CONTENTS: - WALLET READING LIST (2021) - BOOKS I'VE ACTUALLY READ SINCE (2021-2024) 2024-10-16: I don't think I will be updating this anymore. I want to free myself from the tyranny of lists! ================================================ WALLET READING LIST (2021) a reading list i used to keep in my wallet requested by ~kmx x : completed · : currently reading ~ : dropped or skipped * : starred the dashed lines indicate the folds in the paper ------------------------------------------------ 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 * x 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ · the beautiful and damned - fitzgerald x 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 x a tale for the time being - ruth ozeki aseroë - françois dominique the curse workers series - holly black vicious - v. e. schwab x 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 x the southern reach trilogy (annihilation etc) - jeff vandermeer a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------ the pillow book - sei shonagon x a thousand years of good prayers - yiyun li x a cat, a man, and two women - junichiro tanizaki x the factory - hiroko oyamada x the emissary - yoko tawada ================================================ BOOKS I'VE ACTUALLY READ SINCE (2021-2024) 2024 - the temple of dawn (by yukio mishima) (the sea of fertility #3) - the decay of the angel (the sea of fertility #4) - a deadly education (scholomance #1) (by naomi novik) - the last graduate (scholomance #2) (by naomi novik) - the golden enclaves (scholomance #3) (by naomi novik) - earthlings (by sayaka murata) (tr. ginny tapley takemori)) - a tale for the time being (by ruth ozeki) (narr. ruth ozeki) - more vorkosigan saga (by lois mcmaster bujold) (on and off) 2023 - the sandman: the dream hunters (by neil gaiman) (illust. yoshitaka amano) - remainder (by tom mccarthy) - the devotion of suspect x (by keigo higashino) - a thousand years of good prayers (by yiyun li) - chekhov: the four major plays: seagull, uncle vanya, three sisters, and cherry orchard (by anton chekhov, tr. curt columbus) - the factory (by hiroko oyamada) - the narrow cage and other modern fairy tales (by vasili eroshenko) (tr. adam kuplowsky) - annihilation (by jeff vandermeer) (also the rest of the southern reach trilogy) - the prestige (by christopher priest) (narr. simon vance) - mr. penumbra's 24-hour bookstore (by robin sloan) (narr. ari fliakos) - glamorama (by bret easton ellis) - the lathe of heaven (by ursula k. le guin) - spring snow (the sea of fertility #1) (by yukio mishima) - closer (short story by greg egan) - shards of honor (vorkosigan saga #1) (by lois mcmaster bujold) - barrayar (vorkosigan saga #2) (by lois mcmaster bujold) - through the flash (from friday black) (by nana kwame adjei-brenyah) - ancillary justice (imperial radch #1) (by ann leckie) - ancillary sword (imperial radch #2) (by ann leckie) - ancillary mercy (imperial radch #3) (by ann leckie) - four arguments for the elimination of television (by jerry mander) - the secret history (by donna tartt) - children of time (by adrian tchaikovsky) - the hobbit (read by andy serkis) - runaway horses (the sea of fertility #2) (by yukio mishima) - gone girl (by gillian flynn) (narr. julia whelan, kirby heyborn) 2022 - beyond good and evil - friedrich nietzsche - the denial of death - ernest becker - men without women - haruki murakami - moon palace - paul auster - escape from evil - ernest becker - axiom's end - lindsay ellis - tokyo ueno station - yu miri - always coming home - ursula le guin - death of a red heroine - qiu xiaolong - the i wonder bookstore - shinsuke yoshitake - darkness at noon - arthur koestler - exhalation - ted chiang - the employees - olga ravn - the course of love - alain de botton - the savage detectives - roberto bolaño - the decagon house murders - yukito ayatsuji - falling leaves - adeline yen mah - the emissary - yoko tawada 2021 - a universal history of infamy by jorge luis borges - goodbye, again by jonny sun - animal liberation by peter singer - solaris by stanislaw lem - a canticle for leibowitz