Reading List

Books I've read, each rated across prose, plot, characters, and ideas. Click a book for the notes. Dated reads come first; the rest follow.

• The Magic MountainThomas Mann★★★★★★★★★★3.0· Jul 2026
• The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov★★★★★★★★★★5.0· Jun 2026
• Moby-DickHerman Melville★★★★★★★★★★4.5· May 2026
• The Satanic VersesSalman Rushdie★★★★★★★★★★4.8· Mar 2026
• White NightsFyodor DostoevskyUnrated· Mar 2026
• The Bridge of San Luis ReyThornton Wilder★★★★★★★★★★3.5· Jan 2026
• Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol★★★★★★★★★★3.8· Dec 2025
• Kafka on the ShoreHaruki Murakami★★★★★★★★★★2.0· 2025
• Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2025
• Selected StoriesAnton Chekhov★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2025
• The Unhappiness of Being a Single ManFranz Kafka★★★★★★★★★★3.8· 2025
• A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2024
• The AeneidVirgil★★★★★★★★★★3.3· 2024
• The IliadHomer★★★★★★★★★★4.3· 2024
• Eugene OneginAlexander Pushkin★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2023
• The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2023
• A Swim in a Pond in the RainGeorge Saunders★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2022
• Bleak HouseCharles Dickens★★★★★★★★★★4.8· 2022
• CirceMadeline Miller★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2022
• Golden HillFrancis Spufford★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2022
• Tenth of DecemberGeorge Saunders★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2022
• War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2022
• Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas HofstadterUnrated· 2021
• Hadji MuratLeo Tolstoy★★★★★★★★★★3.8· 2021
• Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2021
• A Hero of Our TimeMikhail Lermontov★★★★★★★★★★3.5· 2020
• StalingradVasily Grossman★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2020
• Cannery RowJohn Steinbeck★★★★★★★★★★4.3· 2019
• Life and FateVasily Grossman★★★★★★★★★★4.8· 2019
• Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck★★★★★★★★★★4.5· 2019
• The PearlJohn SteinbeckUnrated· 2019
• Tortilla FlatJohn Steinbeck★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2019
• The GamblerFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2018
• The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck★★★★★★★★★★4.8· 2018
• The OdysseyHomer★★★★★★★★★★4.8· 2018
• August 1914Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2017
• ComplexityM. Mitchell Waldrop★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2017
• Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2017
• East of EdenJohn Steinbeck★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2017
• Notes from UndergroundFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★★★★★★★3.5· 2017
• The Complacent ClassTyler Cowen★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2017
• The PredictorsThomas A. Bass★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2017
• A Man for All MarketsEdward O. Thorp★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2016
• Algorithms to Live ByBrian Christian★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2016
• Flash BoysMichael Lewis★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2016
• Fortune's FormulaWilliam Poundstone★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• Irrational ExuberanceRobert J. Shiller★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• It Can't Happen HereSinclair Lewis★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• Red PlentyFrancis Spufford★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• SuperforecastingPhilip E. Tetlock★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• The CossacksLeo Tolstoy★★★★★★★★★★3.8· 2016
• The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2016
• A Man in FullTom Wolfe★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy★★★★★★★★★★4.3· 2015
• Atlas ShruggedAyn Rand★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Average Is OverTyler Cowen★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• Cancer WardAleksandr Solzhenitsyn★★★★★★★★★★3.5· 2015
• Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Cat's CradleKurt Vonnegut★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Expert Political JudgmentPhilip E. Tetlock★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• GalápagosKurt Vonnegut★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for ThinkingDaniel C. Dennett★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• Light in AugustWilliam Faulkner★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• NudgeRichard H. Thaler★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• Secrets of the TempleWilliam Greider★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Six Not-So-Easy PiecesRichard Feynman★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestTom Wolfe★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• The Fabric of the CosmosBrian Greene★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• The FountainheadAyn Rand★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2015
• The Great Financial CrisisJohn Bellamy Foster★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2015
• The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• Theodore RexEdmund Morris★★★★★★★★★★3.0· 2015
• Why Does the World Exist?Jim Holt★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2015
• In the First CircleAleksandr Solzhenitsyn★★★★★★★★★★4.5· 2014
• Roger's VersionJohn Updike★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2014
• For Whom the Bell TollsErnest HemingwayUnrated· 2013
• The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2013
• Moscow to the End of the LineVenedikt Erofeev★★★★★★★★★★2.0· 2012
• One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn★★★★★★★★★★3.3· 2012
• The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy★★★★★★★★★★4.0· 2012
• The Sun Also RisesErnest HemingwayUnrated· 2012
• A Farewell to ArmsErnest HemingwayUnrated· 2011
• Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky★★★★★★★★★★5.0· 2010
• The Overcoat and Other TalesNikolai Gogol★★★★★★★★★★4.5· 2010

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