library


This is my library page; it will probably hold a commonplace/excerpts page and a recommended reading log in the future, but for now it just has a list of things I've read recently in (mostly) chronological order from most to least recent
bold for favourites, italic for assigned reading

read 2025

> Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
> Mark Dunn - Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
> René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
> René Descartes - Discourse on Method
> J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey

read 2024

> Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
> Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
> Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
> Leonard Cohen - Let Us Compare Mythologies
> Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye
> David Howarth - 1066: The Year of the Conquest
> Viktor E. Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
> Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (vol. I-III)
> Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers
> Jean-Paul Sartre - Dirty Hands
> Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
> Simon Leys - The Death of Napoleon
> The Epic of Gilgamesh (transl. Kovacs)
> Ursula K. Le Guin - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
> Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics
> Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
> Clarice Lispector - Água Viva
> David A. Bell - The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
> Zoltan Torey - The Conscious Mind
> Alan Sillitoe - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (and other stories)
> Emil M. Cioran - On the Heights of Despair
> Jack Kerouac - On the Road
> Federico García Lorca - Barbarous Nights (collection)
> Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven and Other Poems
> Valeria Luiselli - Tell Me How It Ends
> Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le petit prince (reread 2x, in French)
> Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
> Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
> Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest
> Albert Camus - The Plague
> Yukio Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther  

Plato - Socratic dialogues

> The Republic
> Euthyphro
> Phaedo
> Crito
> Apology
> Euthydemus
> Hippias Minor
> Hippias Major
> Charmides
> Lysis
> Lachès
> Ion


> Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
> Clarice Lispector - The Hour of the Star
> Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask
> Oscar Wilde - Short Stories
> Rashid Khalidi - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
> T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land and Other Poems
> Emil M. Cioran - The Trouble With Being Born
> Oscar Wilde - The Canterville Ghost
> Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (reread)