It seems that my reading speed has peaked at around 20 books a year, give or take. I hope in 2026, I can read perhaps 30 books, though I know that is a difficult feat.
Anyways, below is a list of all the books I have read since 2022, grouped by the year read (books read later in the year are nearer to the top).
2026
- The Plague by Albert Camus (1947)
2025
- Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (1927)
- A Room with a View (2nd read) by E. M. Forster (1908)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913)
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (1924)
- Survival in Auswitz by Primo Levi (1947)
- The Odyssey by Homer (800 BC)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890)
- Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus (1957)
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather (1927)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876)
- Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke (2015)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (1986)
- The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942)
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1855)
- 1984 by George Orwell (1949)
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick (1962)
- A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (1986)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
2024
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968)
- Maus II by Art Spiegelman (1991)
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
- The Duel by Joseph Conrad (1908)
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1913)
- Maus I by Art Spiegelman (1986)
- State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin (1917)
- Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
- In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff (1981)
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
- The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
- The Wager by David Grann (2023)
2023
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
- The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (1842)
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (1922)
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (2016)
- Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (1884)
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
- The Captain's Verses by Pablo Neruda (1952)
- The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks (2003)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
- "What Do You Care What People Think?" by Richard P. Feynman (1988)
- City of Thieves by David Benioff (2008)
- Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan (1967)
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
2022
- Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick (1969)
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988)
- In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck (1936)