The library
What is this?
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.
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
2025-04-20
2666
Roberto Bolaño
2025-04-01
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
2024-04-20
Finished
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-L.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K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher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
2021-01-02
Finished
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse
2021-01-02
2021-01-17
Finished
Dracula
Bram Stoker
2021-01-02
Finished
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
2021-01-02
Finished
Laughter in the Dark
Vladimir Nabokov
2021-01-02
Finished
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
The Rider
Tim Krabbé
2020-02-06
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
2020-01-23
Finished
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
Ghost World
Daniel Clowes
2017-04-05
Finished
Philosophy in the Boudoir
Marquis de Sade
2017-04-05
Finished
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams
2017-03-12
Finished
Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike
Grant Petersen
2017-03-04
2016-03-01
Finished
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
2017-03-01
Finished
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
2017-03-01
Finished
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
2017-03-01
Finished
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov
2017-03-01
Finished
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery
2017-03-01
Finished
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
2014-10-15
Finished
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
2014-08-28
Finished
Men in Space
Tom McCarthy
2014-08-27
2014-08-25
Finished
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
2014-08-20
Finished
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
2014-07-28
Finished
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
2013-11-26
Finished
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
Eimear McBride
2013-10-31
Finished
Autobiography
Morrissey
2013-10-27
Finished
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Hilary Mantel
2013-09-06
Finished
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
2013-08-31
Finished
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil
2013-08-14
Finished
The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.
Jonathan Hickman
2013-08-06
Finished
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)
Salman Rushdie
2013-08-06
Finished
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
2013-08-01
Finished
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. Martin
2013-07-07
Finished
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
George R.R. Martin
2013-07-07
Finished
Something Leather
Alasdair Gray
2013-06-06
Finished
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
2013-06-03
Finished
A Hologram for the King
Dave Eggers
2013-05-23
Finished
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
2013-03-30
Finished
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
2013-03-26
Finished
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
2013-01-31
Finished
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
2013-01-09
Finished
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Alan Sillitoe
2012-10-19
Finished
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
2012-10-17
Finished
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
2012-08-08
Finished
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
2012-06-05
Finished
The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
Terry Pratchett
2012-04-15
Finished
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
2012-04-11
Finished
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
2012-04-11
Finished
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
2012-04-11
Finished
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
2012-04-11
Finished
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
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
2012-04-11
Finished
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2012-04-11
Finished
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
2012-04-11
Finished
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
2012-04-11
Finished
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
2012-04-11
Finished
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
2012-04-11
Finished
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
2012-04-11
Finished
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
2012-04-11
Finished
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
2012-04-11
Finished
Animal Farm
George Orwell
2012-04-11
Finished
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2012-04-11
Finished
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
2012-04-11
Finished
1984
George Orwell
2012-04-11
Finished
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
2012-04-11
Finished
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
2012-04-11
Finished
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
2012-04-11
Finished
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
2012-04-11
Finished
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Reif Larsen
2012-04-11
Finished
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
Isaac Asimov
2012-04-11
Finished
Battle Royale
Koushun Takami
2012-04-11
Finished
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Suzanne Collins
2012-04-11
Finished
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
2012-04-11
Finished
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
Paul Collins
2012-04-11
Finished
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
2012-04-11
Finished
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
2012-04-11
Finished
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
Douglas Adams
2012-04-11
Finished
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
Douglas Adams
2012-04-11
Finished
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams
2012-04-11
Finished
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
2012-04-11
Finished
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
2012-04-11
Finished
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
2012-04-11
Finished
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
H.P. Lovecraft
2012-04-11
Finished
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
2012-04-11
Finished
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
2012-04-11
Finished
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
2012-04-11
Finished
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
2012-04-11
Finished
Ripening Seed (English and French Edition)
Colette Gauthier-Villars
2012-04-11
Finished