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A list of the books I am reading, or have read. Unfortunately very incomplete due to forgetfulness and lack of record keeping. Includes data imported from GoodReads which certainly has inaccurate dates.
I list the title and author of the book, when I started and stopped reading it, and whether I finished it.

The Big Short
Michael Lewis
2025-08-17 - 2025-08-24
Finished

Heart of Darkness
Jospeh Conrad
2025-07-27 - 2025-08-06
Finished

A Year with Swollen Appendices
Brian Eno

The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
2025-05-27 - 2025-06-27
Finished

The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis

2666
Roberto Bolaño
2025-04-01 - 2025-05-9
Finished

The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
2024-09 - 2024-09
Finished

Either/Or
Elif Batuman
2024-08 - 2024-08
Finished

The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe
2024-07 - 2024-07
Finished

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe
2024-05 - 2024-05
Finished

Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
2024-04-20 - 2024-05-09
Finished

Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)
Len Deighton

The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
2024-04-02 - 2024-04-20
Finished

Mating
Norman Rush
2024-04-02 - 2024-04-01
Finished

Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
Kent Beck
2024-02-26 - 2024-02-26
Finished
![Hound of the Baskervilles [Paperback]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/0143427032-M.jpg)
Hound of the Baskervilles [Paperback]
Arthur Conan Doyle
2024-01-13 - 2024-01-15
Finished

Stay True
Hua Hsu
2024-01-06 - 2024-01-11
Finished

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
B.S. Johnson
2024-01-02 - 2024-01-04
Finished

Crash
J.G. Ballard
2023-12-14 - 2023-12-16
Finished

Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
William Gibson
2023-12-04 - 2023-12-12
Finished

The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker
2023-11-21 - 2021-08-23
Finished

Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it
Lars A. Doucet
2023-11-12 - 2023-11-14
Finished

Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
William Gibson
2023-11-09 - 2023-11-09
Finished

Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change
Tao Lin
2021-03-24 - 2021-03-24
Finished

Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)
Mervyn Peake
2021-04 - 2021-04
Finished

The Annotated Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
2021-03-24 - 2021-03-24
Finished

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
2021-02-09 - 2021-03-06
Finished

In Praise of Shadows
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2021-02-09 - 2021-02-22
Finished

Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
2021-02-09 - 2021-02-22
Finished

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism (Wolf Brother)
Kyle Chayka
2021-01-25 - 2021-01-29
Finished

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine
2021-01-25 - 2021-01-29
Finished

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher
2021-01-19 - 2021-02-09
Finished

Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
2021-01-08 - 2021-01-11
Finished

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse
2021-01-02 - 2021-01-17
Finished

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov

Moab Is My Washpot
Stephen Fry
2021-01-01 - 2021-01-03
Finished

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Ursula K. Le Guin
2020-12-28 - 2020-12-30
Finished

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life
Avinash K. Dixit
2020-11-11 - 2020-12-27
Finished

Breaking Smart Archives: Selected Newsletters, 2015-19
Venkatesh Rao
2020-07-15 - 2020-07-15
Finished

Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs)
Venkatesh G. Rao
2020-07-15 - 2020-07-15
Finished

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Ashley Dawson
2020-06-13 - 2020-11-11
Finished

The Swimming-Pool Library
Alan Hollinghurst
2020-06-13 - 2020-07-15
Finished

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Nicole Forsgren
2020-05-21 - 2020-05-25
Finished

Xenos (Eisenhorn, #1)
Dan Abnett
2020-05-02 - 2020-04-27
Finished

The Quest of the Simple Life
William James Dawson
2020-04-09 - 2020-04-08
Finished

Known and Strange Things: Essays
Teju Cole
2020-03-24 - 2020-11-11
Finished

The Golden House
Salman Rushdie
2020-03-15 - 2020-03-14
Finished

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
2020-03-15 - 2020-02-28
Finished

Venus in Furs
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
2020-03-15 - 2020-03-06
Finished

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Will Larson
2020-01-23 - 2020-03-23
Finished

The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka
2020-01-23 - 2019-01-01
Finished

Being Ecological
Timothy Morton

Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank Herbert
2019-12-29 - 2020-03-15
Finished

Flashman in the Great Game (Flashman Papers #5)
George MacDonald Fraser
2019-12-29 - 2019-12-29
Finished

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
2019-12-10 - 2020-01-09
Finished

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
2019-12-10 - 2019-12-18
Finished

Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4)
George MacDonald Fraser
2019-12-02 - 2019-12-09
Finished

The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin
2017-05-27 - 2017-05-27
Finished

Philosophy in the Boudoir
Marquis de Sade

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams

Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Grant Petersen
2017-03-04 - 2016-03-01
Finished

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery

Invisible Monsters Remix
Chuck Palahniuk
2015-02-06 - 2015-02-06
Finished

The Trial
Franz Kafka
2015-01-15 - 2015-01-15
Finished

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
2015-01-15 - 2015-01-15
Finished

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Owen Jones
2014-12-21 - 2014-12-21
Finished

King, Queen, Knave
Vladimir Nabokov
2014-11-30 - 2014-11-30
Finished

Remainder
Tom McCarthy
2014-11-30 - 2014-11-30
Finished

The Accidental
Ali Smith
2014-11-30 - 2014-11-30
Finished

Stoner
John Williams
2014-11-30 - 2014-11-30
Finished

The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
John Buchan

Swallowing Geography
Deborah Levy
2014-10-11 - 2014-10-11
Finished

On Photography
Susan Sontag
2014-10-11 - 2014-10-11
Finished

What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund
2014-09-16 - 2014-09-16
Finished

White Noise
Don DeLillo
2014-09-16 - 2014-09-16
Finished

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
2014-09-15 - 2014-09-15
Finished

The Broom of the System
David Foster Wallace

Men in Space
Tom McCarthy
2014-08-27 - 2014-08-25
Finished

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami

Beautiful Mutants
Deborah Levy
2014-08-18 - 2014-08-18
Finished

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
2014-08-04 - 2014-08-04
Finished

Art and Lies
Jeanette Winterson

The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus
2014-07-22 - 2014-07-22
Finished

C
Tom McCarthy
2014-07-15 - 2014-07-15
Finished

The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2014-07-04 - 2014-07-03
Finished

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
2014-07-01 - 2014-07-01
Finished

The Outsider
Albert Camus
2014-05-28 - 2014-05-28
Finished

Paris France
Gertrude Stein
2014-05-16 - 2014-05-16
Finished

Heading Inland
Nicola Barker
2014-04-26 - 2014-04-25
Finished

For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker
Victoria Coren
2014-04-26 - 2014-04-25
Finished

Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
2014-04-23 - 2014-04-22
Finished

Five Miles from Outer Hope
Nicola Barker
2014-04-07 - 2014-04-07
Finished

The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
2014-04-05 - 2014-04-04
Finished

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
Douglas Adams
2014-03-31 - 2014-03-31
Finished

Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
2014-03-28 - 2014-03-27
Finished

The Waves
Virginia Woolf
2014-03-25 - 2014-03-25
Finished

A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
Anaïs Nin
2014-03-10 - 2014-03-10
Finished

The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
Robert W. Chambers
2014-02-27 - 2017-03-01
Finished

Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
2014-02-14 - 2014-02-24
Finished

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05
Alan Grant
2014-02-14 - 2014-02-12
Finished

The Blunders of Our Governments
Anthony King
2014-02-06 - 2017-03-01
Finished

Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
Henry Miller
2014-01-16 - 2014-01-21
Finished

Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
2014-01-16 - 2014-01-16
Finished

Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
2014-01-08 - 2014-01-13
Finished

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell
2014-01-05 - 2014-01-05
Finished

V.
Thomas Pynchon
2013-12-06 - 2013-12-30
Finished

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Gaito Gazdanov
2013-12-06 - 2013-12-08
Finished

Gravity’s Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Eimear McBride

Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Hilary Mantel

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami

The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.
Jonathan Hickman

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
Salman Rushdie

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
George R.R. Martin

Something Leather
Alasdair Gray

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart

A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers

Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
2012-10-17 - 2014-04-27
Finished

Vernon God Little
D.B.C. Pierre

Swimming Home
Deborah Levy
2012-10-17 - 2012-11-09
Finished

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Hilary Mantel
2012-10-16 - 2012-12-09
Finished

Eeeee Eee Eeee
Tao Lin
2012-10-16 - 2012-11-12
Finished

Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
2012-09-24 - 2012-10-21
Finished

A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2)
George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
George R.R. Martin
2012-07-29 - 2012-08-08
Finished

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
George R.R. Martin
2012-07-11 - 2012-07-25
Finished

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin
2012-06-25 - 2012-07-11
Finished

Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
Nicola Barker
2012-06-05 - 2012-06-15
Finished

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
Terry Pratchett

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
2012-04-11 - 2015-03-05
Finished

Story of the Eye
Georges Bataille
2012-04-11 - 2014-02-10
Finished

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
2012-04-11 - 2014-02-02
Finished

Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson

The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Margaret Atwood
2012-04-11 - 2012-10-28
Finished

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
2012-04-11 - 2012-06-29
Finished

Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)
Jeff VanderMeer
2012-04-11 - 2012-05-23
Finished

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf

The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen

The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
Isaac Asimov

Battle Royale
Koushun Takami

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Suzanne Collins

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
Paul Collins

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
Douglas Adams

Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
H.P. Lovecraft

Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson

City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer

Ripening Seed (English and French Edition)
Colette Gauthier-Villars