A list of books I’ve finished.

  Title Author Orginal Language Translator Origin of Author
2019          
1 Normal People Sally Rooney English   🇮🇪
2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Russian   🇷🇺
3 The Lonely City Olivia Laing English   🇬🇧
4 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen English   🇬🇧
5 If Cats Disappeared From The World Genki Kawamura Japanese   🇯🇵
6 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami Japanese   🇯🇵
7 In Praise Of Older Women Stephen Vizinczey English?   🇭🇺
8 A Room Of One’s Own Virginia Woolf English   🇬🇧
9 Beyond A Boundry C.L.R. James English   🇹🇹
10 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver English   🇺🇸
11 Another Country James Baldwin English   🇺🇸
12 At The Existentialist Cafe Sarah Bakewell English   🇬🇧
13 10:04 Ben Lerner English   🇺🇸
14 Rubicon Tom Holland English   🇬🇧
15 The White Book Han Kang Korean   🇰🇷
16 A Confederacy Of Dunces John Kennedy Toole English   🇺🇸
17 A History Of The Arab Peoples Albert Hourani English   🇱🇧
18 100 Years Of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez Spanish   🇨🇴
19 Awakenings Oliver Sacks English   🇬🇧
20 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian   🇷🇺
21 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini English   🇦🇫
22 Everything Under Daisy Johnson English   🇬🇧
23 The Polyglots William Gerhardie English   🇬🇧
24 The Unwomanly Face Of War Svetlana Alexievich Russian   🇧🇾
25 The Places Inbetween Rory Stewart English   🇬🇧
2020          
1 The Beauty Of Everyday Things Soetsu Yanagi Japanese   🇯🇵
2 Boys in Zinc Svetlana Alexievich Russian   🇧🇾
3 Babylon Paul Kriwaczek English   🇬🇧
4 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald German   🇩🇪
5 Hard Boiled Wonderland At The Edge Of The World Haruki Murakami Japanese   🇯🇵
6 The White Road Edmund De Waal English   🇬🇧
7 Stitched Up Tansy E. Hoskins English   🇬🇧
8 Underland Robert MacFarlane English   🇬🇧
9 A Wizard Of Earthsea Ursula Le Guin English   🇺🇸
10 Second-hand Time Svetlana Alexievich Russian   🇧🇾
11 Understanding A Photograph John Berger English   🇬🇧
12 I Served The King Of England Bohumil Hrabal Czech   🇨🇿
13 My Year Of Rest And Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh English   🇺🇸
14 Mort Terry Pratchett English   🇬🇧
15 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Russian   🇷🇺
16 Lenin On The Train Catherine Merridale English   🇬🇧
17 October China Mieville English   🇬🇧
18 Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls David Sedaris English   🇺🇸
19 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris English   🇺🇸
20 Down And Out In Paris And London George Orwell English   🇬🇧
21 Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut English   🇺🇸
22 Reading Lolita In Tehran Azar Nafisi English   🇮🇷
23 The Longing For Less Kyle Chayka English   🇺🇸
24 Byzantium Judith Herrin English   🇬🇧
25 A Journal Of A Plague Year Daniel Defoe English   🇬🇧
26 The Big Red Book Of Modern Chinese Literature Yunte Huang Chinese   🇨🇳
27 Doctor Sax Jack Kerouac English   🇺🇸
28 I Am A Cat Soseki Natsume Japanese   🇯🇵
29 Garibaldi Jasper Ridley English   🇬🇧
30 A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing Eimear McBride English   🇮🇪
31 The Rings Of Saturn W.G. Sebald German   🇩🇪
32 The Noise Of Time Julian Barnes English   🇬🇧
33 Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher De Hamel English   🇳🇿
34 Confessions Of A Bookseller Shaun Bythell English   🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
35 The Diving-bell And The Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby French   🇫🇷
36 Contact! Jan Morris English   🇬🇧
37 A Country Doctor’s Notebook Mikhail Bulgakov Russian   🇷🇺
38 A Leg To Stand On Oliver Sacks English   🇬🇧
40 Love, Nina Nina Stibbe English   🇬🇧
41 The Master And The Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Russian   🇷🇺
42 The Ten Loves Of Mr. Nishino Hiromi Kawakami Japanese   🇯🇵
43 Lost Cosmonaut Daniel Kalder English   🇬🇧
2021          
1 The Normans In The South John Julius Norwich English   🇬🇧
2 Pachinko Min Jin Lee English   🇺🇸
3 Cash Johnny Cash English   🇺🇸
4 The Colour Of Magic Terry Pratchett English   🇬🇧
5 A Single Man Christopher Isherwood English   🇬🇧
6 Abigail Magda Szabó Hungarian   🇭🇺
7 Soul Mountain Gao Xingjian Chinese   🇨🇳
8 Manhatten ‘45 Jan Morris English   🇬🇧
9 Funny Weather Olivia Laing English   🇬🇧
10 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante Italian   🇮🇹
11 Naked David Sedaris English   🇺🇸
12 Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim David Sedaris English   🇺🇸
13 The Passion According To G.H. Clarice Lispector Portuguese   🇧🇷
14 The Earthsea Quartet Ursula Le Guin English   🇺🇸
15 The Story Of A New Name Elena Ferrante Italian   🇮🇹
16 Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay Elena Ferrante Italian   🇮🇹
17 The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers English   🇺🇸
18 Reflections In A Golden Eye Carson McCullers English   🇺🇸
19 Harvest Jim Crace English   🇬🇧
2022          
1 The Vegetarian Han Kang Korean   🇰🇷
2 South And West Joan Didion English   🇺🇸
3 If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller Italo Calvino Italian   🇮🇹
4 The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Milan Kundera Czech   🇨🇿
5 The Door Magda Szabó Hungarian   🇭🇺
6 On The Natural History Of Destruction W.G. Sebald German   🇩🇪
7 The Three-body Problem Cixin Liu Chinese   🇨🇳
8 Disorientation Elaine Hsieh Chou English   🇺🇸
9 Love In A Fallen City Eileen Chang Chinese   🇨🇳
10 Cheating At Canasta William Trevor English   🇮🇪
11 Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You In Your Life Yiyun Li English   🇨🇳
12 Breasts And Eggs Mieko Kawakami Japanese   🇯🇵
13 The Man Awakened From Dreams Henrietta Harrison English   🇬🇧
14 Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Jung Chang English   🇨🇳
15 Red Sorghum Mo Yan Chinese   🇨🇳
16 The Search For Modern China Jonathan Spence English   🇬🇧
17 In The Dutch Mountains Cees Nooteboom Dutch   🇳🇱
18 A Stranger In The Shogun’s City Amy Stanley English   🇺🇸
19 Wild Swans Jung Chang English   🇨🇳
20 Amongst Women John McGahern English   🇮🇪
21 Lust, Caution Eileen Chang Chinese   🇨🇳
22 Changing Clothes In China Antonia Finnane English   🇦🇺
23 Fathers And Sons Ivan Turgenev Russian   🇷🇺
24 I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith English   🇬🇧
25 Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin English   Who Can Say
26 On Photography Susan Sontag English   🇺🇸
27 Katalin Street Magda Szabó Hungarian   🇭🇺
28 Perfume Patrick Süskind German   🇩🇪
29 Confessions Of A Mask Yukio Mishimi Japanese   🇯🇵
30 The Right To Sex Amia Srinivasan English   ???
31 The White Album Joan Didion English   🇺🇸
32 Thirst For Love Yukio Mishima Japanese   🇯🇵
33 Kindgom Of Characters Jing Tsu English   🇹🇼
2023          
1 That They May Face The Rising Sun John McGahern English   🇮🇪
2 The Poppy War R.F. Kuang English   🇨🇳
3 Women, Race And Class Angela Y. Davis English   🇺🇸
4 Tokyo Express Seichō Matsumoto Japanese   🇯🇵
5 Star Yukio Mishimi Japanese   🇯🇵
6 The Crying Of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon English   🇺🇸
7 Another Day Of Life Ryszard Kapuściński Polish   🇵🇱
8 Troubles J.G. Farrell English   🇬🇧
9 Notes Of A Crocodile Qiu Miaojin Chinese   🇹🇼
10 Red Memory Tania Branigan English   🇬🇧
11 The Last Quarter Of The Moon Chi Zijian Chinese   🇨🇳
12 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë English   🇬🇧
13 The Fawn Magda Szabó Hungarian   🇭🇺
14 Cite Gate, Open Up Bei Dao Chinese   🇨🇳
15 The Story Of The Stone Vol.1 Cao Xueqin Chinese David Hawkes 🇨🇳
16 The Story Of The Stone Vol.2 Cao Xueqin Chinese David Hawkes 🇨🇳
17 Shakey Jimmy McDonough English   🇺🇸
18 Adolph Hitler, My Part In His Downfall Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
19 Rommel? Gunner Who? Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
20 Monty, His Part In My Victory Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
21 Contempt Alberto Moravia Italian   🇮🇹
22 Mussolini, His Part In My Downfall Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
23 The Emperor Ryszard Kapuściński Polish   🇵🇱
24 Small Country Gaël Faye French   🇧🇮
25 Heaven Mieko Kawakami Japanese   🇯🇵
26 Goodbye Solider Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
27 Peace Work Spike Milligan English   🇬🇧
28 The Story Of The Stone Vol.3 Cao Xueqin & Gao E Chinese David Hawkes 🇨🇳
29 Solaris Stanisław Lem Polish   🇵🇱
2024          
1 Resurrection Leo Tolstoy Russian   🇷🇺
2 A Life’s Music Andrei Makine Russian   🇷🇺
3 This Plague Of Souls Mike McCormack English   🇮🇪
4 Silence Shusaku Endo Japanese   🇯🇵
5 All The Lovers In The Night Mieko Kawakami Japanese Sam Bett & David Boyd 🇯🇵
6 Strangers I Know Claudia Durastante Italian Elizabeth Harris 🇮🇹
7 The Good Earth Pearl Buck English   🇺🇸
8 Providence Lost Paul Lay English   🇬🇧
9 To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf English   🇬🇧
10 The Summer Book Tove Jansson Swedish   🇫🇮
11 Flowers For Algernon Daniel Keyes English   🇺🇸
12 The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000 Diarmuid Ferriter English   🇮🇪
13 Return To Dragon Mountain Jonathan D. Spence English   🇬🇧
14 The Dead Beat Marilyn Johnson English   🇺🇸
15 Dubliners James Joyce English   🇮🇪
16 Working Robert Caro English   🇺🇸
17 The Rings Of Saturn W.G. Sebald German   🇩🇪
18 Other Rivers Peter Hessler English   🇺🇸
19 The Great Flowing River Chi Pang-yuan Chinese   🇹🇼
20 Orlando Virginia Woolf English   🇬🇧
21 A Place In The Country W.G. Sebald German   🇩🇪
22 Middlemarch George Elliot English   🇬🇧
23 The Radetzky March Joseph Roth German   🇦🇹
24 On A Chinese Screen W. Somerset Maugham English   🇬🇧
2025          
1 Vertigo W.G. Sebald German Michael Hulse 🇩🇪
2 A Swim In The Pond In The Rain George Saunders English   🇺🇸
3 João Gilberto And Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto Bryann McCann English   🇺🇸
4 Gilberto Gil’s Refazenda Marc A. Hertzman English   🇺🇸
5 The Corner Club Jonathon Grasse English   🇺🇸
6 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf English   🇬🇧
7 Golden Age Wang Xiaobo Chinese Yan Yan 🇨🇳
8 The Bridge on the Drina Ivo Andrić Serbo-Croatian Lovett F. Edwards Yugoslavia