2026 winter

the winter of our discontent, john steinbeck (02/26-)
fun home, alison bechdel (02/25-03/02)
introduction to the theory of computation, michael sipser (02/23-)
the verdict, franz kafka, trans. muir (02/18)
skin in the game, nassim taleb (02/17-02/18)
south of the border, west of the sun, haruki murakami, trans. gabriel (02/16)
death’s end, cixin liu, trans. liu (02/15-02/24)
ake: the years of childhood, wole soyinka (02/13-02/23)
the royal game, stefan zweig, trans. bell (02/10-02/11)
lost lake, david auburn (02/10)
proof, david auburn (02/10)
pilgrim at tinker creek, annie dillard (02/09)
the overcoat, nikolai gogol, trans. garnett (02/09)
mount chicago, adam levin (02/03-02/08)
letter to the father, franz kafka, trans. kaiser (02/02-02/09)
the sun also rises, ernest hemingway (02/01-02/03)
julia, fernando borretti (02-01)
the bell jar, sylvia plath (01/27-01/29)
butcher's crossing, john williams (01/26-01/27)
the pillow book, sei shonagon, trans. mckinney (01/23-01/30)
death in venice, thomas mann, trans. lowe-porter (01/23-01/24)
the wandering earth, liu cixin, trans. liu (01/21)
hard rain falling, don carpenter (01/16-01/20)
confessions, augustine, trans. chadwick (01/12-01/16)

2025 autumn

a mathematician's apology, g.h. hardy (12/16)
lockhart's lament, paul lockhart (12/15)
seveneves, neal stephenson (11/16-11/25)
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch, philip k. dick (11/13-11/15)
flow my tears the policeman said, philip k. dick (11/12)
sunjata, bamba suso and banna kanute (11/10-11/19)
tell them i said no, martin herbert (11/10-11/11)
verotchka, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (11/09)
daily rituals, mason currey (11/07-11/08)
kill everyone, lee nelson (11/06)
how much land does a man need, leo tolstoy (11/04)
outcomes, nathan blum (11/02)
matisse's notes of a painter, henri matisse (10/18)
the intentional fallacy, w.k. wimsatt and monroe beardsley (10/16)
satantango, lászló krasznahorkai (10/08-10/15)
dance dance dance, haruki murakami (10/02)
the epic of gilgamesh, trans. george (10/01-10/13)
a wild sheep chase, haruki murakami (10/01-10/02)
pinball, 1973, haruki murakami (10/01)
hear the wind sing, haruki murakami (10/01)
kafka on the shore, haruki murakami (09/21-09/30)
a textbook for advanced calculus, john boller and paul j. sally (09/20-)
linear algebra done wrong, sergei treil (09/20-12/09)

2025 summer

giovanni's room, james baldwin (09/15-09/19)
a diamond guitar, truman capote (09/13)
a christmas memory, truman capote (09/13)
the castle, franz kafka (09/06)
the long walk, stephen king (09/03)
letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke (09/02)
and then, natsume soseki, trans. moore field (08/13-08/15)
hard-boiled wonderland, haruki murakami (08/04-08/06)
the woman in the dunes, kobo abe (08/02-08/04)
a personal matter, kenzaburo oe, trans. nathan (07/30-08/01)
the lady with the dog, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (07/29)
snow country, yasunari kawabata (07/26-07/30)
white noise, don delillo (07/12-07/18)
harrington on hold 'em, dan harrington (07/05)
the mathematics of poker, bill chen and jerrod ankenman (07/03)
the kiss, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (07/02)
principles, ray dalio (06/18-06/20)
just like hamburger; exactly like hamburger, tim rogers (06/17)
breakfast at tiffany's, truman capote (06/14-06/16)
cannery row, john steinbeck (06/12-06/13)
the master and margarita, mikhail bulgakov (05/29-07/11)

2025 spring

la veneziana, vladimir nabokov (05/13)
my year of rest and relaxation, ottessa moshfegh (05/10-05/11)
sputnik sweetheart, haruki murakami (05/07-05/09)
norwegian wood, haruki murakami (05/03-05/06)
signs and symbols, vladimir nabokov (05/02)
passing, nella larsen (05/01-05/07)
ur-fascism, umberto eco (04/31)
the rebel, albert camus (04/24-04/30)
the fall, albert camus (04/19)
boule de suif, guy de maupassant (04/17)
a letter that never reached russia, vladimir nabokov (04-15)
gods, vladimir nabokov (04-15)
ma rainey's black bottom, august wilson (04/14-04/24)
demons, fyodor dostoevsky (04/13-05/15)
ward no. 6, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (04/10)
the stories of vladimir nabokov, vladimir nabokov (04/08-33)
the old man and the sea, ernest hemingway (04/05-04/06)
the fund, rob copeland (04/03-04/05)
steppenwolf, hermann hesse (04/01-04/12)
dreams, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (03/28)
de bello gallico, julius caesar (03/27-04/26)
a hero of our time, mikhail lermontov, trans. nabokov (03/25-04/08)
what i talk about when i talk about running, haruki murakami (03/24-03/25)
oblomov, ivan goncharov (03/21-03/24)
the wind-up bird chronicle, haruki murakami (03/18-03/20)
invincible compendium volume 3, kirkman (03/14)
invincible compendium volume 2, kirkman (03/14)
i who have never known men, jacqueline harpman, trans. schwartz (03/12)

2025 winter

secondhand time, svetlana alexievich (03/05)
man's search for meaning, viktor frankl (02/27-03/09)
hills like white elephants, ernest hemingway (02/17)
a clean, well lighted place, ernest hemingway (02/16)
the blue octavo notebooks, franz kafka (02/03-02/06)
aeneid, virgil, trans. mandelbaum (02/03-03/25)
speak memory, vladimir nabokov (02/01-02/04)
demon, lermontov (01/26-01/28)
pnin, vladimir nabokov (01/18-01/25)
the coast of chicago, stuart dybek (01/16-01/18)
stoner, john williams (01/12-01/15)
a living chattel, anton chekhov, trans. garnett (01/08)
lectures on literature, vladimir nabokov (01/03-01/05)
in our time, ernest hemingway (01/01-01/10)

2024 autumn

white nights, fyodor dostoevsky (12/20-12/21)
doorways in the sand, roger zelazny (12/13-12/15)
dandelion wine, ray bradbury (12/07-12/09)
titus groan, mervyn peake (11/24-11/25)
ubik, philip k. dick (11/21-11/22)
the crying of lot 49, thomas pynchon (11/16-11/19)
the metamorphosis, franz kafka (11/15)
a sound of thunder, ray bradbury (11/14)
nature, ralph waldo emerson (11/12-11/13)
civil disobedience, henry david thoreau (11/04)
walden, henry david thoreau (11/01-11/11)
in the penal colony, franz kafka (10/20)
the trial, franz kafka (10/17-10/30)
parable of the sower, octavia butler (10/12-10/15)
the tortilla curtain, t.c. boyle (10/05-10/12)
tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes, david foster wallace (10/01)
the complete short novels, anton chekhov (09/03-)
demon copperhead, barbara kingsolver (08/12)
pale fire, vladimir nabokov (08/05-08/11)
notes from the underground, fyodor dostoevsky (08/03)

2024 summer and beyond; before i tracked

1984, george orwell
a clockwork orange, anthony burgess
a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, mark twain
a country doctor, franz kafka
a discourse on inequality, jean-jacques rousseau
a history of the world in 6 glasses, tom standage
a hunger artist, franz kafka
a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again, david foster wallace
a treatise of human nature, david hume
adventures of huckleberry finn, mark twain
all summer in a day, ray bradbury
american indian stories, zitkala-sa
an american sunrise, joy harjo
and then there were none, agatha christie
animal farm, george orwell
around the world in eighty days, jules verne
babel, r.f. kuang
bartleby the scrivener, herman melville
benito cereno, herman melville
blood meridian, cormac mccarthy
brave new world, aldous huxley
children of dune, frank herbert
concrete island, j.g. ballard
dark age, pierce brown
do androids dream of electric sheep, philip k. dick
dracula, bram stoker
dune, frank herbert
dune messiah, frank herbert
essays first and second series, ralph waldo emerson
ethan frome, edith wharton
exhalation, ted chiang
fahrenheit 451, ray bradbury
fear and trembling, søren kierkegaard
flowers for algernon, daniel keyes
foundation, isaac asimov
galactic pot-healer, philip k. dick
gödel escher bach, douglas hofstadter
gulliver's travels, jonathan swift
hero of two worlds, mike duncan
hillbilly elegy, j.d. vance
hyperion, dan simmons
i have no mouth i must scream, harlan ellison
industrial society and its future, ted kaczynski
interpreter of maladies, jhumpa lahiri
iraq the borrowed kettle, slavoj žižek
island of the blue dolphins, scott o'dell
johnny tremain, esther forbes
journey to the center of the earth, jules verne
life the universe and everything, douglas adams
letters to milena, franz kafka
light bringer, pierce brown
little men, louisa may alcott
little women, louisa may alcott
lolita, vladimir nabokov
lord of the flies, william golding
macbeth, william shakespeare
mama day, gloria naylor
meditations, marcus aurelius
meditations on first philosophy, rené descartes
minor feelings, cathy park hong
native guard, natasha trethewey
night, elie wiesel
nightfall, isaac asimov
of mice and men, john steinbeck
oliver twist, charles dickens
on keeping a notebook, joan didion
on the genealogy of morals, friedrich nietzsche
one-punch man, one
othello, william shakespeare
politics and the english language, george orwell
project hail mary, andy weir
robinson crusoe, daniel defoe
romeo and juliet, william shakespeare
snow crash, neal stephenson
so far from god, ana castillo
so long and thanks for all the fish, douglas adams
solo leveling, chugong
station eleven, emily st. john mandel
stories of your life and others, ted chiang
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde, robert louis stevenson
tao te ching, lao tzu
the 48 laws of power, robert greene
the 7 habits of highly effective people, stephen covey
the adventures of tom sawyer, mark twain
the age of mccarthyism, ellen schrecker
the art of war, sun tzu
the boys in the boat, daniel james brown
the call of the wild, jack london
the cask of amontillado, edgar allan poe
the colour of magic, terry pratchett
the communist manifesto, karl marx and friedrich engels
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, mark haddon
the dark forest, liu cixin
the death of ivan ilyich, leo tolstoy
the enchanter, vladimir nabokov
the fall of hyperion, dan simmons
the fountainhead, ayn rand
the gay science, friedrich nietzsche
the great gatsby, f. scott fitzgerald
the handmaid's tale, margaret atwood
the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
the inequality machine, paul tough
the invention of hugo cabret, brian selznick
the light fantastic, terry pratchett
the lightning-rod man, herman melville
the lion the witch and the wardrobe, c.s. lewis
the lorax, dr. seuss
the lost track of time, paige britt
the martian, andy weir
the merchant and the alchemist's gate, ted chiang
the murders in the rue morgue, edgar allan poe
the myth of sisyphus, albert camus
the nine billion names of god, arthur c. clarke
the odyssey, homer
the ones who walk away from omelas, ursula k. le guin
the outsiders, s.e. hinton
the pearl, john steinbeck
the phantom tollbooth, norton juster
the piazza tales, herman melville
the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
the pit and the pendulum, edgar allan poe
the plague, albert camus
the poppy war, r.f. kuang
the power of now, eckhart tolle
the psychology of money, morgan housel
the republic, plato
the restaurant at the end of the universe, douglas adams
the reveries of the solitary walker, jean-jacques rousseau
the scarlet letter, nathaniel hawthorne
the silo omnibus, hugh howey
the social contract and discourses, jean-jacques rousseau
the sorrows of young werther, johann wolfgang von goethe
the storm before the storm, mike duncan
the stranger, albert camus
the sublime object of ideology, slavoj žižek
the swiss family robinson, johann david wyss
the tell-tale heart, edgar allan poe
the three-body problem, liu cixin
the time machine, h.g. wells
the twenty-one balloons, william pène du bois
the veldt, ray bradbury
the war of the worlds, h.g. wells
the whiz mob and the grenadine kid, colin meloy
the will of the many, james islington
there will come soft rains, ray bradbury
things fall apart, chinua achebe
this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar and max gladstone
this is water, david foster wallace
thus spoke zarathustra, friedrich nietzsche
tractatus logico-philosophicus, ludwig wittgenstein
treasure island, robert louis stevenson
twenty thousand leagues under the sea, jules verne
twilight of the idols, friedrich nietzsche
under the udala trees, chinelo okparanta
waiting for godot, samuel beckett
watchmen, alan moore and dave gibbons
what if, randall munroe
what if 2, randall munroe
what is literature and other essays, jean-paul sartre
where the red fern grows, wilson rawls
why i write, george orwell
wide sargasso sea, jean rhys
works of love, søren kierkegaard
zizek's jokes, slavoj žižek