Music - TIME LIFE Recordings
  5. UNIVERSE - Robert Heinlein
  6. Creative Authenticity - Ian Roberts
  7. Before The Incal - Alexandro Jodorowsky, art by Zoran Janjetov

October

  1. Borne - Jeff Vandermeer
  2. Tarendra - Michael Andre-Driussi

September

  1. Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
  2. Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
  3. Mythic Game Master Emulator - Tana Pigeon
  4. UNE: the universal NPC emulator - Zach Best
  5. Liminal Horror - Goblin Archives (Nick Erickson)
  6. For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai - Mirabai, translated by Andrew Schelling
  7. Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh
  8. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr - Ram V and Filipe Andrade

August

  1. Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope With Uncertainty - Gerd Gigerenzer
  2. Cairn - Yochai Gal
  3. Four Against Darkness - Andrea Sfiligoi

July

  1. The Secret History of the War on Cancer - Devra Davis

June

  1. Truth of the Divine - Lindsay Ellis
  2. Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty
  3. The Little Book of Lost Words - Joe Gillard
  4. Mayhem - Estelle Laure

May

  1. Ice - Anna Kavan
  2. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

April

  1. The Erstwhile - B. Catling
  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  3. Les Yeus Du Chat - Moebius & Jodorowsky
  4. The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe - D. G. Compton
  5. Cabeza de Vaca - Peter Rabbit

March

  1. The Vorrh - B. Catling
  2. Axiom’s End - Lindsay Ellis
  3. Pan - Knut Hamsun
  4. Martian Time-Slip - Phillip K. Dick

February

  1. The Thousandfold Thought - R. Scott Bakker
  2. The Searcher - Tana French

January

  1. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  2. The Wych Elm - Tana French
  3. The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker
  4. The Warrior Prophet - R. Scott Bakker

Read 2021

December

  1. King Henry IV, Part Two - William Shakespeare
  2. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
  3. The Trespasser - Tana French
  4. Chapterhouse Dune - Frank Herbert

November

  1. Winter’s Tales - Isak Dinesen
  2. The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
  3. King Henry IV, Part One - William Shakespeare
  4. The Secret Place - Tana French

October

  1. King Richard II - William Shakespeare
  2. The War On Normal People - Andrew Yang
  3. Ra - qntm

September

  1. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
  2. Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease - Robert Lustig
  3. Broken Harbor - Tana French
  4. King John - William Shakespeare

August

  1. The Nine Unknown - Talbot Mundy
  2. The Woods - Tana French
  3. The Likeness - Tana French
  4. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography - Limmy
  5. Faithful Place - Tana French

July

  1. The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog - Doris Lessing
  2. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
  3. Fine Structure - qntm
  4. Lena - qntm

June

  1. Of all the stars, the evening star - Jim Levy
  2. The Master and Margerita - Bugalkov
  3. There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
  4. The Jungle - Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul
  5. Ed - qntm
  6. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
  7. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
  8. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer

May

  1. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
  2. Saint Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
  3. Arid Dreams - Duanwad Pimwana, translated by Mui Poopoksakul

April

  1. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
  2. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
  3. Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys

March

  1. Dune - Frank Herbert (reread)
  2. Who? - Algis Budrys
  3. The Incal - Jodorowsky and Moebius
  4. Michaelmas - Algis Budrys

February

  1. The Oxygen Advantage - Patrick McKeown
  2. Ah, Mouthless Things - Lee Seong-Bok
  3. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
  4. The Lover - Marguerite Duras

January

  1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  2. The New Well Tempered Sentence - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  3. Seven Nights - Jorge Luis Borges
  4. On Directing Film - David Mamet

Read 2020

Total: 32

December

  1. Blood and Burning - Algis Budrys
  2. The Empire of Gold S. A. Chakraborty
  3. Falling Torch - Algis Budrys

November

  1. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
  2. The City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty
  3. The Kingdom of Copper - S. A. Chakraborty
  4. The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox - Dr. Mark Burhenne

October

  1. The Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley

September 2020

  1. Paganism Explained - Part I: Þrymskviða - Varg Vikernes & Marie Cachet

August 2020

  1. Mara and Dann - Doris Lessing
  2. That’s Your Lot - Limmy
  3. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  4. The Accursed Share: Volume 1 - Georges Bataille

July 2020

Total: 5

  1. The Cleft - Doris Lessing
  2. The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
  3. The Castle of the Otter and Castle of Days - Gene Wolfe
  4. Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur
  5. Daft Wee Stories - Limmy

June 2020

Total: 4

  1. Everything I Want to Do is Illegal - Joel Salatin
  2. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  3. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell - Doris Lessing
  4. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 2020

Total: 4

  1. Till We Have Faces - C. S. Lewis
  2. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  3. Return to the Whorl - Gene Wolfe
  4. Comus: A Masque (reread) - John Milton

April 2020

Total: 5

  1. The Sacred and the Profane - Eliade Mircea
  2. The Colossus and Other Poems - Silvia Plath
  3. On Blue’s Waters - Gene Wolfe
  4. Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert
  5. In Green’s Jungles - Gene Wolfe

March 2020

Total: 4

  1. How to Defend Society Against Science - Paul Feyerabend
  2. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
  3. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate - Christopher Beha
  4. The King of Elfland’s Daughter - Lord Dunsany
  5. Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena Bormashenko

February 2020

Total: 4

  1. #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics - Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek
  2. Post Modernism and Consumer Society - Frederic Jameson
  3. Mindless Statistics - Gerd Gigerenzer
  4. On the Vanity of Existence - Arthur Schopenhauer
  5. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  6. Season of Storms - Andrzej Sapkowski
  7. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

January 2020

Total: 4

  1. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hofmann
  2. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  3. The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - Ronald L. Wasserstein & Nicole A. Lazar
  4. A Short Note on P-Value Hacking - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  5. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, and ensuing debate:
  6. What Is Hauntology? - Mark Fisher
  7. Xenofeminism - A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks

Read 2019

Total: 52

December 2019

Total: 8

  1. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
  2. The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit - Jonathan Swift
  3. Other Writings (comprising An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, The Bickerstaff Papers, The Examiner - No. 14, The Drapier’s First Letter, A Modest Proposal, and Swift’s Correspondence) - Jonathan Swift
  4. Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor W. Adorno
  5. Swift’s Poems - Jonathan Swift
  6. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
  7. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
  8. The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
  9. FLCL Vol. 1 - Hajime Ueda & Gainax
  10. The Lady of the Lake - Andrzej Sapkowski

November 2019

Total: 1

  1. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

October 2019

Total: 5

  1. Soil (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
  2. Cream (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
  3. Stocklets (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
  4. Tomorrowland (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
  5. Christmas (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones

September 2019

Total: 4

  1. Time of Contempt - Andrzej Sapkowski
  2. Baptism of Fire - Andrzej Sapkowski
  3. The Siege and Fall of Troy - Robert Graves
  4. The Tower of the Swallow - Andrzej Sapkowski

August 2019

Total: 5

  1. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
  2. The Sword of Destiny - Andrzej Sapkowski
  3. The Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
  4. The Indian Never Had a Horse & other poems - Etal Adnan
  5. L’Heptaméron - Marguerite d’Angoulême/Navarre

July 2019

Total: 3

  1. Caldé of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
  2. Exodus from the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
  3. The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage - Etal Adnan

June 2019

Total: 5

  1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
  2. Resurrection Seven - Stephen Marlowe
  3. Pussy and Her Language - Marvin R. Clark and Alphonse Leon Grimaldi
  4. Industrial Society and Its Future - FC
  5. The Man Without Qualities, vol. 2 - Robert Musil

May 2019

Total: 6

  1. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
  2. Nightside of the Long Sun - Gene Wolf
  3. Lake of the Long Sun - Gene Wolf
  4. The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
  5. The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
  6. The Black Tulip - Iraj Bashiri

April 2019

Total: 4

  1. The Works of Arthur Machen

March 2019

Total: 3

  1. Jack of Shadows (reread) - Roger Zelazny
  2. The Changeling Sea - Patricia A. Mckillip
  3. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

February 2019

Total: 4

  1. Winter Rose - Patricia A. Mckillip
  2. Solstice Wood - Patricia A. Mckillip
  3. t zero - Italo Calvino
  4. The Blue Fox - Sjón

January 2019

Total: 4

  1. Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
  2. The Lifeboat - Charlotte Rogan
  3. O’henry best stories 2016
  4. Invasion of the body snatchers - Jack Finney

Read 2018

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To Read

Books

  1. White Nights
  2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  3. Hidden Faces
  4. The Man Without Qualities, vol. 3
  5. The Count of Monty Cristo
  6. Brothers Karamazov
  7. The Silmarillion
  8. The Lord of the Rings
  9. The Mabinogi(on)
  10. Heimskringla
  11. The Prose and Poetic Eddas
  12. The Old Testament - Robert Alter
  13. The New Testament
  14. The New Testament: A Translation - David Bentley Hart
  15. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth - David Bentley Hart
  16. That All May Be Saved - David Bentley Hart
  17. The Story of Christianity - David Bentley Hart
  18. A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays - David Bentley Hart
  19. Il Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
  20. Canopus in Argos: Archives, Vol 1 - 5
  21. Only Revolutions
  22. The Fairie Queen: Book I ++
  23. The White Goddess
  24. Structuralism and Semiotics
  25. A River Sutra
  26. Swann’s Way
  27. Empires of Foliage and Flower - Gene Wolfe
  28. Lexicon Urthus
  29. Cosmere - Sanderson
  30. Mistborne books
  31. Against Method (Epistemological Anarchism) - Paul Feyerabend
  32. With Fire and Sword - Henryk Sienkiewicz
  33. De Vermis Mysteriis
  34. The Compound Effect
  35. Glowbug - Feistamel
  36. Eden, Eden, Eden - Pierre Guyotat
  37. Naomi - Junichiro Tanizaki
  38. Les Deux Étendards - Lucien Rebatet
  39. Les Décombres - Lucien Rebatet
  40. Pelmen the Powershaper Trilogy - Robert Don Hughes
  41. Next of Kin - Eric Frank Russell
  42. Empire of the Summer Moon
  43. Book about korean war - hampton sides
  44. One-Straw Revolution
  45. Everything is Illuminated
  46. feeld - Jos Charles
  47. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
  48. Wieland - Charles Brokden Brown
  49. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
  50. The Pillowbook - Japanese lady….
  51. Into the Darkness They Eat
  52. The Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg
  53. The Secret War - David W. Amendola
  54. Petersburg - Andrei Bely
  55. Dictionnaire Infernal - Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
  56. The Complete Liber Primus (Crypto puzzle) - Antonio Kowatsch and Cicada 3301
  57. The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
  58. How Much Land Does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
  59. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis
  60. The Custom of the Country - Edith Warton
  61. The King David Report - Stefan Heym
  62. Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  63. Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 - Jozef Czapski
  64. Hunger (Sult) - Knut Hamsun
  65. All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
  66. Votan - John James
  67. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross - John Marco Allegro
  68. Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Autonomous Material - Reza Negarestani
  69. Intelligence and Spirit - Reza Negarestani
  70. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007 - Nick Land
  71. Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of “Renee” - Marguerite Sechehaye
  72. The Night Country - Loren Eiseley
  73. Maids of Death - Phillup K. Dick
  74. The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
  75. A Banquet of Consequences - Satyajit Das
  76. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations - Christopher Lasch
  77. The Agony of the American Left - Christopher Lasch.
  78. Capitalist Realism: Is There no Alternative? - Mark Fisher
  79. The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
  80. Home - Bill Bryson
  81. ? - Brian Schon
  82. The Red Tent
  83. The Way of Man - Martin Buber
  84. Industrial-Strength Denial - Barbara Freese
  85. A Dream of Red Mansions
  86. Mindkiller - Spider Robinson
  87. Shadow Government - Tom Engelhardt (tomdispatch.com)
  88. Snowden’s book
  89. Axiom’s End
  90. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  91. Intimate Apparel - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  92. No Day Without a Line - Yury Olesha
  93. 4-book Emigrant series by Swedish Journalist, Vilhelm Moberg
  94. Tales Of Terror - Ida Chittum
  95. Children of the Night - Dan Simmons
  96. Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de l’invention de maitre François Rabelais
  97. Recueil de la diversité des habits (A Collection of the Various Styles of Clothing) - François Desprez (1562)
  98. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson
  99. A Borrowed Man - Gene Wolfe
  100. Interlibrary Loan - Gene Wolfe
  101. The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
  102. The Art of Prophecy - Wesley Chu
  103. Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
  104. Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One - Harold Lamb
  105. Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles - Alexander Bogomolny
  106. The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
  107. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) - Christopher Alexander (Author), Sara Ishikawa (Author), Murray Silverstein
  108. On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers
  109. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
  110. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed - Carl Honoré
  111. Amalia - Jason Byron (Kayo Dot lyricist, vocalist)
  112. Blasphemy, Volumes I & II - Jason Byron
  113. Monument - Ian Graham
  114. Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots
  115. Erewhon: or, Over the Range - Samuel Butler
  116. Black Jack - Leon Garfield
  117. The Great Divorce - C. S . Lewis
  118. The Screwtape Letters - C. S . Lewis
  119. Mere Christianity - C. S . Lewis
  120. The Problem of Pain - C. S . Lewis
  121. Handbook of Catholic Apologetics - Peter Kreeft
  122. The Lost Fleet (series) - Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry)
  123. Venus on the Half-Shell - Kiilgore Trout (Philip José Farmer)
  124. Pornified - Pamela Paul
  125. Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
  126. Ronja Rövardotter (Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter) - Astrid Lindgren

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  1. The Idyls of the King (Tennyson)
  2. The Kanteletar
  3. The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow
  4. Klopstock’s Messiah
  5. Ossian / James Macpherson
  6. L’Aveugle - Chénier
  7. La Legende des Siècles - Victor Hugo
  8. Canto General - Pablo Nerudo
  9. Hermann und Dorothea - Goethe
  10. Zalán Fútasa - Vörösmarty
  11. Pan Tadeusz - Mickiewicz
  12. Mirèio - Mistral
  13. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry - Bishop Percy
  14. Epic and Romance - W. P. Ker
  15. The Ray of the Microcosm - Njegoš
  16. Mysteries of Paris - Eugene Sue
  17. Andrea Gibson (also songs)

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