Since 2018, I’ve written lists of things I’d like to read at the beginning of each year. They provide a little structure for my reading over the following days, or at least function as a bit of a safeguard against choice paralysis.
I’ve sometimes kept to them (and sometimes haven’t) but I figured it’d be nice to have everything I’ve listed in one place, so I can keep track of what’s been read and what hasn’t. Links will be added once I’ve read the work. A (reread) next to the work indicates that I will be rereading it.
(Well, it’ll be interesting to me I guess.)
This will be added to every time I make one of those lists. Only the books on the list will go on here: others I read through the year are extras. Think of this as an eternal version of one of those Planning The Pages posts.
(OK I lied: some other books make it on here. Is there a logic behind how I choose them? MAYBE!)
(OK, I really lied, as now I’m kind of treating this as a way keep track of my reviews, too. IT’S A DOUBLE-WHAMMY, folks.)
A list of things I’d like to read; a list undoubtedly bound to remain incomplete
- Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen
- Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen Honkyoku
Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor (reread)- Peter Ackroyd: Foundation
- Peter Ackroyd: Tudors
- Peter Ackroyd: Rebellion
- Peter Ackroyd: Revolution
- Peter Ackroyd: Dominion
- Peter Ackroyd: Innovation
- Peter Ackroyd: Queer City
- Peter Ackroyd: Mr Cadmus
- Douglas Adams: The Ultimate Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Naja Marie Aidt: Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso
- Robert Arthur: You Will Die
Vladimir Asmundsson: Powers of Darkness- Thea Astley: A Kindness Cup
- Dan Aulier: Hitchcock’s Secret Notebooks
- Michael Axworthy: Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso: 100 Bullets- Phil Baker (ed.): Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer
- J.G. Ballard: The Complete Short Stories
- Elizabeth L. Banks: Adventures of an American Girl in Victorian London
- W.N.P. Barbellion: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Djuna Barnes: Nightwood- Richard Barnett: The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul art of Dentistry
- Richard Barnett: The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
- Richard Barnett: Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Surgery
John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor (reread)- Svetislav Basara: The Cyclist Conspiracy
- Giambattista Basile: The Tale of Tales
- Mary Beard: SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome
- Antony Beevor: The Second World War
- David Bellos: Georges Perec
- Catherine Belton: Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
- Alfred Rosling Bennett: London and Londoners in the 1850s and 1860s
- Guðbergur Bergsson: Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller
- Laurent Binet: HhHh
- Christopher Yohmei Blasdel: The Shakuhachi: A Manual for Learning
- William Blake: The Complete Poems
Luther Blissett: QGiovanni Boccaccio: The DecameronAlain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life- T. C. Boyle: Water Music
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: Physiology of Taste
- Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book
Christopher Buehlman: Between Two Fires- Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (reread)
Robert Burton: The Anatomy of MelancholySmedley D. Butler: War is a Racket- Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch
- Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
- Roberto Calasso: Ka
- Roberto Calasso: Literature and the Gods
- Roberto Calasso: K.
- Roberto Calasso: Tiepolo Pink
- Mena Calthorpe: The Dyehouse
- Lúcio Cardoso: Chronicle of the Murdered House
- Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (reread)
- Peter Carey: Illywhacker (reread)
- Peter Carey: The Tax Inspector (reread)
- Peter Carey: Parrot and Oliver in America
- Peter Carey: Jack Maggs
- Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang
- Peter Carey: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
John Carter: Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons- Brian Catling: The Vorrh
- Brian Catling: The Erstwhile
- Brian Catling: The Cloven
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote- Ben Chasny: The Hexadic System
- William Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (reread)
- Agatha Christie: all of them, eventually
- Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
James Clavell: ShōgunJames Clavell: Tai-Pan- James Clavell: Noble House
- James Clavell: King Rat
- James Clavell: Whirlwind
- James Clavell: Gai-Jin
James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Wakes- James S.A. Corey: Caliban’s War
- James S.A. Corey: Abaddon’s Gate
- James S.A. Corey: Cibola Burn
- James S.A. Corey: Nemesis Games
- James S.A. Corey: Babylon’s Ashes
- James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising
- James S.A. Corey: Tiamat’s Wrath
- James S.A. Corey: Leviathan Falls
- Bernard Cornwell: The Winter King
- Bernard Cornwell: The Enemy of God
- Bernard Cornwell: Excalibur
Dennis Covington: Salvation on Sand Mountain- Thomas P. Cullinan: The Beguiled
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (reread)John Darnielle: Universal Harvester- Norman Davies: Vanishing Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
- Anthony Decurtis: Lou Reed: A Life
Don Delillo: Libra- Don Delillo: White Noise
- Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (reread)
- Mark de Silva: The Logos
- Tara A. Devlin: assorted works
- Stephen Dixon: Frog
- Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz
E.L. Doctorow: RagtimeFyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (reread)- Alan Duff: Once Were Warriors
- Alan Duff: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Joanna Ebenstein: Death: A Graveyard Companion- Umberto Eco: On Beauty
- Umberto Eco: On Ugliness
- Umberto Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum (reread)
Donnie Eichar: Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass IncidentGeorge Eliot: MiddlemarchLucy Ellmann: Ducks, Newburyport- George Elson: The Last of the Climbing Boys
- Mathias Enard: The Street of Thieves
Fumiko Enchi: Masks- Shūsaku Endō: Silence
- Shūsaku Endō: Wonderful Fool
- Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
- Michel Faber: The Crimson Petal and the White
- Michel Faber: Under the Skin
- Michel Faber: The Book of Strange New Things
Kenneth Fearing: The Big Clock- Raymond E. Feist: Magician
- Raymond E. Feist: Silverthorn
- Raymond E. Feist: A Darkness at Sethanon
- Jens Malte Fischer: Gustav Mahler
- Mark Fisher: The Weird and the Eerie
- Ken Follett: The Pillars of the Earth
- Ken Follett: World Without End
- Ken Follett: A Column of Fire
- Ken Follett: The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follett: Eye of the Needle- Mary Fortune (ed.): Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction
- Jon Fosse: Septology
Phillip Freedenberg and Jeff Walton: America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic- Rodrigo Fresán: The Bottom of the Sky
- Rodrigo Fresán: The Dreamed Part
- Rodrigo Fresán: The Invented Part
- Rodrigo Fresán: The Remembered Part
Josh Alan Friedman: Tales of Times SquareBob Frissell: Nothing in This Book is True But It’s Exactly How Things Are (reread)- Bob Frissell: You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience
- Bob Frissell: Something in This Book is True…
Carlos Fuentes: Terra Nostra- Joseph Furphy: Such is Life
- William Gaddis: JR
William Gaddis: The Recognitions- Cristina Rivera Garza: The Iliac Crest
- William H. Gass: Omensetter’s Luck
- William H. Gass: The Tunnel
- Ričardas Gavelis: Vilnius Poker
Martin Gayford: Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London PaintersDoíreann Ní Ghríofa: A Ghost in the Throat- Catie Gilchrist: Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
- James Gleick: Chaos: Making a New Science (reread)
- E.H. Gombrich: The Story of Art
Mel Gordon: Theater of Fear & Horror: Expanded Edition: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962- Luis Goytisolo: Antagony
- Robert Graves: The Claudius Novels
- James Greenwood: The Seven Curses of London
- James Greenwood: The Wilds of London
- Kate Grenville: Lilian’s Story
- Kate Grenville: Dark Places
Tex Gresham: Sunflower- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Simplicius Simplicissimus
- Lev Grossman: The Magicians
- Lev Grossman: The Magician King
- Lev Grossman: The Magician’s Land
- Vasily Grossman: Life and Fate
- Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad
- Luo Guanzhong: Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Hubert Haddad: Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters
- Garth Risk Hallberg: City on Fire
- M. John Harrison: Light
- M. John Harrison: Nova Swing
- M. John Harrison: Empty Space
- M. John Harrison: The Pastel City
- M. John Harrison: A Storm of Wings
- M. John Harrison: In Zirconium
- M. John Harrison: Zirconium Nights
- M. John Harrison: The Sunken Land Begins to Rise
- Delisle Hay: The Doom of the Great City
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent- John Hersey: Hiroshima
- Werner Herzog: Conquest of the Useless
- Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game (reread)
- Keigo Higashino: The Devotion of Suspect X
- Keigo Higashino: Salvation of a Saint
- Keigo Higashino: A Midsummer’s Equation
- Keigo Higashino: Silent Parade
- Keigo Higashino: Malice
- Keigo Higashino: Journey Under the Midnight Sun
- Keigo Higashino: Newcomer
William Hjörtsberg: Falling Angel (reread)- William Hjörtsberg: Angel’s Inferno
Homer: Iliad (reread)Homer: Odyssey (reread)- Robert Hughes: The Fatal Shore (reread)
- Victor Hugo: Les Misérables
David Hunt: GirtDavid Hunt: True GirtDavid Hunt: Girt Nation- Ronald Hutton: The Witch
- Christopher S. Hyatt: Undoing Yourself With Energised Meditation and Other Devices
- Daniel M. Ingram: Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
- David Ireland: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
- David Ireland: The Chantic Bird
- David Ireland: A Woman of the Future
- David Ireland: The Glass Canoe
Walter Isaacson: Leonardo da VinciChristopher Isherwood: The Berlin Novels- Lee Jackson (ed.): Daily Life in Victorian London: an Extraordinary Anthology
- Lee Jackson: The Diary of a Murderer
- Lee Jackson: Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth
Clive James: Always UnreliableClive James: North Face of SohoClive James: The Blaze of Obscurity- Marlon James: A Brief History of Seven Killings
- N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
- N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate
- N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky
- N. K. Jemisin: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- N. K. Jemisin: The Broken Kingdoms
- N. K. Jemisin: The Kingdom of Gods
- N. K. Jemisin: the Awakened Kingdom
- N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became
- Carsten Jensen: We, The Drowned
Erik Jensen: Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen- Uwe Johnson: Anniversaries
- S.T. Joshi: I Am Providence
James Joyce: Dubliners (reread)James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (reread)James Joyce: Ulysses (reread)- James Joyce: Finnegans Wake
- Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen
- Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole
Marit Kapla: Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village- Yasunari Kawabata: The Izu Dancer
Yasunari Kawabata: The Lake- Patrick Radden Keefe: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- David Keenan: Monument Maker
- Hannah Kent: The Good People
- Gerald Kersh: Clock Without Hands
Gerald Kersh: Night and the City- Gerald Kersh: Fowler’s End
- Paul Kingsnorth: The Wake
- Paul Kingsnorth: Beast
- Paul Kingsnorth: Alexandria
Robert Kirkman: The Walking DeadJulia Kite: Hope & Anchor- Karl Ove Knausgård: My Struggle
- Masayuki Koga: Shakuhachi: Fundamental Technique Guidance
- Masayuki Koga: Shakuhachi: Advanced Techniques & History
Christian Kracht: Imperium- László Krasznahorkai: Satantango
- László Krasznahorkai: The Melancholy of Resistance
- László Krasznahorkai: War & War
- László Krasznahorkai: Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens
- László Krasznahorkai: Seiobo There Below
- László Krasznahorkai: Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
R. F. Kuang: Yellowface- John Kypros: Your Shakuhachi Journey
Paul La Farge: The Night Ocean- Carlos Labbé: Loquela
- Carlos Labbé: Navidad & Matanza
- Carlos Labbé: Spiritual Choreographies
- William Leavitt: A Modern Method for Guitar
Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the OperaMaurice Lever: The Marquis de Sade: A BiographyCixin Liu: The Three-Body ProblemCixin Liu: The Dark ForestCixin Liu: Death’s End- Cixin Liu: Ball Lightning
- Cixin Liu: Hold Up the Sky
- Cixin Liu: The Supernova Era
- Cixin Liu: The Wandering Earth
- Ken Liu: The Grace of Kings
- Ken Liu: The Wall of Storms
- Ken Liu: The Veiled Throne
- Ken Liu: Invisible Planets
- Ken Liu: Broken Stars
- Amanda Lohrey: The Labyrinth
- Elias Lönnrot: Kalevala
- H.P. Lovecraft: assorted omnibus editions (reread)
- Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
- Fitz Hugh Ludlow: The Hasheesh Eater
- Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Scott Lynch: Red Seas Under Red Skies
- Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves
- Malcolm Lyons (tr.): The Arabian Nights (three volumes)
Cormac McCarthy: Blood MeridianEric McCormack: The Paradise Motel (reread)- Eric McCormack: Inspecting the Vaults (reread)
- Eric McCormack: The Mysterium (reread)
- Eric McCormack: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (r)
- Eric McCormack: The Dutch Wife (reread)
- Eric McCormack: Cloud (reread)
Michael McDowell: The Elementals- Michael McDowell: Blackwater
- Joseph McElroy: Ancient History
- Joseph McElroy: Lookout Cartridge
- Joseph McElroy: Women and Men
Andrew McGahan: The Rich Man’s House- Patrick McGilligan: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Lights
- Ian McGuire: The North Water
- Matthew McIntosh: TheMystery.doc
- Meredith McKinney (ed): Travels With a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from The Manyōshū to Bashō
- Kenneth Mackenzie: The Refuge
Naguib Mahfouz: Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth- Naguib Mahfouz: The Cairo Trilogy
- Norman Mailer: Ancient Evenings (reread)
- Norman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song
- Norman Mailer: Oswald’s Tale
- Norman Mailer: Tough Guys Don’t Dance
- Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost
- Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte d’Arthur
- Nick Mamatas: I Am Providence
- John Mandeville: The Book of Marvels
- George Mann: The Affinity Bridge
- George Mann: The Osiris Ritual
- George Mann: The Immorality Engine
- George Mann: The Executioner’s Heart
- George Mann: The Revenant Express
- George Mann: The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes
- George Mann: The Albion Initiative
- George Mann: Ghosts of Manhattan
- George Mann: Ghosts of War
- George Mann: Ghosts of Karnak
- George Mann: Ghosts of Empire
- Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall
- Hilary Mantel: Bring Up the Bodies
- Hilary Mantel: The Mirror & the Light
Walter de la Mare: The Return- David Marr: Patrick White: A Life
Seichō Matsumoto: Tokyo Express- Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
- Henry Mayhew: Labour and the Poor Volumes I-IV: The Metropolitan Districts
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (reread)- Herman Melville: Pierre, or The Ambiguities
- Sara Mesa: Four by Four
Richard Metzger (ed): The Disinfo Book of Lies- Gustav Meyrink: The Golem (reread)
- Gustav Meyrink: The Angel of the West Window (reread)
- Gustav Meyrink: The Green Face (reread)
- Gustav Meyrink: The White Dominican
- Gustav Meyrink: Walpurgisnacht (reread)
- Henry Miller: Sexus
- Henry Miller: Plexus
- Henry Miller: Nexus
- John Milton: Paradise Lost
- Yukio Mishima: The Sea of Fertility (reread)
Yukio Mishima: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion- Minae Mizamura: A True Novel
- Patrick Modiano: Suspended Sentences
- Patrick Modiano: Missing Person
Patrick Modiano: The Black Notebook- Patrick Modiano: After the Circus
Alan Moore: Jerusalem- Alan Moore: Promethea
- Edmund Morris: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Edmund Morris: Theodore Rex
- Edmund Morris: Colonel Roosevelt
Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands- Ottessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Patrick Mullins: Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon
Haruki Murakami: Killing Commendatore- Shikibu Murasaki: Tale of the Genji
- Gerald Murnane: A Million Windows
- Gerald Murnane: A Lifetime on Clouds
- Gerald Murnane: A Season on Earth
Gerald Murnane: Border Districts- Gerald Murnane: The Plains (reread)
- Shi Nai’an: Outlaws of the Marsh
Fuminori Nakamura: The Thief- Fuminori Nakamura: Last Winter We Parted
- Fuminori Nakamura: The Kingdom
- Fuminori Nakamura: The Gun
- Fuminori Nakamura: Evil and the Mask
- Fuminori Nakamura: Cult X
- Louis Nowra: Sydney – A Biography
- Ryan O’Connor: The Voids
Joyce Carol Oates: The Triumph of the Spider Monkey- Bragi Ólafsson: The Pets
- Bragi Ólafsson: The Ambassador
- Bragi Ólafsson: Narrator
Sokyo Ono: Shinto: The Kami Way- Charles Palliser: The Quincunx (reread)
- Miquel de Palol: The Garden of Seven Twilights
- Adam Parfrey: Apocalypse Culture
- I.J. Parker: Akidata series
- Bruce Pascoe: Dark Emu
- David Peace: Nineteen Seventy-Four
- David Peace: Nineteen Seventy-Seven
- David Peace: Nineteen Eighty
- David Peace: Nineteen Eighty-Three
- David Peace: Tokyo Year Zero
- David Peace: Occupied City
- David Peace: Tokyo Redux
- Georges Perec: Life: A User’s Manual (reread)
- Georges Perec: A Void (reread)
- Georges Perec: Portrait of a Man
- Sarah Perry: Melmoth
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (reread)
Peter Polites: Down the HumeDick Porter: Journey to the Centre of The Cramps- Ezra Pound: The Cantos
- Anthony Powell: A Dance to the Music of Time series
- John Cowper Powys: Wolf Solent
- John Cowper Powys: A Glastonbury Romance
- John Cowper Powys: Weymouth Sounds
- John Cowper Powys: Maiden Castle
Michael Pronko: Beauty and Chaos- Michael Pronko: Tokyo Zangyo
- Michael Pronko: Tokyo Traffic
- Michael Pronko: The Moving Blade
- Michael Pronko: The Last Trade
- Michael Pronko: Azabu Getaway
- Michael Pronko: Shitimachi Scam
Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Time- Roger Pulvers: Star Sand
Roger Pulvers: Liv- Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon: Mason & Dixon- Thomas Pynchon: V
- qntm: There is No Antimemetics Division
- Thomas de Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (reread)
- Seabury Quinn: The Horror on the Links
- Seabury Quinn: The Devil’s Rosary
- Seabury Quinn: The Dark Angel
- Seabury Quinn: A Rival from the Grave
- Seabury Quinn: Black Moon
- Rein Raud: The Brother
- Derek Raymond: He Died with His Eyes Open
- Derek Raymond: The Devil’s Home on Leave
- Derek Raymond: How the Dead Live
- Derek Raymond: I Was Dora Suarez
- Derek Raymond: Dead Man Upright
Ishmael Reed: Mumbo JumboFranziska zu Reventlow: The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe- Luke Rhinehart: The Dice Man
- Luke Rhinehart: Adventures of Wim
- Luke Rhinehart: The Search for the Dice Man
Donald Richie The Inland Sea- William Pitt Ridge: Mord Em’ly
- Peter Robb: M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio (reread)
- Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès: Island of Point Nemo
- Mercè Rodoreda: Death in Spring
- Mercè Rodoreda: Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda
- Sax Rohmer: Fu-Manchu compendia
- Clarence Rook: The Hooligan Nights
- Alex Ross: Wagnerism
- Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
- Alex Ross: Listen to This
Matt Ruff: Lovecraft CountryDamon Runyon: On Broadway (reread)- Milen Ruskov: Thrown into Nature
- Juan José Saer: La Grande
- Juan José Saer: Scars
- Juan José Saer: The Clouds
- Juan José Saer: The One Before
- Juan José Saer: The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
- Louis Sahagun: Master of the Mysteries: New Revelations on the Life of Manly Palmer Hall
- Augustus Sala: Twice Round the Clock
Giacomo Sartori: I Am God- Ha Seong-nan: Bluebeard’s Wife
- Ha Seong-nan: Flowers of Mold
Ali Rıza Seyfioğlu: Dracula in Istanbul- Anna Sherman: The Bells of Old Tokyo: Meditations on Time and a City
- Tamara Shopsin: Laserwriter II
Dan Simmons: The Terror- Dan Simmons: The Song of Kali
- Jeffrey Smart: Not Quite Straight: A Memoir
- Charles Many Smith: Curiosities of London Life
- Edmund Spencer: The Faerie Queene
Bob Spitz: The Beatles- Bob Spitz: Led Zeppelin
- Donald Spoto: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
- Albena Stambolova: Everything Happens As It Does
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon (reread)- Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan: Francis Bacon: RevelationsDavid Stevenson: 1914–1918: The History of the First World WarBram Stoker: Dracula (reread)- Randolph Stow: The Girl Green as Elderflower
- Randolph Stow: Visitants
- Randolph Stow: To the Islands
- Randolph Stow: Tourmaline
Boris and Arkady Strugatsky: The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn- Snorri Sturluson: Prose Edda
- Snorri Sturluson: Heimskringla or The Lives of the Norse Kings
- Bae Suah: A Greater Music
- Bae Suah: North Station
- Bae Suah: Nowhere to be Found
- Eugène Sue: The Mysteries of Paris
- Eugène Sue: The Wandering Jew
- John Szwed: Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra
- Kaoru Takamura: Lady Joker Volume 1
- Kaoru Takamura: Lady Joker Volume 2
Philip Meadows Taylor: Confessions of a Thug- Philip Terry: The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
- Alice Thompson: The Book Collector
- Alice Thompson: The Falconer
- Alice Thompson: The Existential Detective
- Alice Thompson: Justine
- Alice Thompson: Pharos
Olga Tokarczuk: FlightsOlga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Tricky: Hell is Round the Corner- François Truffaut: Hitchcock/Truffaut
- Christos Tsiolkas: Damascus
- Christos Tsiolkas: The Jesus Man (reread)
- Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap (reread)
- Christos Tsiolkas: Dead Europe
- Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda
- Christos Tsiolkas: Loaded
- Stuart Turton: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- Stuart Turton: The Devil and the Dark Water
- Christopher Tyerman: How to Plan a Crusade
- Erik Valeur: Seventh Child
- Valmiki: Rāmāyana
- Virgil: Aeneid (reread)
- William T. Vollmann: Europe Central
- William T. Vollmann: The Rainbow Stories
- Antoine Volodine: Bardo or Not Bardo
- Antoine Volodine: Radiant Terminus
Julia Voznesenskaya: The Women’s Decameron- Vyasa: Mahābhārata
- Bruce Wagner: Dead Stars
Clinton Walker: Stranded: Australian Independent Music 1976–1992David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest- Patrick White: Voss (reread)
- Patrick White: Flaws in the Glass
- Patrick White: The Aunt’s Story
- Patrick White: The Tree of Man (reread)
- Patrick White: Riders in the Chariot
- Patrick White: The Solid Mandala (reread)
- Patrick White: The Vivisector
- Patrick White: The Eye of the Storm
- Patrick White: A Fringe of Leaves
- Patrick White: The Twyborn Affair
- Patrick White: The Cockatoos
- Aliya Whiteley: The Loosening Skin
- Aliya Whiteley: Skein
Aliya Whiteley: Skyward Inn- Aliya Whiteley: Greensmith
- Thomas Williams: Whipple’s Castle
- Ashley Wilson: Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
- Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun (reread)
- Gene Wolfe: The Urth of the New Sun
- Gene Wolfe: The Book of the Long Sun
- Gene Wolfe: The Book of the Short Sun
- Gene Wolfe: The Sorcerer’s House
- Alexis Wright: Carpentaria
- Alexis Wright: Praiseworthy
- Lawrence Wright: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Wu Cheng’en: Journey to the West
- Can Xue: Vertical Motion
- Cao Xueqin: Dream of the Red Chamber
- Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life
- Frances Yates: The Art of Memory (reread)
- Frances Yates: Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (reread)
- Frances Yates: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (reread)
- Frances Yates: The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (reread)
- John Yates: The Mind Illuminated
- Hideo Yokoyama: Six Four
- Hideo Yokoyama: Seventeen
- Hideo Yokoyama: Prefecture D
- Eiji Yoshikawa: Musashi
- Eiji Yoshikawa: Taiko
- Eiji Yoshikawa: Uesugi Kenshin
- Eiji Yoshikawa: Taira no Masakado
- Eiji Yoshikawa: Kuroda Josui
- Eiji Yoshikawa: The New Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Ronin
- Marguerite Young: Miss Macintosh, My Darling
- Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
Michael Zielenziger: Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation
Not forgetting…
- Religious texts: the Bible, the Qur’an and the Talmud
- The Fantasy Masterworks and Sci-Fi Masterworks series of books
- 33-1/3 books
- A load of Penguin Classics I’ve yet to crack
- Whatever I have bought on my Kindle
- Music theory and practice texts
- Mythological works
- Pulp and airport novels
- Meditation texts: both general and zen
- Anthologies: both Norton and of Japanese literature
- Ancient history texts
- Science texts
- Philosophical/theoretical works
- Occult texts, both historical and practical
- Tarot texts
- Art books: Taschen and Thames & Hudson, mostly
As you can see, there’s more than enough to keep me going until I shuffle off. Of course, I ignore this and keep buying more books because the perfect one is just around the corner.
Yeah nah. 