Books

I’ve been using goodreads to keep track of what I read. At end of 2023 I dumped my goodreads library and moved it here. Books are listed in order of reading, from most recent to least recent; the heading is the year in which I read it. I also keep a list of books I might read some day (202312202201).

2024

• Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
• Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman
• Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung
• Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Space Crone, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Pirate Enlightenment, David Graeber
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
• Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner
• An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks
• Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata
• The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen
• The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin E. H. Smith

2023

• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
• Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang
• Eit nytt namn, Jon Fosse
• Eg er ein annan, Jon Fosse
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Elidor, Alan Garner
• Make It Stick, Peter C. Brown
• The Unreal and the Real: Selected Short Stories, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• The Zimmerman Telegram, Barbara W. Tuchman
• All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
• Det andre namnet, Jon Fosse
• In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick
• Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura
• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
• Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
• The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (reread)
• Slow Horses, Mick Herron
• The Owl Service, Alan Garner
• Sword & Citadel, Gene Wolfe
• Shadow & Claw, Gene Wolfe
• The Looking Glass War, John le Carré
• The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
• The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
• Treacle Walker, Alan Garner
• Thud!, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• Summer Lightning, P.G. Wodehouse
• The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk
• Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Shape, Jordan Ellenberg
• The Science of Discworld, Terry Pratchett
• Does It Matter?, Alan W. Watts
• Deep Work, Cal Newport
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré

2022

• Leave It to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
• To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
• A Murder of Quality, John le Carré
• Call for the Dead, John le Carré
• Something Fresh, P.G. Wodehouse
• Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Eye of the Heron, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Smiley’s People, John le Carré
• Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
• Summerland, Hannu Rajaniemi
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré
• Book of Why, Judea Pearl
• The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• Tales From Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Hundred Days, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Overstory, Richard Powers
• Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman, Richard Feynman
• Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
• The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber
• The Scholars of Night, John M. Ford
• The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Word for World Is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen, P.G. Wodehouse
• Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Solaris, Stanisław Lem
• The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Commodore, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
• Much Obliged, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse

2021

• A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• The Wine-Dark Sea, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Truth, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• Jingo, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• Clarissa Oakes, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Thank You, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth
• Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, P.G. Wodehouse
• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
• The Nutmeg of Consolation, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Jeeves in the Offing, P.G. Wodehouse
• The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Thirteen-Gun Salute, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Good Thinking, IJ. Good
• The Mating Season, P.G. Wodehouse
• Joy in the Morning, P.G. Wodehouse
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
• Right Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• Business Adventures, John Brooks
• Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-joo
• The Letter of Marque, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The World of Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
• Awakenings, Oliver Sacks
• The Fran Lebowitz Reader, Fran Lebowitz

2020

• The Reverse of the Medal, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Code of the Woosters, P.G. Wodehouse
• Hogfather, Terry Pratchett (reread)
• The Secret History, Donna Tartt
• The Far Side of the World, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• The Great Soul of Siberia, Sooyong Park
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• Treason’s Harbour, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Caitlin Doughty
• The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
• The Ionian Mission, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
• Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
• The Plague, Albert Camus
• The Surgeon’s Mate, Patrick O’Brian (reread)
• 1984, George Orwell
• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
• The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data, David Spiegelhalter
• Sudden Death, Álvaro Enrigue
• The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag
• The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa
• If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio
• What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt