Literature
This is a non-comprehensive list of the books I have read. I include books that were assigned for a school course iff: I paid particular attention to, and can claim to have some taste for it. I exclude: books of which I only read a small excerpt; textbooks; reference books; technical books. Motivation: to remember what I have read; to look for patterns.
| Which | Who | When Did I | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Glass | Paul Auster | 02/2026 | *** |
| Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion | 02/2026 | * |
| Giovanni’s Room | James Baldwin | 01/2026 | ** |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 01/2026 | **** |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 12/2025 | ***** |
| Rise and Kill First | Ronen Bergman | 12/2025 | *** |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 11/2025 | ***** |
| Sweetness and Power | Sidney Mintz | 09/2025 | ** |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | 2024 | *** |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 2024 | **** |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 2023 | **** |
| Don Quixote | Miguel Cervantes | 2023 | |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 2023 | |
| The Iliad of Homer | Homer | 2023 | |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 2023 | |
| Infero | Dante | 2023 | **** |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 2023 | |
| The Aeneid of Virgil | Virgil | 2023 | ***** |
| Plato’s Republic | Plato | 2023 | |
| The Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | 2023 | |
| Politics | Aristotle | 2023 | |
| Parable of the Sower | Octavia Butler | 2022 | ** |
| Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | 2022 | **** |
| Words That Hurt, Words That Heal | Joseph Telushkin | 10/2021 | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 06/2021 | |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | 06/2021 | |
| Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2020 | |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | 2019 | |
| Rebbe | Joseph Telushkin | 2017 | ***** |
| Blink | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| The Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| Influence | Robert Cialdini | ||
| The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | ||
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | ||
| Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| Not in God’s Name | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | ||
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ||
| The Innovators | Walter Isaacson | ||
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | ||
| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | ||
| If on a winter’s night a traveler | Italo Calvino | ||
| 1984 | George Orwell | ||
| So, Anyway | John Cleese | ||
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | ||
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | ||
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | ||
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | ||
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | ||
| Happy to Be Here | Garrison Keillor | ||
| The Keillor Reader | Garrison Keillor | ||
| Slapstick | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| Mother Night | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| While Mortals Sleep | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare | ||
| Othello | Shakespeare | ||
| Merchant of Venice | Shakespeare | ||
| Measure for Measure | Shakespeare | ||
| Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare | ||
| As You Like It | Shakespeare | ||
| Hamlet | Shakespeare |