I started keeping track of the books I’ve read in 2018. Added a bunch of other ones from memory.
I got really into history around 2010 which started with various histories of Rome, progressed to medieval European history. I’ve now settled on 19th Century European as my “favorite” period in the past to read about.
COVID lockdown seems to have re-activated the reading circuits.
Year | Book Title | Author | Subject | Notes |
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2020 | Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? | Mark Fisher | Current Events | |
2020 | The Schoolhouse Gate | Justin Driver | Constitutional Law | Started 2019 |
2020 | Nana | Émile Zola | French Literature | |
2020 | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt | History | |
2020 | The War of Wars: European Conflict 1793 - 1815 | Robert Harvey | History | |
2020 | The Thirty Years War | CV Wedgwood | History | |
2020 | The Triumph of the Dark: European International History, 1933-1938 | Zara Steiner | History | Started 2017 |
2020 | The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 | Richard J Evans | History | Started 2017 |
2020 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Fiction | Re-read; first read ~2006 |
2020 | Mason & Dixon | Thomas Pynchon | Fiction | Started 2010 |
2019 | The Guns of August | Barbara Tuchman | History | Started 2018 |
2019 | The Lathe of Heaven | Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction | |
2019 | Chapterhouse Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2019 | Heretics of Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2019 | What If This Were Enough? | Heaver Havrilesky | Essays | |
2019 | The Republic, Crito, Apology, Phaedo | Plato | Literature | Audiobook |
2019 | Right Ho, Jeeves | PG Wodehouse | Fiction (Humor) | Audiobook |
2019 | A Fisherman of the Inland Sea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction | |
2019 | My Man Jeeves | PG Wodehouse | Fiction (Humor) | Audiobook |
2019 | Tehanu | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | |
2018 | The Farthest Shore | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | |
2018 | The Tombs of Atuan | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | |
2018 | A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fantasy | |
2018 | The Reactionary Mind | Corey Robin | Current-events | |
2018 | God-Emperor of Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2018 | Children of Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2018 | Misquoting Jesus | Bart D. Ehrman | Religion | |
2018 | Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2018 | Dune | Frank Herbert | Science Fiction | |
2018 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction | |
2018 | The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | Science Fiction | |
2018 | A Distant Mirror | Barbara Tuchman | History | |
2018 | Why The West Rules For Now | Ian Morris | History | |
2018 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | Literature | Re-read, audiobook |
2018 | Winnie-the-Pooh | AA Milne | Children’s Literature | Re-read, audiobook |
2018 | House on Pooh Corner | AA Milne | Children’s Literature | Re-read, audiobook |
2017 | To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 | Ian Kershaw | History | |
2017 | The Lights That Failed: European International History, 1919-1933 | Zara Steiner | History | |
2017 | The End of Europe | Jaime Kirchick | Current Events | |
2017 | Germinal | Émile Zola | French Literature | |
2016 | The Romanovs: 1613-1918 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | History | |
2016 | Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 | Robert Gildea | History | |
2015 | The Thirty Year’s War, Europe’s Tragedy | Peter Wilson | History | |
2015 | The Reformation: A History | Diarmaid MacCulloch | History | |
2015 | Europe in the High Middle Ages | William Jordan | History | |
2015 | Iron Kingdom: Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600 - 1947 | Christopher Clark | History | Started 2014 |
2014 | The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 | Tim Blanning | ||
2014 | Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust | Novel | Re-read; Audiobook |
2013 | The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 | Christopher Wickham | History | |
2012 | 1587, A Year of No Significance | Ray Huang | History | |
2012 | Antony and Cleopatra | Adrian Goldsworthy | History | |
2012 | Caesar | Adrian Goldsworthy | History | |
2012 | How Rome Fell | Adrian Goldsworthy | History |
Grad School
I read a bunch in grad school, mostly from the “modern canon”.
- In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust (all of the books over the course of 3 years)
- Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob’s Room, The Waves, To The Lighthouse, The Voyage Out
- Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, How It Is
- Franz Kafka: Amerika, The Castle, The Trial
- Vladamir Nabokov: Lolita, Pale Fire, The Eye, Bend Sinister, most of Invitation to a Beheading, The Eye
- Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49
- Haruki Murakami: Norweigan Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, After the Quake