Reading

Here are (most of) the books and essays I have read over the last few years…

2026

• Tao te ching by Laozi August
• The proof in the code by Hartnett August
• The Nine Billion Names of God by Clarke July
• Through a glass darkly by Krantz July
• Apology by Plato July
• Quran (the opening, the cow) July
• Un combat by Süskind July
• Blackberries in the dream house by Frank July
• Knowledge collapse by Harris June
• Meditations (Books 1 - 6) by Aurelius May
• Images by Skinner May
• Rencontres avec l’Impact by Werner May
• The human condition (prologue) by Arendt May
• The book of all loves by Mallo April
• Les fleurs du mal (Spleen et Idéal) by Baudelaire April
• Love in the void by Weil April
• Adulthood in the zone by deBoer April
• State of the union by Hornby March
• The gay science by Nietzsche February
• The book of tea by Okakura January

2025

• Le gentil petit diable by Gripari December
• Normal people by Rooney December
• Un jour mon prince viendra by Wittig December
• Les chants de Maldoror (first song) by Lautréamont December
• Hamlet by Shakespeare November
• Si une nuit d’hiver un voyageur by Calvino November
• The goon squad by Kolitz November
• In the penal colony by Kafka November
• Sister outsider: essays and speeches (select chapters) by Lorde October
• Burning in water, drowning in flame by Bukowski September
• Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes by Wallace September
• The moral instinct by Pinker September
• Giovanni’s room by Baldwin August
• The little prince by Saint-Exupéry August
• L’amour est aveugle by Vian August
• Your review (ACX) August
• La mort d’Ivan Ilitch by Tolstoï August
• Fureur et mystère by Char August
• Intermezzo by Rooney August
• L’alchimiste by Coelho July
• Carmilla by Le Fanu July
• Naked (select chapters) by Sedaris June
• Passion simple by Ernaux June
• When we cease to understand the world by Labatut May
• Brave new world by Huxley May
• Le misanthrope by Molière May
• Le philosophe by Dumarsais May
• La métamorphose by Kafka May
• René by Chateaubriand April
• Le peintre de la vie moderne by Baudelaire April
• La tresse by Colombani April
• J’accuse…! by Zola April
• Manifeste du surréalisme by Breton April
• All about love by hooks April
• Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Césaire April
• L’existentialisme est un humanisme by Sartre April
• Le deuxième sexe (introduction and conclusion) by de Beauvoir April
• Le conflit: la femme et la mère (select chapters) by Badinter April
• L’arrache-cœur by Vian March
• Le mage du Kremlin by da Empoli February
• L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être by Kundera February
• Je vais mieux by Foenkinos January

2024

• Thus spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche December
• Trans girl suicide museum (select chapters) by Baer November
• The book of Brooke by Bensen November
• Slouching towards Bethlehem (select chapters) by Didion October
• Les confidences by Nimier October
• Des éclairs by Echenoz September
• En attendant Bojangles by Bourdeaut September
• Being mortal by Gawande September
• Dom Juan by Molière August
• Letters to a young poet by Rilke August
• Cent ans de solitude by Márquez August
• Nous nous reverrons en août by Márquez July
• Le petit prince by Saint-Exupéry July
• Living an examined life by Hollis July
• Le mythe de Sisyphe by Camus July
• Au sud de la frontière, à l’ouest du soleil by Murakami May
• Classic Supreme Court cases by Brettschneider May
• A gentleman in Moscow by Towles May
• La vie sexuelle de Catherine Millet by Millet April
• Eve by Bohannon April
• Les jardins de lumière by Maalouf March
• Different by de Waal February
• The investment answer by Goldie and Murray January
• Braiding sweetgrass by Kimmerer January