Books List
Books read for leisure and 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 Soldier | 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 |
| 9 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 🇬🇧 | |
| 10 | Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | English | 🇬🇧 | |
| 11 | Greek Lessons | Han Kang | Korean | Deborah Smith & E. Yaewon | 🇰🇷 |
| 12 | The Maverick Pig (Penguin Archive Edition) | Wang Xiaobo | Chinese | Yan Yan & Eric Abrahamsen | 🇨🇳 |
| 13 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers | Xiaolu Guo | English | 🇨🇳 | |
| 14 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | English | 🇬🇧 | |
| 15 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | English | 🇮🇪 | |
| 16 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jermone | English | 🇬🇧 | |
| 17 | Swann’s Way | Marcel Proust | French | C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terrence Kilmartin & D.J. Enright | 🇫🇷 |
| 18 | Born Under Saturn | Margot and Rudolf Wittkower | English | 🇩🇪 | |
| 19 | Twenty Minutes in Manhatten | Michael Sorkin | English | 🇺🇸 | |
| 20 | More Work for Mother | Ruth Schwartz Cohen | English | 🇺🇸 | |
| 21 | The Ice Palace | Tarjei Vesaas | Norwegian | Elizabeth Rokkan | 🇳🇴 |
| 22 | Exteriors | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 23 | A Woman’s Story | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 24 | A Man’s Place | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 25 | Happening | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 26 | Simple Passion | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 27 | Shame | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 28 | I Remain in Darkness | Annie Ernaux | French | Tanya Leslie | 🇫🇷 |
| 29 | Beyond the Neon Lights | Lu Hanchao | English | 🇨🇳 | |
| 30 | A Frozen Woman | Annie Ernaux | French | Linda Coverdale | 🇫🇷 |
| 31 | Do What They Say or Else | Annie Ernaux | French | Christopher Beach & Carrie Noland | 🇫🇷 |
| 32 | The Years | Annie Ernaux | French | Alison L. Strayer | 🇫🇷 |
| 33 | Things Seen | Annie Ernaux | French | Jonathan Kaplansky | 🇫🇷 |
| 34 | Getting Lost | Annie Ernaux | French | Alison L. Strayer | 🇫🇷 |
| 35 | The Possession | Annie Ernaux | French | Anna Moschovakis | 🇫🇷 |
| 36 | The Young Man | Annie Ernaux | French | Alison L. Strayer | 🇫🇷 |
| 37 | Look at the Lights, My Love | Annie Ernaux | French | Alison L. Strayer | 🇫🇷 |
| 38 | Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB, 1965-1985 | Charles Andrew Perrone | English | 🇺🇸 | |
| 39 | An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics | Eugene Perry Link | English | 🇺🇸 | |
| 2026 | |||||
| 1 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | English | 🇺🇸 | |
| 2 | On Close Reading | John Guillory & Scott L. Newstok | English | 🇺🇸 |