An incomplete list of books that I’ve been reading lately…

2024

• I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
• The Wind Off the Small Isles by Mary Stewart
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
• Nails and Eyes by Kaori Fujino
• The Complete Short Stories by Leonora Carrington
• A Nail, A Rose by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• What Kingdom by Fine Gråbøl
• Eden by Stanislaw Lem

2023

• Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones
• Paddling My Own Canoe by Audrey Sutherland
• Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson
• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
• Forgotten Journey by Silvina Ocampo
• The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
• Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
• The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes

2022

• Strange Bliss: Essential Stories by Katherine Mansfield
• The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• Desire and Delusion by Arthur Schnitzler
• A Word Child by Iris Murdoch
• Casanova’s Return to Venice by Arthur Schnitzler
• Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis
• Against Venice by Régis Debray
• The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
• The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Duerrenmatt
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
• Babel by R. F. Kuang
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan
• Lenz by Georg Büchner
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa
• Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

2021

• Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
• Dark Entries by Robert Aikman
• Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
• Foundation by Isaac Asmimov
• The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray
• Matrix by Lauren Groff
• Night Games by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Governess and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig
• The Enchanted April by Elizabeth
• The Black Swan by Thomas Mann
• The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm

2020

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
• Elizabeth I: A Study in Insecurity by Helen Castor
• War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Origo
• Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
• Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
• The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

2019

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
• The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
• In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
• The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• Down Below by Leonora Carryington
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
• Masks by Fumiko Enchi
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• Educated by Tara Westover
• A View from the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
• The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Down Girl by Kate Manne
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Chéri by Colette
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Leguin
• The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson

2018

• First Love and Other Tales by Ivan Turgenev
• La Légèreté by Catherine Meurisse
• Autobiography of a Corpse by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
• Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge by Chris Bonington and Charles Clarke
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
• Subtly Worded by Teffi
• Message to the Planet by Iris Murdoch
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

2017

• The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
• Dying by Arthur Schnitzler
• Count d’Orgel by Raymond Radiguet
• Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
• The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy by Antal Szerb
• Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories by Silvina Ocampo
• The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter
• The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
• The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
• Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
• Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan
• Murder in Retrospect by Agatha Christie
• The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
• Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
• Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
• Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy