In the interests of easy navigation and until I find some better way of doing it, it makes sense to have all of my posts in one place. Here the list will simply be chronological, from the most recent to the earliest. I aim to update this page once a year. I recommend you just scroll and see if anything takes your fancy, or ctrl-F for your favourites.
Last updated Feb 2026.
2026
2025
- How to Read an Aphorism
- Samuel Beckett – Molloy
- E. M. Forster – Howards End
- Virginia Woolf – Jacob’s Room
- Max Frisch – Bluebeard
- Viktoria Amelina – Poetry (translations)
- Colm Toibin – Nora Webster
- James Hogg – Confessions of a Justified Sinner
- Saul Bellow – Seize the Day / Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
- Maria Stepanova – In Memory of Memory
- Jon Fosse – Melancholy I-II
- Vincenzo Latronico – Perfection
- Martin Walser – Runaway Horse
- Yukio Mishima – The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
- Joseph Conrad – Victory
- Lou Andreas-Salomé – Fenitschka
- Han Kang – The Vegetarian
- Max Frisch – Man in the Holocene
- John Banville – The Sea
- Six Years of Mostly About Stories
- Vasily Grossman – Life and Fate
- Thomas Berhnard – Correction
2024
- D. H. Lawrence – The Rainbow
- Carbon Credits as Literary Material
- Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honour of Katerina Blum
- Vasily Grossman – Stalingrad
- Leo Tolstoy – The Cossacks
- Jane Alison – Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
- Ian McEwan – Enduring Love
- W. G. Sebald – Campo Santo
- Alice Munro – Dear Life
- Jon Fosse – Scenes from a Childhood
- John Fowles – The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
- Peter Handke – The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
- Marquis de Sade – Philosophy in the Boudoir
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
- My Job, My Life, My Blog
- Jon Fosse – Septology
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – Diary
2023
- Jon Fosse – Aliss at the Fire
- Jon Fosse – A Shining
- Claire Keegan – Small Things like These / Foster
- Janik and Toulmin – Wittgenstein’s Vienna
- Max Weber – Science as Vocation
- Clarice Lispector – Agua Viva
- Andreas Malm – How to Blow up a Pipeline
- Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House
- W. G. Sebald – Rings of Saturn
- Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian
- Martin Amis – Time’s Arrow
- Simone Weil vs George Orwell on Political Language
- Simone Weil – Selected Letters
- Charles Dickens – “To Be Read at Dusk”
- Ottessa Moshfegh – My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Isaac Babel – 1920 Diary
- Alexander Herzen – My Past and Thoughts
- Daniil Kharms – “Whenever I see someone, I want to hit them in the face” (translation)
- Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Albert Camus – The Plague
- Nikolai Gogol – Taras Bulba
- Friedrich Nietzsche – Ecce Homo
- Joseph Conrad – Under Western Eyes
2022
- Glaciers, Climate and Humility
- Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain
- Andrea Wulf – Magnificent Rebels
- Nikos Kazantzakis – The Last Temptation
- Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
- On Reflection
- Jun’ichirō Tanizaki – In Praise of Shadows
- The Salon
- Charles Dickens – Bleak House
- Two Days in Trieste
- Kakuzo Okakura – Book of Tea
- Orlando Figes – The Europeans
- Julian Barnes – The Sense of an Ending
- Karl Jaspers – Die Schuldfrage
- Julian Barnes – Flaubert’s Parrot
- Richard Holmes – The Age of Wonder
- Cormac McCarthy – The Crossing
- The Death of the Black Hen
- Mara van der Lugt – Dark Matters
- Exile and Emigration – an East Slavic Destiny
- Gerald Murnane – The Plains
- Ivan Bunin – Cold Autumn (Translation)
- Ivan Turgenev and Peter Singer – Fathers and Children
- Three Years of Mostly About Stories
- Leo Tolstoy – Sevastopol Sketches
- Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education
2021
- John Stuart Mill – Autobiography
- Far Cry 2‘s storytelling
- Alexander Herzen – Aileen Kelly’s biography of him
- Thomas Mann – Buddenbrooks
- Joseph Conrad – Letters
- Immanuel Kant – Prolegomena…
- Heinrich von Kleist – Stories
- Bruno Schulz – Stories
- Isaiah Berlin – The Crooked Timber of Humanity
- Grape Picking in Burgundy
- Anton Chekhov – Ionych
- Cormac McCarthy – All the Pretty Horses
- A. S. Byatt – Angels and Insects
- Simone de Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Marilynne Robinson – Lila
- Iris Murdoch – The Bell
- Ray Monk – Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
- Soren Kierkegaard – The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
- Machado de Assis – Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- Lytton Strachey – Eminent Victorians
- Bernhard Schlink – The Reader
- Soren Kierkegaard – Repetition
- Big or Small? A Note on Book Sizes
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – A Gentle Creature
- Thomas Bernhard – Woodcutters
- W.G. Sebald – The Emigrants
- Thomas Carlyle – “Signs of the Times” and “Chartism”
- Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
- Richard Holmes – This Long Pursuit
- Marilynne Robinson – Home
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Alexander Pushkin – The Tales of Belkin
- Nikolai Leskov – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
- Gustave Flaubert – Three Tales
- Eduard von Keyserling – Waves / Wellen
- Ivan Turgenev – Asya
- Two Years of Mostly About Stories
- Thomas Mann – Mario and the Magician, Disorder and Early Sorrow
- Nikolai Ogarev – “The Wanderer” (translation)
2020
- Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
- Many Books or Few Books (essay)
- Anton Chekhov – Misery/Toska (translation)
- John Williams – Augustus
- Edward St Aubyn – The Patrick Melrose novels
- Wendell Berry – Essays
- Boris Vian – Mood Indigo/Frother on the Daydream
- Leo Tolstoy – Father Sergius
- E. M. Forster – Maurice
- The Author as Prophet: the Problem with Late Tolstoy (essay)
- Evgeniy Baratynsky – “My talent’s poor, my voice has little weight…” (translation)
- Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya – “The Boarding School Girl”
- Sally Rooney – Normal People
- Joseph Roth – The Radetzky March
- Henry James – Roderick Hudson
- Richard Holmes – Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
- Günter Grass – Cat and Mouse
- Evgeniy Baratynsky – Poetry (translations)
- Karolina Pavlova – A Double Life
- Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory
- Robert Musil – Three Women
- What Does it Mean to Hate God? – Misotheism and Literature (Essay)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime and Punishment
- Robert Musil – Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
- Theodor Fontane – On Tangled Paths / Confusions, Delusions
- Arthur Schnitzler – Fräulein Else
- John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing
- Joseph Roth – Job: The Story of a Simple Man
- Alfred Döblin – The Murder of a Buttercup and Other Stories
- Stefan Zweig – The Fowler Snared
- Georg Trakl – Poetry (translations)
- Leo Tolstoy – Hadji Murat
- Sándor Márai – Embers
- Gerald Murnane – Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
- One Year of Mostly About Stories (Anniversary Post)
- Theodor Fontane – Irretrievable / No Way Back
- Sally Rooney – Conversations with Friends
2019
- Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day
- Svetlana Alexievich – Second-hand Time
- Theodor Storm – Poetry (translations)
- Thomas Mann – Gladius Dei
- Nikos Kazantzakis – Report to Greco
- Theodor Storm – Immensee
- Vladimir Rasputin – Money for Maria
- Joseph von Eichendorff – Life of a Good-for-nothing
- Joker (Film)
- Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism
- Joseph Conrad – Nostromo
- Theodor Storm – Aquis Submersus
- Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Double
- Vladimir Nabokov – Pnin
- Literature in the Face of Death and Mourning (Personal)
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Poetry (translations)
- Nikolai Gogol – Petersburg Tales (Nevsky Prospekt, Notes of a Madman)
- Theodor Fontane – Effi Briest
- Nikolai Gogol – The Nose
- Conrad Meyer – The Marriage of the Monk
- James Hilton – Lost Horizon
- Isaac Babel – Crossing the Zbruch (translation)
- Isaac Babel – Red Army Cavalry
- Theodor Adorno – The Meaning of Working Through the Past
- Franz Kafka – Before the Law (translation)
- Andrei Platonov – Soul and other stories
- Salvatore Satta – The Day of Judgement
- László Krasznahorkai – Satantango
- Vladimir Nabokov – Strong Opinions
- Nikolai Leskov – A Righteous Man (translation)
- Nikos Kazantzakis – Zorba the Greek
- Walter Benjamin – The Storyteller
- Leo Tolstoy – “I just couldn’t help myself” (translation)
- Varlam Shalamov – Kolyma Tales
- Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice