18,600 pages later...

I started reading regularly for leisure in the early half of 2020, after spending the past 20 odd years hardly ever picking up a book. Here is what I’ve been reading so far, as well as how I’ve rated each book.

Reading challenges really helped motivate me to read a lot more in 2021—more than I have ever read before. Check out how I did in 2021 and 2022.

Currently Reading

The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
The Years, Annie Ernaux
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

10 / 10

Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
Animal Farm, George Orwell
East of Eden, John Steinbeck

9 / 10

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

8 / 10

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Trial, Franz Kafka
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima
Upstream, Mary Oliver
1984, George Orwell
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

7 / 10

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov
Ivanov, Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
Montaigne, Stefan Zweig

6 / 10

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Fredrik Backman
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov
No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
I, Claudius, Robert Graves
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul

5 / 10

Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Dubliners, James Joyce
The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Just Kids, Patti Smith
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

4 / 10

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Beloved, Toni Morrison