Reading List Ed. 2025

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

The Colossus by Sylvia Plath

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Gothic Violence by Mike Ma

Harassment Architecture by Mike Ma

The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce

Siege by James Mason

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

The Iron Heel by Jack London

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Secret of the Golden Flower by Richard Wilhelm

The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Bertrand de Jouvenel

Against the Grain by Joris-Karl Huysmans

The Apocrypha (various authors)

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch

The Unquiet Grave by Charles Marlow

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

The Eternal Return by Julius Evola

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance