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.
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
2025-05-9
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
2025-04-20
2025-05-01
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
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K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher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