Book stuff. “When I was a boy my brother and I had to go bed early whether we were sleepy or not. In summer particularly, bedtime often came before sunset; and because our dormitory was in the east wing of the house, with a broad window facing the central courtyard and thus looking west, the hard, pinkish light sometimes streamed in for hours while we lay staring out at my father’s crippled monkey perched on a flaking parapet, or telling stories, one bed to another, with soundless gestures.” Opening lines from Fifth Head of Cerberus Some books that I have read/reread over the past few years. I am too lazy to track textbooks and comics so they are not included here. reading list 2024 Swann's Way : Marcel ProustWithin A Budding Grove : Marcel ProustNazi Literature In The Americas : Roberto Bolañoreading list 2023 Vineland : Thomas PynchonUnderworld : Don DelilloMason and Dixon : Thomas PynchonBleeding Edge : Thomas PynchonSasquatch The Apes Among U : John GreenInfinite Jest : David Foster WallaceAntwerp : Roberto BolañoThe Forge and The Crucible : Mircea Eliade2666 : Roberto BolañoSavage Detectives : Roberto BolañoPeace : Gene WolfeThere Are Doors : Gene WolfeThe Fortean Influence on Science Fiction : Tanner F BoyleThe Body Artist : Don Delilloreading list 2022 Fifth Head Of Cerberus : Gene WolfeEndymion : Dan SimmonsThe Fall of Hyperion : Dan SimmonsThe Rise of Endymion : Dan SimmonsThe Long Ships : Frans G BengstonCocaine Politics : Peter Dale Scott and Jonathon MarshallAlchemy : Marie Louise Von FranzSoldier of the Mist : Gene WolfeSoldier of Arete : Gene WolfeSoldier of Sidon : Gene WolfeAugustus : John WilliamsBased On A True Story : Norm MacDonaldStoreys From The Old Hotel : Gene WolfeUbik : Phillip K DickLibra : Don DelilloWhite Noise : Don DelilloGravity's Rainbow : Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 : Thomas PynchonInherent Vice : PynchonMao II : Don Delilloreading list 2021 War and the Iliad : Simone Weil and Rachel BespaloffCapitalist Realism : Mark FisherThe Kapetanios : Dominique EudesLucky Jim : Kingsley AmisIraq +100 : Collection Edited by Hassan BlasimGates of Fire : Steven PressfieldReconstruction : America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 : Eric FonerGhosts of my Life : Mark FisherA New Outlook On Health : James BoggsThe World of Odysseus : MI FinleyThe Bagdhad Eucharist : Sinan AntoonThe Enchantments Of Mammon : Eugene McCarraherBlood In My Eye : George JacksonHyperion : Dan Simmonsreading list 2020 Foucalt's Pendulum : Umberto EcoThe Temple Of The Golden Pavilion : Yukio MishimaThe Crusades Through Arab Eyes : Amin MaaloufThe Design Of Everyday Things : Don NormanNotes On The Synthesis Of Form : Christopher AlexanderRogue State : William BlumBlood Meridian : Cormac McCarthyBeing Arab : Samir KassirThe Wizard Knight Books 1 and 2 : Gene WolfeImperial Life In The Emerald City : Rajiv ChandrasekaranThe Fifth Head Of Cerberus : Gene WolfeAll The Clever Words On Pages : Paul Matthew HarrisonAll The Clever Words On Pages Pt 2 : Paul Matthew HarrisonThe Priority of Labor : Gregory BaumThe Shadow of the Torturer : Gene WolfeThe Claw of the Concillator : Gene WolfeThe Sword of the Lictor : Gene WolfeThe Citadel of the Autarch : Gene WolfeThe Urth of the New Sun : Gene WolfeThe Soul of a New Machine : Tracy KidderNightside of the Long Sun : Gene WolfeLake of the Long Sun : Gene WolfeCalde of the Long Sun : Gene WolfeExodus of the Long Sun : Gene Wolfereading list 2019 Fellowship Of The Ring : JRR TolkienThe Two Towers : JRR TolkienReturn Of The King : JRR TolkienGrant : Ron ChernowMoby Dick : Herman MelvillwGodel Escher Bach : Douglas HofstadterLincoln In The Bardo : George SaundersCapitalist Realism : Mark FisherThe Three Body Problem : Liu CixinXenofeminist Manifesto : Laboria CuboniksSt. Francis : Nikos KazantzakisFlying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky : Carl JungThe Way Of The Five Rings : Miyamoto MusashiThe Dark Forest : Liu CixinBarabbas : Par LagerkvistDeath's End : Liu CixinOrthodoxy : GK ChestertonMusashi : Eiji YoshikawaAnswering Job : Carl JungRoadside Picnic : Arkady and Boris StrugatskyAutobiography of Malcolm X : Malcolm X and Alex HaleyUnix : A History and a Memoir : Brian KernighanThe Mathematical Experience : Philip J. Davis and Reuben HershHigh Rise : JG BallardOutbound Links: 