key

• 🌗 Partially read
• 🔖 Favorite
• ❗ Revisit

current

• All Dogs Die
• Mahabharata
• Algospeak
• The Dao De Jing 道德經
• The Stranger
• The Power of Myth
• Why We Sleep

shortlist

• Border State
• 🌗 The Eternal Drama - The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
• A Clockwork Orange
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

past

2025

• Galatea
• Hellbound
• The Vegetarian
• Grass
• Our Twisted Hero
• There a Petal Silently Falls
• 🔖 The Things They Carried
• The Courage to Be Disliked
• The Red Room
• Land of Exile
• The Art of Thinking Clearly
• The Copenhagen Trilogy
• The Fine Art of Small Talk
• How to Not Die Alone
• Anna Liisa
• A Doll's House
• Betrayed

2024

• 🔖 Letters to a Young Poet
• 🔖 In Praise of Love
• 🔖 Too Loud a Solitude
• The Three Body Problem
• 🔖 The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• The Sandman
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Machine Stops
• 🌗 Classical Literary Criticism
• The Art of Poetry - Horace
• 🌗 Don Quixote
• 🔖❗ Border State
• The Door
• Crime and Punishment
• 🔖 Giovanni's Room
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds
• The Golden Ass - Metamorphosis
• The Magic of Tarot
• 🌗 Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind

2023

• Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast
• The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion
• 🌗 Slow Living
• Inferno
• 🌗 Purgatorio
• 🌗 Paradiso
• ❗🔖 The Agony of Eros
• Introduction to Literature - C LIT 200
  • The House of Bernarda Alba
  • 🌗 As I Lay Dying
  • 🌗 The Sound and the Fury
  • The Hive
  • Recitatif
  • Prize Stock
  • Butterfly
  • Choruses of the Midnight
  • In Deep Flight
  • Sanctuary
• Everybody Writes - Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
• In Memoriam
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• ❗️Convenience Store Woman
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
• All About Love
• Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
• Carmilla
• Paradise Rot
• Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
• ❗🔖 The Flowers of Buffoonery
• ❗🔖 Lie With Me
• Mr. Salary
• The Night Circus
• Restful Sleep
• Crooked Kingdom
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
• Sea of Tranquility
• Six of Crows
• This Is How You Lose the Time War
• Greek and Roman Mythology - CLAS 430
  • The Bacchae
  • Medea
  • The Iliad
  • ❗ The Odyssey
  • Oedipus Rex
  • 🌗 The Aeneid
  • Antigone
  • Agamemnon
  • The Eumenides
  • Theogony
• Perfume
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Great Gatsby
• Circe
• ❗ Kokoro
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence
• ❗ White Nights
• The Alchemist
• The Phantom of the Opera
• No Excuses! - The Power of Self-Discipline
• Atomic Habits
• The Old Man and the Sea
• ❗ The Setting Sun

2022

• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• What the Buddha Taught

2021

• No Longer Human

2020

• Siddartha
• Jung's Map of the Soul
• Never Let Me Go
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Demian - The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

poems

• Bluebird
• 楓橋夜泊
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Ode to Salvador Dalí
• Nemean Ode 3
• Lament for the Death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
• I Want to Die While You Love Me
• Sonnet

essays

• On Simple and Sentimental Poetry
• On Educating Children

DNF

• The Man with the Compound Eyes
• The Lost Way to the Good
• Caravaggio's Shadow
• Otogizōshi
• Eat the Buddha

to read

• Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
• God, Human, Animal, Machine
• IBM and the Holocaust
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Crowds and Power
• Omeros
• Conversations on Love
• The Silent Cry
• The Tongue Set Free
• If on a Winters Night a Traveler
• Entre visillos
• Cracking the PM Interview
• Metamorphoses
• Rashomon
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Macbeth
• The Scent of Time
• Ulysses
• Emotional Design

other media

shows

• Arcane
• Dungeon Meshi
• Castlevania
• Warrior
• Cowboy Bebop
• Mob Psycho 100
• Naruto
• Trigun

musicals

• Hadestown

movies

• Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door
• Look Back
• Castle in the Sky
• Frankenstein

comics

manga

• One Piece

DC

• Batman-Superman - World's Finest
• Batman and Robin - Year One
• Absolute Superman
• Absolute Wonderwoman
• Absolute Batman
• Batman - Year One
• Batgirl
• Batman: The Man Who Laughs
• The Dark Knight Returns
• Batman: The Long Halloween
• Batman: The Killing Joke
• Batman: Hush
• Batman: Rebirth
• Batman: Court of Owls
• Dark Knights of Steel
• Future State: Dark Detective
• Justice League Unlimited
• Superman (2023)
• Absolute Power

games

• Dead Plate
• Hades
• Cult of the Lamb
• Stardew Valley
• TFT