1. Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy — ✔️
2. Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin — ✔️
3. The Wager, by David Grann — ✔️
4. Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges — ✔️
5. on earth we're briefly gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong — ✔️
6. Babel, by R. F. Kuang — ✔️
7. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez — ✔️
8. Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️ [8 thru 19 read over a 3 mo period]
9. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
10. The Guermantes Way, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
11. Sodom & Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
12. The Prisoner, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
13. The Fugitive, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
14. Finding Time Again, by Marcel Proust — ✔️
15. Proust's Way, by Roger Shattuck; — ✔️
16. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time, by Patrick Alexander — ✔️
17. Lost Time, by Józef Czapski; — ✔️
18. Proust and the Squid, by Maryanne Wolf; — ✔️
19. Proust Was A Neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer; — ✔️
20. In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes — ✔️
21. A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes — ✔️
22. The Enchanters, by James Ellroy — ✔️
23. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, by William H. Gass — ✔️
To The Ends of The Earth (trilogy):
24. Rites of Passage — ✔️
25. Close Quarters — ✔️
26. Fire Down Below — ✔️
—by William Golding
27. The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker — ✔️
28. A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel — ✔️
29. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver — ✔️
30. The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal — ✔️
31. The Saga of Icelanders, trans by various; intro: Jane Smiley — ✔️
32. The Popol Vuh, transl/edited by Lewis Spence — ✔️
33. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, by Douglas Adams (5 novels + shrt story, omnibus) — ✔️
34. The Mabinogion, transl by Jeffrey Gantz — ✔️
35. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, transl by Simon Armitage — ✔️
[+ Tolkien's translation, read in tandem ]
36. The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, transl by Royall Tyler — ✔️
37. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong (Penguin, Martin Palmer transl) — ✔️
38. The Landmark Anabasis, by Xenophon — ✔️
39. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, from Sumer, transl by Wolkstein & Kramer — ✔️
40. The Oxford History of the Biblical World — ✔️
41. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders — ✔️
42. The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
43. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The House of the Dead (1862)
*Notes from Underground (1864) — ✔️
*The Gambler (1866)
44. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — ✔️
45. Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert — ✔️
46. The Human Comedy, by Honoré de Balzac, NYRB transl — ✔️
47. The Decameron, by Boccaccio, Rebhorn transl — ✔️
48. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk — ✔️
49. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville — ✔️
50. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by Chateaubriand, Penguin Classics — ✔️
51. The Works of Horace: The Art of Poetry, Odes, Epodes, Satires And Epistles — ✔️?
52. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce — ✔️
53. Ulysses, by James Joyce — ✔️
54. Ulysses Annotated, Gifford/Seidman — ✔️
55. The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, by Patrick Hastings — ✔️
56. The Táin, from the Irish epic Táin B ó Cuailnge (Thomas Kinsella, transl) — ✔️
57. Cervantes's Don Quixote, by Roberto González Echevarría, Open Yale Courses — ✔️
58. Lectures on Don Quixote, by Nabokov (k) — ✔️
59. Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Edith Grossman, transl) — ✔️
60. Imperial Spain, by J. H. Elliott — ✔️
61. Exemplary Stories, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra — ✔️
62. The Golden Bough, by James Frazier — ✔️
63. The Journey to the West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 1 — ✔️
64. Anthology of Chinese Literature Vol 1, edited by Cyril Birch — ✔️
65. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 2 — ✔️
66. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 3 — ✔️
67. West, transl by Anthony C. Yu, Vol 4 — ✔️
68. Anthology of Chinese Literature Vol 2, edited by Cyril Birch — ✔️
70. The Real Tripitaka and other pieces, by Arthur Waley — ✔️
71. Cervante's Don Quixote, A Casebook, edited by Echevarría — ✔️
72. The Aeneid, by Virgil, transl by Fagles — ✔️
73. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy — ✔️
74. The Book of Songs, transl by Arthur Whaley — ✔️
75. Sources of Chinese Tradition, from earliest times to 1600 (Vol 1), transl by De Bary & Bloom (1000 pgs)
76. The Story of the Stone, a chapter-by-chapter guide, by Egan & Hsien-Yung (250 pgs)
77. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 1
78. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 2
79. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 3
80. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 4
81. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuequin, vol 5
82. Edda, by Snorri Sturluson
83. James, by Percival Everett
84. Description of Greece, by Pausatanias (K)
85. Complete Works, by David Hume (K)
86. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (K)
87. Amadis de Gaul, transl by Cadell and Davies (K)
88. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto (K)
89. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
90. The Trivium
91. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, by Erich Auerbach
92. Theory of Literature, by Paul H Fry
93. The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann (K)
94. Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (K)
95. Doctor Faustus,by Thomas Mann
96. Tolstoy's or Doestoevsky, an Essay in the Old Criticism, by George Steiner (K)
97. Lectures on Russian Literature, by Vladimir Nabakov (K)
98. Crime and Punishment (1866)
99. The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
100. The Idiot (1869)
101. Demons (1872)
102. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (K)
103. Pot Luck, by Emile Zola
104. Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell
105. Dante, Open Yale Courses
106. Inferno, by Dante, Hollander transl
107. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander transl
108. Paradisio, by Dante, Hollander transl
109. Paradise Lost, by John Milton
110. Psalms, Torah, JPS translation
111. Satyricon, by Petronius
112. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius — (finish)
113. The Nature of Middle-Earth, by J. R. R. Tolkien
114. The Silmarrilion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
115. Lempriere's Dictionary, by Lawrence Norfolk
116. The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
117. Unknown Masterpieces, edited by Edwin Frank
118. Beautiful Evidence, by Edward Tufte
119. The Comforts of the Abyss, by Philip Schultz;
failure, by Philip Schultz;
120. best poetry 2023
[+20 poems each by select list of twenty poets: ]
121. Free Indirect, by Timothy Bowes
122. Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks
123. The Emigrants, by W. G. Sebald
124. 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
125. Macunaíma (The Hero With No Character), by Mário de Andrade
126. The Treasure of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan
127. Epitaph for a Small Winner, by Machado de Assis
128. Three Major Plays, by Lope de Vega, Edwards transl
129. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (K)
130. 10:04, by Ben Lerner
131. The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
132. A Month in the Country, by J.L. Carr
133. Histories Grecques, by Maurice Sartre — (finish)
134. Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
135. The Metamorphoses, Ovid, Miller transl
136. Stay True, by Hua Hsu
137. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
138. Touch, by Elmore Leonard
139. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
140. The Somme, by Peter Hart
141. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt (K)
142. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama
143. The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
144. Truth and Repair, by Judith Herman, MD
145. The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
146. The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (K)
147. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov — (finish)
148. Blindness, by Jose Saramago
149. My Antonia, by Willa Cather — (finish)
150. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
151. The Night Watchmen, by Louise Erdrich
152. The Trial by Franz Kafka
153. Americanah, by Chimamanda
154. The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
155. Middlemarch by George Eliot
156. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
157. The Last Mughal, by William Dalrymple — (finish)
158. The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
+ The Sense of Style, by Stephen Pinker
159. Weekends at Bellevue, by Julie Holland, M.D.
160. When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball
161. Looking for Spinoza, by Antonio R. Damasio
162. A Book Forged in Hell, by Steve Nadler
163. The Bird Artist, by Howard Norman
164. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood (K)
165. The Landmark Campaigns of Julius Caesar, edited by Robert Strassler (finish)
166. Underworld, by Don DeLillo (finish)
167. A New World Begins, by Jeremy D. (K)
168. Death in Venice and other stories, by Thomas Mann (K)
169. Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin (K)
170. The Ten Thousand Things, by Marina Dermoût (K)
171. The Outsider, by Stephen King (K)
172. The Caprices, by Silvana Murray (K)
173. Live or Die, by Anne Sexton (K)
174. The Corrections, by William H. Gass
175. God's Chinese Son, by Jonathan Spence (finish)
176. Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee (finish)
177. **[The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691172684/?coliid=I2MPSYSFLK4O8B&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
178. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (K)
179. Purgatorio, by Dante, Hollander translation (FINISH)
180. The New York Stories of Edith Wharton, nyrb (K)
181. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
182. Absolam, Absolam! , by William Faulkner
183. Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams
184. The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow
185. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
186. The Iliad by Homer
187. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
188. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
189. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
190. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
191. The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
192. The Ramayana by Valmiki
193. Hiroshima by John Hersey [re-READ]
194. The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
195. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
196. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
197. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine
198. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
199. The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
200. Our Town, by Thornton Wilder
201. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
202. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
203. Middlemarch, by George Eliot
204. The Dirty Dust, by Máirtin O Cadhain
205. Chronicles of Jean Froissart
206. Poems of Wang Wei
207. Satires of Juvenal
208. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
209. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius
210. Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
211. The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White
212. The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
213. Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
214. One Thousand and One Nights
215. Njal's Saga
216. The Outermost House, by Henry Beston
217. The Heptameron, by Marguerite de Navarre
218. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Matsuo Basho
219. The Conference of the Birds, by Attar
220. The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton
221. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours
222. Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke
223. Krieg, by Ludwig Renn
224. The Tale of the Heike
225. Antigone, by Sophocles
226. Poems of Du Fu
227. The Scholars, by Wu Jingzi
228. Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
229. Poems of Catullus
230. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
231. Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer
232. A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman
233. The Mahabharata, by Vyasa
234. Stories of Lu Xun
235. A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
236. Odes of Catullus
237. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (?)
238. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
239. Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles
240. The Secret History by Procopius
241. Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
242. The Republic, by Plato
243. The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth
244. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
245. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
246. Roughing It, by Mark Twain
247. The Story of the Stone, by Cao Xuegin
248. Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell
249. Confessions of Saint Augustine
250. Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto
251. The First Folio of William Shakespeare
252. Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth, Samuel Tavlor Coleridge
253. The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
254. The Demons, by Heimito von Doderer
255. On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin
256. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli
257. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West
258. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
259. The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
260. The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (READ Landmark edition)
261. On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius
262. The Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell
263. The Poetic Edda
264. Annals of Imperial Rome, by Tacitus [I READ IT]
265. North and South, by Elizabeth Bishop
266. Germinal, by Émile Zola
267. The Water Margin, by Shi Nai'an
268. History of the Conquest of Mexico, by William H. Prescott
269. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
270. Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
271. The Last of the Just, by André (Gide?)
272. A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes
273. Hindoo Holiday, by J.R. Ackerley
274. The Unknown Masterpiece, by Honoré de Balzac
275. Seven Men, by Max Beerbohm
276. On The Yard, by Malcolm Braly
277. The Radiance of the King, by Camara Laye
278. The Go-Between, by L.P. Hartley
279. Classic Crimes, by William Roughead
280. The Golovlyov Family, by Shchedrin
281. The Unpossessed, by Tess Slesinger
282. The Life of Henry Brulard, by Stendhal
283. The Pilgrims Hawk, by Glenway Wescott
284. The Honey and the Hemlock, by Eli Sagan
285. The Yellow Cross, by Rene Meis
286. A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf (K)
287. Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd (K)
288. Less, by Andrew Sean Greer (Apple)
289. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Apple)
290. Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Apple)
291. The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (Apple)
292. A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park (Apple)
293. A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Conner (Apple)
294. Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Apple)
295. Gulag, by Anne Applebaum (Apple)
296. Not My Father's Son, by Alan Cumming (Apple)
297. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker (Apple)
298. Phantom on the Bookshelves, Jacques Bonnet
299. The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (The Annotated Books) [The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights \(The Annotated Books\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631493639/?coliid=I2Y52LAMFFYWL4&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=0&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
300. Arabian Nights (Collins Classics) https://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-Collins-Classics-Richard/dp/0007420102/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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303. **[A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems \(New York Review Books: Poets\)](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681376482/?coliid=I2EBO8YA37JBV9&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)**
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321. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, by François-René de Chateaubriand
322. [Monsieur Proust \(New York Review Books Classics\)by Céleste Albaret, Barbara Bray](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1590170598/?coliid=I2OJKZJ3FDUCEW&colid=1OQFH9WTTJOIO&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it)
323. The Immoralist (Penguin Classics), by Andre Gide, David Watson