Here is a list of some books I've read recently. A star indicates a rereading, and the highlighted row indicates that year's favourite.
2025
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
- The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- On Beauty, Zadie Smith
- Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes, Jacqueline Harpman
- The Crying of Lot 49*, Thomas Pynchon
- Dubliners, James Joyce
- Vineland, Thomas Pynchon
- Crime and Punishment*, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Candide, Voltaire
- V., Thomas Pynchon
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Hamlet*, William Shakespeare
- The Fermented Man, Derek Dellinger
- Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- The Old Man and the Sea*, Ernest Hemingway
- A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
2024
- Going Postal, Terry Pratchett - 4/5
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 3/5
- The Vegetarian, Han Kang - 3/5
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 1/5
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 4/5
- Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon - 4/5
- The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5
- Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf - 3/5
- It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover - 2/5
- Of Mice and Men*, John Steinbeck - 5/5
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - 3/5
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck - 5/5
- Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian - 2/5
- The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon - 3/5
- L'Étranger*, Albert Camus - 5/5
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera - 4/5
- The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5
- White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin - 3/5
- Father's Day, Richard Madeley - 2/5
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse - 4/5
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath - 5/5
- Dune, Frank Herbert - 4/5
- Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Maurice Leblanc - 3/5
- The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells - 3/5
2023
- Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh - 2/5
- Ticket No. 9672, Jules Verne - 4/5
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London - 3/5
- The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne - 3/5
- Boy in Darkness, Mervyn Peake - 2/5
- Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake - 2/5
- Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - 5/5
- Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake - 4/5
- Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
- Mort, Terry Pratchett
- Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
- The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
- The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
- The Return of the King*, J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers*, J.R.R. Tolkien
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