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Reading list, priorities as of Oct 16, 2025

Reading lists

Current

  • John Hersey - Hiroshima
  • China Miéville - The City & The City
  • W. G. Sebald - Austerlitz
  • David Graeber - Dawn of Everything
  • Susan Sontag - Illness as Metaphor
  • László Krasznahorkai - Satantango

Queue

  • Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
  • Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts
  • Thomas Bernhard - The Loser
  • Iain McGilchrist - The Master and His Emissary
  • César Aira - Ghosts
  • W. G. Sebald - The Rings of Saturn
  • David Graeber - Debt
  • Ben Lerner - 10:04
  • Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Angela Davis - Women, Race & Class
  • Robert Walser - The Walk
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
  • Jean Rhys - Good Morning, Midnight
  • Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
  • Thomas Bernhard - Extinction
  • Jorge Luis Borges - Universal History of Infamy
  • Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning
  • César Aira - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
  • Clarice Lispector - The Passion According to G.H.
  • Mike Davis - City of Quartz
  • George Saunders - Tenth of December
  • Simone Weil - Gravity and Grace
  • Javier Marías - Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear
  • Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
  • Joan Didion - Why I Write
  • Franz Kafka - Zurau Aphorisms
  • James Baldwin - Notes of a Native Son
  • Ben Lerner - The Topeka School
  • Stanisław Lem - Solaris
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood - Origin of Capitalism
  • Robert Walser - Jakob von Gunten
  • Gene Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer
  • T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
  • Nancy Fraser - Capitalism: A Conversation
  • Javier Marías - Your Face Tomorrow: Dance and Dream
  • Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  • Václav Havel - The Power of the Powerless
  • César Aira - The Literary Conference
  • Jenny Erpenbeck - The End of Days
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - Always Coming Home
  • Wallace Stevens - Esthétique du Mal
  • Silvia Federici - Revolution at Point Zero
  • William Gaddis - The Recognitions
  • Maggie Nelson - Bluets
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano
  • Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
  • Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
  • Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good
  • Samuel Beckett - Endgame
  • Ha-Joon Chang - Bad Samaritans
  • Javier Marías - Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell
  • Claudia Rankine - Citizen
  • Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
  • David Foster Wallace - Good Old Neon
  • Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Galápagos
  • Montaigne - Essays
  • Astra Taylor - The People's Platform
  • Don DeLillo - White Noise
  • Schopenhauer - Essays
  • Joy Williams - Concerning the Future
  • Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
  • William Gaddis - JR
  • Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars
  • Nathalie Sarraute - The Age of Suspicion
  • Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny
  • Jenny Erpenbeck - Go, Went, Gone
  • Kurt Vonnegut - Armageddon in Retrospect
  • René Descartes - Meditations
  • Kate Raworth - Doughnut Economics
  • Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
  • Plato - Euthyphro
  • Paul Celan - 14 from Breathturn
  • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Elite Capture
  • David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
  • Erich Fromm - The Art of Loving
  • David Foster Wallace - Shipping Out
  • Cedric Robinson - Black Marxism
  • Cervantes - Don Quixote
  • Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
  • Emily Dickinson - Selected Poems
  • Benjamin Bratton - The Stack
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
  • Simone Weil - Waiting for God
  • Herman Melville - The Piazza Tales
  • Joan C. Tronto - Caring Democracy
  • Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
  • Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
  • Kurt Vonnegut - 2BR02B
  • The Care Collective - The Care Manifesto
  • James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
  • David Hume - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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