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2022 – Goal: 24 Books

2021 – Goal: 50 Books

1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt ★★★★☆
2. Sisyphus by Albert Camus ★★★☆☆
3. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin ★★★☆☆
4. Poetics by Aristotle ★★★☆☆
5. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk ★★★★☆
6. Dune by Frank Herbert ★★★★☆

2020 – Goal: 50 Books

1. Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza ★★★★☆
2. Mrs. Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio ★★☆☆☆
3. As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins ★★☆☆☆
4. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue by Anonymous ★★☆☆☆
5. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey ★★☆☆☆
6. Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche ★★☆☆☆
7. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez ★★★☆☆
8. Traffic by John Ruskin ★★★★☆
9. Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling ★☆☆☆☆
10. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift ★★☆☆☆
11. It by Stephen King ★★★☆☆
12. Three Tang Dynasty Poets by Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu ★★★☆☆
13. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Yoshida Kenkō ★★★★☆
14. Alone on the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman ★★★☆☆
15. How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián ★★★☆☆
16. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer ★★★☆☆
17. The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats ★★☆☆☆
18. Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy ★★★☆☆
19. Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant ★★☆☆☆
20. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo
21. Caligula by Suetonius ★★★☆☆
22. Jason and Medea by Apollonius of Rhodes ★★☆☆☆
23. Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson ★★★☆☆
24. Trimalchio’s Feast by Petronius ★☆☆☆☆
25. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ★★★★☆
26. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher’s Dog by Johann Peter Hebel ★★☆☆☆
27. Intimations by Zadie Smith ★★★★★
28. The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen ★★☆☆☆
29. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ★★★★☆
30. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne ★★★★★
31. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows by Rudyard Kipling ★★☆☆☆
32. Circles of Hell by Dante Alighieri ★★☆☆☆

2019 – Goal: 30 Books

1. The Iliad by Homer ★★★★☆
2. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche ★★★☆☆
3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ★★★☆☆
4. Saga, Vol. 8 by Brian K. Vaughan ★★★★☆
5. Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan ★★★★☆
6. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery ★★★☆☆
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez ★★★★★
8. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge ★★★☆☆
9. Keep Going by Austin Kleon ★★★★★
10. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin ★★★★☆
11. Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ★★★☆☆
12. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein ★★★☆☆
13. The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura ★★★★★
14. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky ★★★★☆
15. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ★★★☆☆
16. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury ★★★★★
17. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx ★★★☆☆
18. The Plague by Albert Camus ★★★★☆

2018

1. The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles ★★★★★
2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ★★★★★
3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ★★★★☆
4. The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder ★★★★★
5. The Odyssey by Homer ★★★☆☆
6. The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey ★★★★☆
7. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer ★★★★☆
8. The Oresteia by Aeschylus ★★★☆☆
9. salt by nayyirah waheed ★★★★☆
10. nejma by nayyirah waheed ★★★★☆

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