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Books I've Read

I want to start recording the books I read.

Those in bold are recommended, italicized are rereads.

2025

(I do not remember every book I read on this year)
Stoner - John Williams
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
The History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffery of Monmouth
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
Virtually all of the Conan stories written by Robert E. Howard
S/Z - Roland Barthes
The Knight of the Cart - Chretien de Troyes
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion - Chretien de Troyes
Well Wrought Urn - Cleanth Brooks
Perceval - Chretien de Troyes
The Once And Future King - T. H. White
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach
The Peregrine - J. A. Baker
The Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation) - Homer
The Illiad (Emily Wilson translation) - Homer

2026

The Metamorphoses - Ovid
The Satyricon - Petronius
Art of Syntax - Ellen Voigt
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers - John Gardner
Grendel - John Gardner
The Art Of Time In Fiction: As Long As It Takes - Joan Silber
Poetics - Aristotle
Candide - Voltaire