Books I’ve Read 2009-2025

Since 2009, I have kept lists of the books I have read. Asterisks (*) indicate rereads; a plus (+) indicates a single essay, short story, or epic poem.

Books Read 2026
Books Read 2025
Books Read 2024
Books Read 2023
Books Read 2022
Books Read 2021
Books Read 2020
Books Read 2019
Books Read 2018
Books Read 2017
Books Read 2016
Books Read 2015
Books Read 2014
Books Read 2013
Books Read 2012
Books Read 2011
Books Read 2010
Books Read 2009

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Reading 2025: A Statistical Reckoning

Sixty-four books read last year. A normal reading ...

Books Read 2025

Gustave Flaubert. Salammbô. tr. A. J. Krailsheimer...

Books Read 2009

Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male. Nathanael West. Mi...

Just One More

One those passages you read (you? I read) and chec...

The Only Reading That Deserves the Name

Part of this interview, on reading, resonated deep...

About

"I have been reading wildly all over the place, Go...

The Summer I Really Started Reading

I’d been given the task of clearing out Mr. Lace’s...

Anthony Rudolf’s Silent Conversations

What is evident from the first pages of Anthony Ru...

Reading and the Year’s Shape

I read sixty-four books this year. That number sur...

A Year of Reading: 2011

I have read so many exceptional books this year. S...