Or, what I’ve read and any associated scribbles.
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Not pictured: spines, or books I actually own.
You know that I’ve got a TBR list, right? A list of things that I would like to read at some point, in a big list concatenated from my Planning the Pages posts, right? You can check it out here.
Anyway, I figured that nobody’s going to actually search this site for books I’ve read. But maybe a list of things I’ve read (and written about) on here might be of interest or use, if only so I can gather a sense of wow I’ve read a bunch of things to stave off the feeling of O NOES that occasionally comes along when I think of the books I’d like to read but haven’t, and undoubtedly won’t before, well, you know.
So here you go. Click the link to visit the post for each book. The list will be continually updated as I add both current reads and links from previous years: 2023 onwards is in here so far.
- Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor (reread)
- Brian Asman: Man, Fuck This House
- Vladimir Asmundsson: Powers of Darkness
- Stefan Aust: The Baader Meinhof Complex
- Mona Awad: Bunny
- Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: 100 Bullets
- David Bader: One Hundred Great Books in Haiku
- Djuna Barnes: Nightwood
- John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor (reread)
- Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- John Blackburn: A Scent of New-Mown Hay
- Luther Blissett: Q
- Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
- Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life
- Christopher Buehlman: Between Two Fires
- Vincent Bugliosi: Helter Skelter: the True Story of the Manson Murders
- Graeme Macrae Burnet: The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
- Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Smedley D. Butler: War is a Racket
- John Carter: Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
- Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan: Faith, Hope and Carnage
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
- James Clavell: Shōgun
- James Clavell: Tai-Pan
- James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes
- Dennis Covington: Salvation on Sand Mountain
- Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (reread)
- John Darnielle: Universal Harvester
- René Daumal: Mount Analogue
- Don Delillo: Libra
- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
- E.L. Doctorow: Ragtime
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (reread)
- Kerry Downes: Hawksmoor
- Joanna Ebenstein: Death: A Graveyard Companion
- Donnie Eichar: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
- George Eliot: Middlemarch
- Lucy Ellmann: Ducks, Newburyport
- Mathias Enard: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild
- Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides
- Fumiko Enchi: Masks
- Kenneth Fearing: The Big Clock
- Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle
- David Foster: The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross
- Phillip Freedenberg and Jeff Walton: America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic
- Josh Alan Friedman: Tales of Times Square
- Bob Frissell: Nothing in This Book is True But It’s Exactly How Things Are (reread)
- Carlos Fuentes: Terra Nostra
- William Gaddis: The Recognitions
- Martin Gayford: Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters
- Doíreann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat
- Mel Gordon: Theater of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962
- David Graeber: Debt: the First 5000 Years
- Stephen Gregory: The Woodwitch
- Tex Gresham: Sunflower
- William Lindsay Gresham: Nightmare Alley
- Paul Griffiths: The Lay of Sir Tristram
- Jeff Guinn: Manson: the Life and Times of Charles Manson
- Jeff Guinn: The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
- Jeff Guinn: Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
- Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent
- William Hjörtsberg: Falling Angel (reread)
- Homer: Iliad (reread)
- Homer: Odyssey (reread)
- Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts
- Werner Herzog: Every Man for Himself and God Against All
- David Hunt: Girt
- David Hunt: True Girt
- David Hunt: Girt Nation
- Walter Isaacson: Leonardo da Vinci
- Christopher Isherwood: The Berlin Novels
- Junji Ito: Tombs
- Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories
- Shirley Jackson: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Clive James: Always Unreliable
- Clive James: North Face of Soho
- Clive James: The Blaze of Obscurity
- Erik Jensen: Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen
- James Joyce: Dubliners (reread)
- James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (reread)
- James Joyce: Ulysses (reread)
- Marit Kapla: Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
- Yasunari Kawabata: The Lake
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Tales from the Cafe series
- Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
- Gerald Kersh: Night and the City
- Terence Killeen: Ulysses Unbound
- Martin King and Marc Breault: Preacher of Death
- Russell King: Rajneeshpuram
- Stephen King: The Stand
- Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead
- Julia Kite: Hope & Anchor
- Christian Kracht: Imperium
- R. F. Kuang: Yellowface
- Paul La Farge: The Night Ocean
- John Langan: The Fisherman
- Richard Laymon: Funland
- Julia Leigh: The Hunter
- Stanisław Lem: Solaris
- Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera
- Maurice Lever: The Marquis de Sade: A Biography
- Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem
- Cixin Liu: The Dark Forest
- Cixin Liu: Death’s End
- Jamie Loftus: Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
- Karina Longworth: Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
- Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
- Eric McCormack: The Paradise Motel (reread)
- Michael McDowell: The Elementals
- Andrew McGahan: The Rich Man’s House
- Naguib Mahfouz: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth
- Walter de la Mare: The Return
- Guy de Maupassant: Afloat
- Nick McKenzie: Crossing the Line
- Stephen Markley: The Deluge
- Seichō Matsumoto: Tokyo Express
- W. Somerset Maugham: The Magician
- Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (reread)
- Richard Metzger (ed): The Disinfo Book of Lies
- Yukio Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
- Patrick Modiano: The Black Notebook
- Alan Moore: Jerusalem
- James Morrison: Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another
- Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands
- Haruki Murakami: Killing Commendatore
- Gerald Murnane: Border Districts
- Fuminori Nakamura: The Thief
- Patrick Nevins: Man in a Cage
- Tom O’Neill: Chaos: the Truth Behind the Manson Murders
- Joyce Carol Oates: The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
- Sokyo Ono: Shinto: The Kami Way
- Adam Ouston: Waypoints
- Peter Polites: Down the Hume
- Dick Porter: Journey to the Centre of The Cramps
- Michael Pronko: Beauty and Chaos
- Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time
- Kate Pullinger: When the Monster Dies
- Roger Pulvers: Liv
- Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon
- Ishmael Reed: Mumbo Jumbo
- Franziska zu Reventlow: The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe
- Richard Rhodes: The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Marc Ribot: Unstrung: Rants and STories of a Noise Guitarist
- Donald Richie The Inland Sea
- Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country
- Damon Runyon: On Broadway (reread)
- Giacomo Sartori: I Am God
- Eric Schlosser: Command and Control
- Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu: Dracula in Istanbul
- Philip Short: Putin
- Dan Simmons: The Terror
- David Sodergren: The Forgotten Island
- David Sodergren: Maggie’s Grave
- Vladimir Sorokin: Telluria
- Bob Spitz: The Beatles
- Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (reread)
- Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan: Francis Bacon: Revelations
- David Stevenson: 1914–1918: The History of the First World War
- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
- Bram Stoker: Dracula (reread)
- Boris and Arkady Strugatsky: The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn
- Quentin Tarantino: Cinema Speculation
- Philip Meadows Taylor: Confessions of a Thug
- Hervé le Tellier: The Anomaly
- Olga Tokarczuk: Flights
- Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Tricky: Hell is Round the Corner
- Julia Voznesenskaya: The Women’s Decameron
- Clinton Walker: Stranded: Australian Independent Music 1976–1992
- David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
- Aliya Whiteley: Skyward Inn
- Michael Winkler: Grimmish
- B.R. Yeager: Burn You the Fuck Alive
- B.R. Yeager: Negative Space
- Michael Zielenziger: Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation