Entries beginning with a lambda (λ) hold significant personal meaning.
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2026
- Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession by Leo Tolstoy i loved ivan ilyich, but sincerely hated confession. needlessly circular writing on the latter. i think it should have gone through multiple edits, but even then i’m not sure i like the line of thinking he finally landed on.
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda lush, elemental poems in which desire and loss seem to inhabit the landscape itself. i do feel like i need near-native proficiency in spanish to fully appreciate it, however.
- Why The Poor Don’t Kill Us by Manu Joseph great content, but terrible tone throughout. not a very enjoyable read for that particular reason (for me). definitely eye opening, however.
- Amar Bari, Tomar Bari, Naxalbari by Sumit Kumar
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Love In The Big City by Sang Young Park
- How The World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
2025
- All Tomorrows by C. M. Kösemen
- Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
- Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
- Happy Death Club by Naomi Westerman
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- God & Golem, Inc. by Norbert Wiener
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman.
- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.
- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino.
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
2024
- (λ) The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han.
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand.
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.
- Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview by Anthony Bourdain.
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati.
- (λ) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
- How To Live: A Life Of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell.
- Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran.
- (λ) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
- Threshold by Rob Doyle.
- Naked by David Sedaris.
2023
- (λ) If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.
- Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai.
- (λ) Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien.
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
- The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran.
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
- Candide by Voltaire.
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann.
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
- (λ) Letters To a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- A Pale View of The Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
- (λ) Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing & Life by Anne Lamott.
- (λ) Mere Dil, Mere Musafir by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
- Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.