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My Reading List

Heavily inspired by Susan Rigetti, I’m starting a public reading list to document all the books I’ve read throughout each year.  

The goal is to read 52 books each year. Books I especially loved are marked with an astrisk (*).

2025

  1. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
  2. A Little History of Philosophy, by Nigel Warburton*
  3. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
  4. White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. The Stranger, by Albert Camus*
  6. Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami
  7. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
  8. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  9. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, by Michael J. Sandel
  10. The Richest Man in Babylon, by George S. Clason*
  11. Crucial Conversations, by Kerry Patterson et al.
  12. The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
  13. After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami
  14. Customer Magic — The Macquarie Way, by Joseph A. Michelli
  15. Kitchen, by Banana Yoshimoto*
  16. Stoner, by John Williams*
  17. The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas, by Robert Zaretsky
  18. The Elephant Vanishes, by Haruki Murakami
    • The Second Bakery Attack*
    • On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning*
  19. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
  20. Mr Salary, by Sally Rooney
  21. Desire, by Haruki Murakami

2024 (partial)

  1. The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
  2. On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca*
  3. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, by Simon Blackburn
  4. Verity, by Colleen Hoover
  5. No More Mr. Nice Guy, by Robert A. Glover