mirror of a reading list i keep in my wallet
requested by ~kmx

x : "completed"
· : "on my shelf"
~ : "dropped" or "skipped"
* : "starred"

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x a universal history of infamy - borges
x animal liberation - peter singer *
x solaris - stanislaw lem
x a canticle for leibowitz - walter m. miller *
x beyond good and evil - friedrich nietzche
~ recipes for disaster - crimethinc
x denial of death, x escape from evil - ernest becker *
~ the hobbit, the lord of the rings - tolkien
~ the journey to the west - trans. anthony c. yu
~ a new program for graphic design - david reinfurt
x always coming home - ursula le guin *
x death of a red heroine - qiu xiaolong
~ li shangyin - trans. chloe garcia roberts
~ space settlements - fred scharmen
~ night heron etc - adam brookes
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x exhalation - ted chiang
x the decagon house murders - yukito ayatsuji
~ the face in the frost - john bellairs
x the i wonder bookstore - shinsuke yoshitake
  the walking man - jiro taniguchi
~ this dreaming isle - ed. dan coxon
x moon palace - paul auster
~ the 42nd parallel - john dos passos
~ the red and the black - stendhal
x the course of love - alain de botton
  parade's end - ford
  out of sheer rage - geoff dyer
  peace like a river - leif enger
x darkness at noon - arthur koestler
  a prayer for owen meany - irving
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· the beautiful and damned - fitzgerald
· seagull, uncle vanya, three sisters, and cherry orchard - anton chekhov
x the savage detectives - roberto bolaño
  sheppey - w. somerset maugham
  the razor's edge - w. somerset maugham
  a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki
  aseroë - françois dominique
  the curse workers series - holly black
  vicious - v. e. schwab
  the secret history - tartt
  metaphors we live by - lakoff and johnson
  all that the rain promises and more: a hip pocket guide to western mushrooms
  pattern recognition - william gibson
  the dandelion dynasty series - ken liu
  annihilation - jeff vandermeer
  a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
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  the nix - nathan hill
  lake success - gary shteyngart
  tropic of cancer - henry miller
  journey to the end of the night - louis ferdinand celine
  crime and punishment - dostoyevsky
  ficciones - borges
  the floating opera - barth
  death in venice - thomas mann
  gravity's rainbow - thomas pynchon
  meditations on violence - rory miller
  personal writings - camus
  basic economics - thomas sowell
  permutation city - greg egan
  hopscotch - julio cortázar
  the watchmaker of filigree street - natasha pulley
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  shipwreck - akira yoshimura
  as i crossed a bridge of dreams - lady sarashina
  grotesque - natsuo kirino
  in the miso soup - ryu murakami
  the gossamer years - the mother of michitsuna
  the painted bird - jerzy kosinski
  ico: castle in the mist - miyuki miyabe
  the book of heroes - miyuki miyabe
  the sleeping dragon - miyuki miyabe
  out - natsuo kirino
  pachinko - min jin lee
  penguin book of japanese short stories
  strange weather in tokyo - hiromi kawakami
  cloud of sparrows and autumn bridge - takashi matsuoka
x the devotion of suspect x - keigo higashino
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  the pillow book - sei shonagon
· a thousand years of good prayers - yiyun li
  a cat, a man, and two women - junichiro tanizaki
· the factory - hiroko oyamada
x the emissary - yoko tawada
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