Selected Reading List
Musems and Women and other stories (John Updike)Satantango (László Krasznahorkai)
Palestinian Walks (Raja Shehadeh)
The Golden House (Salman Rushdie)
The Assault (Harry Mulisch)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Matsuo Bashō)
Stoner (John Williams)
The Enigma of Arrival (V.S. Naipaul)
2025 Year-end Media List
Tomorrow x3 (Gabrielle Zevin)
Shadow Ticket (Thomas Pynchon)
What We Can Know (Ian McEwan)
The Swimmer (John Cheever)
In Xanadu (William Dalrymple)
Antarctica (Claire Keegan)
Seven Empty Houses (Samanta Schweblin)
Cuba Libre (Elmore Leonard)
The Hunted (Elmore Leonard)
The River Between (Ngugi wa Thiong'O)
Things Become Other Things (Craig Mod)
Speedboat (Renata Adler)
Ralph Fiennes' Four Quartets
M31 (Stephen Wright)
Hitch-22 (Christopher Hitchens)
Quicksand (Junichiro Tanizaki)
The Kreutzer Sonata (Leo Tolstoy)
The War Against Cliché (Martin Amis)
The Wager (David Grann)
Josephine the Singer (Franz Kafka)
The Guide (R.K. Narayan)
Malgudi Days (R.K. Narayan)
The Map and the Territory (Michel Houellebecq)
The Festival of Insignificance (Milan Kundera)
Hunter of Stories (Eduardo Galeano)
Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)
Trust (Hernan Diaz)
The Dog of the South (Charles Portis)
Clay (James Joyce)
Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes (David Grann)
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (William H. Gass)
Ms Ice Sandwich (Mieko Kawakami)
Pastoralia (George Saunders)
Stella Maris (Cormac McCarthy)
The Passenger (Cormac McCarthy)
Passing (Nella Larsen)
Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)
The Captive Mind (Czesław Miłosz)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
Effi Briest (Theodore Fontane)
The Pole (J.M. Coetzee)
The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead)
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty (Haruki Murakami)
The Bear (William Faulkner)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Lucy By the Sea (Elizabeth Strout)
The Lives of Animals (J.M. Coetzee)
The Return (Hisham Matar)
Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
Liberation Day (George Saunders)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Box Man (Kobo Abe)
Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)
To Have and Have Not (Ernest Hemingway)
Emma (Jane Austen)
Sula (Toni Morrison)
Honeymoon (Patrick Modiano)
Collected Stories by Donald Barthelme (Donald Barthelme)
Entropy (Thomas Pynchon)
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
Bad Monkey (Carl Hiaassen)
Oh, William! (Elizabeth Strout)
Oranges (John McPhee)
Missing Person (Patrick Modiano)
Both Flesh and Not (David Foster Wallace)
Grey Bees (Andrey Kurkov)
A Confederate General from Big Sur (Richard Brautigan)
Exhalation - Stories (Ted Chiang)
The Promise (Damon Galgut)
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)
The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)
Ravelstein (Saul Bellow)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
Republic (Plato)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell)
A Walker in the City (Alfred Kazin)
Warlock (Oakley Hall)
The Three Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Motherless Brooklyn (Jonathan Letham)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (Machado de Assis)
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Robert M. Sapolsky)
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Black Rain (Masuji Ibuse)
City on the Edge of Forever (Harlan Ellison)
Cowboy Graves (Roberto Bolaño)
Why I Live at the PO (Eudora Welty)
The Cyberiad (Stanislaw Lem)
Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)
Intimations (Zadie Smith)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The History of Rasselas (Samuel Johnson)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
My Wicked, Wicked Ways (Errol Flynn)
White Noise (Don DeLillo)
William Trevor's Last Stories (William Trevor)
Year of the Monkey (Patti Smith)
Humboldt's Gift (Saul Bellow)
Time's Arrow (Martin Amis)
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain (George Saunders)
Design for the Real World (Victor Papanek)
The Sportswriter (Richard Ford)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Delmore Schwartz)
Killing Commendatore (Haruki Murakami)
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Waiting for the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares)
A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
Flying to America (Donald Barthelme)
The Plains by Gerald Murnane (Gerald Murnane)
Love is Blind (William Boyd)
The Nose (Nikolai Gogol)
The Skating Rink (Roberto Bolaño)
Running Dog (Don DeLillo)
Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
Impossible Owls - Essays (Brian Phillips)
Molloy (Samuel Beckett)
Riding Toward Everywhere (William T. Vollman)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Underworld (Don DeLillo)
My Struggle, Book 2 (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
My Struggle, Book 1 (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty)
The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Indignation (Philip Roth)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Rhinoceros (Eugene Ionesco)
The Rings of Saturn (W.G. Sebald)
Voyage Around My Room (Xavier de Maistre)
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (James Boswell)
Night of Wenceslas (Lionel Davidson)
The Complete Short Prose of Beckett (Samuel Beckett)
The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathanael West)
The Dead (James Joyce)
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse)
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Fox 8 (George Saunders)
Zero K (Don DeLillo)
The Peregrine (J.A. Baker)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
King Lear (William Shakespeare)
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
Numero Zero (Umberto Eco)
Any Human Heart (William Boyd)
To Set Prometheus Free (Anthony Grayling)
The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt)
The Martian (Andy Weir)
Traveler of the Century (Andres Neuman)
Paterson (William Carlos Williams)
Look Homeward, Angel (Thomas Wolfe)
China Mountain Zhang (Maureen McHugh)
All I Asking for is My Body (Milton Murayama)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Gold Bug (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Colossus of Maroussi (Henry Miller)
The Great Wall of China (Franz Kafka)
A Contest for Supremacy (Aaron Friedberg)
Let Me Be Frank With You (Richard Ford)
Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
The Education of Henry Adams (Henry Adams)
The Royal Game (Stefan Zweig)
Desert Queen (Janet Wallach)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Barley Patch (Gerald Murnane)
Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
Burning Secret (Stefan Zweig)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick)
Report from the Interior (Paul Auster)
Man Walks Into A Room (Nicole Krauss)
The Ruined Map (Kobo Abe)
The Driver's Seat (Muriel Spark)
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (Mo Yan)
Bleeding Edge (Thomas Pynchon)
The Conservationist (Nadine Gordimer)
All That Is (James Salter)
Le Grand Meaulnes (Alain Fournier)
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley)
The Rider (Tim Krabbé)
The Lemon Table (Julian Barnes)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
Poems of Philip Larkin (Philip Larkin)
Laughter in the Dark (Vladimir Nabokov)
The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
The Horse's Mouth (Joyce Cary)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
The Road to Wellville (T.C. Boyle)
The Angel's Game (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
Blindness (José Saramago)
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)
Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon)
Slow Man (J.M. Coetzee)
Elizabeth Costello (J.M. Coetzee)
The Singapore Grip (J.G. Farrell)
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Robert van Gulik)
What I Talk About when I Talk About Running
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (David Foster Wallace)
Stranger Shores (J.M. Coetzee)