currently reading
Mark Fisher
David Foster Wallace
Edith Hamilton
Tove Ditlevsen
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
fiction
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
Ted Chiang
JK Rowling
Albert Camus
Emily Brontë
Donna Tartt
Hermann Hesse
Don Delillo
Oscar Wilde
Matthew Quick
Beatrix Potter
Yukio Mishima
Natsuko Imamura
Yukio Mishima
Milan Kundera
Philip Roth
Donna Tartt
Chuck Pahlanhuik
George Orwell
James Joyce
JRR Tolkien
Italo Calvino
JD Salinger
Raymond Carver
Milan Kundera
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Yasunari Kawabata
Joan Didion
Kurt Vonnegut
Bret Easton Ellis
Joan Didion
Ernest Hemingway
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Haruki Murakami
Sally Rooney
Franz Kafka
Bret Easton Ellis
Vladimir Nabokov
Rick Moody
Matt Haig
Nick Hornby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Ernest Hemingway
Tom Perotta
David Foster Wallace
Roald Dahl
Joseph Heller
Kurt Vonnegut
Truman Capote
Aldous Huxley
Sylvia Plath
Haruki Murakami
non fiction
Slavoj Žižek
John Bolster
Yukio Mishima
Friedrich Nietzsche
to-read
I have a burning hatred for the Goodreads and Storygraph UIs and the personalities drawn to it, so I am demoing the use of this page to manage the books on my tbr. I am not expecting to ever complete this list.
classical
Homer Homer Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Chaucer Dante Alighieri Sun Tzu Lao Tzu Shakespeare Anonymous Wu Cheng’en Shi Nai’an Cao Xueqin Luo Guanzhong Wu Ching-tzu
classics
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jane Austen Jane Austen Jane Austen Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolai Gogol Charles Dickens Charlotte Brontë Alexandre Dumas William Makepeace Thackeray Herman Melville Walt Whitman Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Eugène Fromentin Ivan Turgenev Victor Hugo Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky Leo Tolstoy George Eliot Gustave Flaubert Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky Friedrich Nietzsche Mark Twain Leo Tolstoy Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche Rudyard Kipling Bram Stoker Joseph Conrad Jack London Kenneth Grahame Frances Hodgson Burnett Marcel Proust Natsume Sōseki W. Somerset Maugham Edith Wharton James Joyce Hermann Hesse Italo Svevo Virginia Woolf Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Thomas Mann Dorothy Parker F. Scott Fitzgerald Franz Kafka Franz Kafka Ernest Hemingway Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Willa Cather Virginia Woolf Erich Maria Remarque Anton Chekhov Evelyn Waugh Robert Musil William Faulkner Louis-Ferdinand Céline Bruno Schulz Jun'ichirō Tanizaki John O'Hara Henry Miller H.P. Lovecraft Witold Gombrowicz John Steinbeck Evelyn Waugh Jean-Paul Sartre Nathanael West Raymond Chandler John Steinbeck Carson McCullers Ernest Hemingway Albert Camus Jorge Luis Borges Osamu Dazai George Orwell Arthur Miller Samuel Beckett John Steinbeck Saul Bellow L.P. Hartley Ray Bradbury Anaïs Nin J.R.R. Tolkien William Golding Graham Greene William Gaddis Vladimir Nabokov Yukio Mishima Albert Camus Eugene O'Neill Boris Pasternak Jack Kerouac Elaine Dundy Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Chinua Achebe Günter Grass William S. Burroughs John Updike Walker Percy V.S. Naipaul Kōbō Abe Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Anthony Burgess James Baldwin Ken Kesey Vladimir Nabokov Yukio Mishima Julio Cortázar Thomas Pynchon Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Bohumil Hrabal Sylvia Plath John Williams Tom Wolfe Jean Rhys Truman Capote Thomas Pynchon Anna Kavan Kenzaburō Ōe Mikhail Bulgakov Flann O'Brien S.E. Hinton Gabriel García Márquez
contemporary
Jerzy Kosiński Peter S. Beagle Hunter S. Thompson Flannery O'Connor Kōbō Abe Martin Amis Thomas Pynchon J.G. Ballard Heinrich Böll Imre Kertész Charles Bukowski Manuel Puig Bohumil Hrabal Ann Beattie Georges Perec Iris Murdoch Ann Beattie John Cheever Milan Kundera Guy Davenport John Kennedy Toole Umberto Eco Salman Rushdie Paul Auster Charles Bukowski Jim Dodge Ron Hansen Angela Carter Anita Brookner Marguerite Duras Thomas Pynchon William Gibson Jay McInerney Jan Morris Peter Carey Orhan Pamuk Leena Krohn Don DeLillo Richard P. Feynman Gabriel García Márquez Orson Scott Card Cormac McCarthy Peter Handke Paul Auster Toni Morrison Tom Wolfe Salman Rushdie Umberto Eco László Krasznahorkai Kazuo Ishiguro William Styron Michael Cunningham Bret Easton Ellis W.G. Sebald Neal Stephenson Ivan Klíma Jeffrey Eugenides Irvine Welsh Mavis Gallant Haruki Murakami Penelope Fitzgerald Shena Mackay Barry Unsworth José Saramago Andrea Barrett Neil Gaiman Ryū Murakami Jean-Dominique Bauby Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon Philip Roth Tom Wolfe Orhan Pamuk Bret Easton Ellis Jhumpa Lahiri Neal Stephenson Lan Samantha Chang Margaret Atwood Michael Chabon Etgar Keret Carlos Ruiz Zafón Ian McEwan Alice Munro Jonathan Franzen Elena Ferrante Haruki Murakami Mary Yukari Waters Jhumpa Lahiri Audrey Niffenegger John Ajvide Lindqvist Tom Wolfe David Mitchell Yōko Ogawa Salman Rushdie William T. Vollmann Joan Didion Kazuo Ishiguro Bret Easton Ellis Muriel Barbery Jaroslav Rudiš John Updike George Saunders Tana French Peter Cameron Karl Ove Knausgård Hilary Mantel Michel Houellebecq Asko Sahlberg Jennifer Egan Tan Twan Eng Andy Weir Jennifer duBois Maria Semple David Park Eleanor Catton Etgar Keret Thomas Pynchon David Miller Sue Roe Joshua Cohen Lauren Elkin David Grann Stephen Clarke Ann Patchett Erin Morgenstern Fredrik Backman Jenny Erpenbeck R.F. Kuang Natalie Hodges Graham Robb John Waters Ed Park Eleanor Catton Sebastian Barry Catherine Lacey Sarah Bernstein Martin MacInnes Anthony Bale Nicole Kobie Nell Greenfieldboyce J.D. Salinger Michel Houellebecq
sci-fi & fantasy
sports
history
philosophy
Søren Kierkegaard
Max Horkheimer & Theodor W. Adorno
general non-fiction
George Mardsen
Bill Bryson
Dennis Bloodworth & Ching-pei Bloodworth
John E. Willis
Philip Ivanhoe & Bryan van Norden
Hans Georg Moller
Bill Porter
Meir Shahar
Chuck Klosterman
John Green
Rebecca Giggs
Susan Sontag
Eve Babitz
Robert M. Pirsig
Joan Didion
Tom Wolfe
Edward Frenkel
Simon Reynolds
Ingo F. Walther
misc
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