My Year in Books - 2024
Yet another year is coming to its end, which means it’s the time for me to emerge from the depths of obscurity and post the annual update of the double progress, on the one hand to educate myself, and on the other, to nourish my soul.
I am well aware of my lack of sedulousness to share my thoughts on the books I have read, for which I give no excuse.
Even though there is only a handful of new authors with whose oeuvre I have become acquainted throughout this year, most of whom, including Goethe, Hesse, Zola, Žižek, Proust, have left on me profound and lasting marks.
The Fall of the House of Usher (reread); Silence – A Fable; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado (reread); The Imp of Perverse; The Island of the Frey; The Raven
Critique of Pure Reason
Catch-22
A Room of One’s Own / Three Guineas
Life, the Universe and Everything
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Faust
Slaughterhouse-Five
Steppenwolf
Creating a Brand Identity: A Guide for Designers
Germinal
The Sublime Object of Ideology
Fathers and Sons
The Bell Jar
The Assignation
Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War and US Political Culture
Pale Fire
A Very Easy Death
White Nights
A Gentle Creature
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Heart of a Dog
Leviathan
Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
The Master and Margarita
The Premature Burial; The Domain of Arnheim; Landor’s Cottage; William Wilson
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Why I Write
The Sonnets and A Lover’s Complaint
Oliver Twist
Light in August
Crossover Creativity: Real-life stories about where creativity comes from
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Ficciones
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Swann’s Way
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Breakfast of Champions
The Vegetarian
Demian
Poetry, Language, Thought
Within a Budding Grove
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
(Currently Reading) Mythologies