Reading list

I used to use GoodReads, here’s my profile. I don’t particularly like the website anymore so I’ve decided to archive my reading list here.

Entries beginning with a lambda (λ) hold significant personal meaning.

Reading

  1. The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy.
  2. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller.
  3. The Burnout Society, by Byung-Chul Han.

Have Read

2024
  1. Naked, by David Sedaris.
  2. Threshold, by Rob Doyle.
  3. (λ) The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran.
  4. Sand and Foam, by Kahlil Gibran.
  5. How To Live: A Life Of Montaigne, by Sarah Bakewell.
  6. (λ) Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.
  7. The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati.
  8. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
  9. Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview, by Anthony Bourdain.
  10. Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie.

2023
  1. (λ) If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino.
  2. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh.
  3. Clear Light of Day, by Anita Desai.
  4. (λ) Leaving Las Vegas, by John O’Brien.
  5. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs.
  6. Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
  7. The Trouble With Being Born, by Emil Cioran.
  8. The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker.
  9. Candide, by Voltaire.
  10. Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre.
  11. Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre, by Walter Kaufmann.
  12. The Rum Diary, by Hunter S. Thompson.
  13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson.
  14. (λ) Letters To a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke.
  15. A Pale View of The Hills, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
  16. Klara and The Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
  17. The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk.
  18. (λ) Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing & Life, by Anne Lamott.
  19. (λ) Mere Dil, Mere Musafir, by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
  20. Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake.