This is a list of all the books I’ve read, in reverse chronological order, since I started keeping track on January 1st, 2025. A detailed log is available here.

2026

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (tr. Warner)
• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer
• Clear and Simple as the Truth by Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner
• Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• The Histories by Herodotus (tr. Sélincourt)
• What’s So Great About the Great Books? by Naomi Kanakia
• In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Sword and Citadel by Gene Wolfe
• Shadow and Claw by Gene Wolfe
• Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes (tr. Barrett)
• Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes (tr. Sommerstein)
• The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes (tr. Barrett and Sommerstein)
• Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides (tr. Davie)
• Aztecs: An Interpretation by Inga Clendinnen
• Electra and Other Plays by Euripides (tr. Davie)
• Medea and Other Plays by Euripides (tr. Davie)
• The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides (tr. Davie)
• Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles (tr. Raeburn)
• The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles (tr. Fagles)
• The Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus (tr. Sommerstein)
• The Oresteia by Aeschylus (tr. Fagles)

2025

• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (tr. Rubin)
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• The Strength of the Few by James Islington
• The Will of the Many by James Islington
• The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
• Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
• The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
• Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
• A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman
• Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel Dennett
• Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
• The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (tr. Cashford)
• The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
• Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Odyssey by Homer (tr. Fagles)
• Greek Religion by Walter Burkert (tr. Raffan)
• The Iliad by Homer (tr. Fagles)
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
• Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (tr. various)
• Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (tr. various)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (tr. Rabassa)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (tr. Grossman)
• The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant