My Year in Books - 2025
Ah obscenity — an homage to the American author who taught me to swear in Spanish — here we go again.
To my chagrin, this has not been the most productive year in terms of clearing out my to-be-read shelf. I have nought to blame but myself. And The Witcher 3. And Black Myth: Wukong. And Expedition 33. And my six-year-old kitten, who would invariably scramble up and demand attention whenever he sees me retire to the rocking chair, book in hand. So on and so forth.
Let’s cut to the chase. 2025 is not getting any longer.
Mythologies
The Negro of Peter the Great; Dubrovsky; The Queen of Spades; The Captain’s Daughter
Far From the Madding Crowd
Down and Out in Paris and London
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
East of Eden
The Essential Schopenhauer
To the Lighthouse
Berenice; Eleonora
The Fall
The Last Day of a Condemned Man; Claude gueux
The Idiot
The Human Condition
This Side of Paradise
The Three-Body Problem
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Barchester Towers
The Quiet American
The Glass Bead Game
The Turn of the Screw
Homage to Catalonia
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Guermantes Way
Dune Messiah
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Secret of Secrets
The Chrysalids
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pensées
Roland Barthes
Katabasis
The Last of the Mohicans
(Currently Reading) How the Steel Was Tempered
(Currently Reading) This Is Not a Pipe
