Here are (most of) the books and essays I have read over the last couple years…
2026
- State of the union - Hornby (March)
- The gay science - Nietzsche (February)
- The book of tea - Kakuzō (January)
2025
- Le gentil petit diable - Gripari (December)
- Normal people - Rooney (December)
- Un jour mon prince viendra - Wittig (December)
- Les chants de Maldoror - Lautréamont (first song) (December)
- Hamlet - Shakespeare (November)
- Si une nuit d’hiver un voyageur - Calvino (November)
- The goon squad - Kolitz (November)
- In the penal colony - Kafka (November)
- Sister outsider: essays and speeches - Lorde (select chapters) (October)
- Burning in water, drowning in flame - Bukowski (September)
- Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes - Wallace (September)
- The moral instinct - Pinker (September)
- Giovanni’s room - Baldwin (August)
- The little prince - Saint-Exupéry (August)
- L’amour est aveugle - Vian (August)
- Your review (ACX) - Anonymous (August)
- La mort d’Ivan Illitch - Tolstoï (August)
- Fureur et mystère - Char (August)
- Intermezzo - Rooney (August)
- L’alchimiste - Coelho (July)
- Carmilla - Le Fanu (July)
- Naked - Sedaris (select chapters) (June)
- Passion simple - Ernaux (June)
- When we cease to understand the world - Labatut (May)
- Brave new world - Huxley (May)
- Le misanthrope - Molière (May)
- Le philosophe - Dumarsais (May)
- La métamorphose - Kafka (May)
- René - Chateaubriand (April)
- Le peintre de la vie moderne - Baudelaire (April)
- La tresse - Colombani (April)
- J’accuse…! - Zola (April)
- Manifeste du surréalisme - Breton (April)
- All about love - hooks (April)
- Cahier d’un retour au pays natal - Césaire (April)
- L’existentialisme est un humanisme - Sartre (April)
- Le deuxième sexe - de Beauvoir (introduction and conclusion) (April)
- Le conflit: la femme et la mère - Badinter (select chapters) (April)
- L’arrache-cœur - Vian (March)
- Le mage du Kremlin - da Empoli (February)
- L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être - Kundera (February)
- Je vais mieux - Foenkinos (January)
2024
- Thus spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche (December)
- Trans girl suicide museum - Baer (select chapters) (November)
- The Book of Brooke - Bensen (November)
- Slouching towards Bethlehem - Didion (select chapters) (October)
- Les confidences - Nimier (October)
- Des éclairs - Echenoz (September)
- En attendant Bojangles - Boudreaut (September)
- Being mortal - Gawande (September)
- Dom Juan - Molière (August)
- Letters to a young poet - Rilke (August)
- Cent ans de solitude - Márquez (August)
- Nous nous reverrons en août - Márquez (July)
- Le petit prince - Saint-Exupéry (July)
- Living an examined life - Hollis (July)
- Le mythe de Sisyphe - Camus (July)
- Au sud de la frontière, a l’ouest du soleil - Murakami (May)
- Classic supreme court cases - Brettschneider (May)
- A gentleman in Moscow - Towles (May)
- La vie sexuelle de Catherine Millet - Millet (April)
- Eve - Bohannon (April)
- Le jardin de lumière - Malouf (March)
- Different - de Waal (February)
- The investment answer - Goldie and Murray (January)
- Braiding sweetgrass - Kimmerer (January)