reading log

since the winter solstice of 2023. an asterisk (*) indicates a reread; a pound sign (#) indicates something I quit on.

  1. The Mothman Prophecies, John A Keel
  2. Short Poems, John Berryman
  3. Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges*
  4. The Dark Side of Christian History, Helen Ellerbe
  5. Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison
  6. The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher#
  7. Collected Poems, Dylan Thomas
  8. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Paul L. Williams#
  9. History and Utopia, Emil Cioran
  10. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Lord Byron
  11. Life on Mars, Tracy K. Smith
  12. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
  13. Look At This Blue, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
  14. The Secret History of the World as Laid Down by the Secret Societies, Mark Booth
  15. The Art of Fiction, John Gardner
  16. 2666, Roberto Bolaño
  17. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs*
  18. Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?, Jean Baudrillard
  19. America, Jean Baudrillard*
  20. Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, W. David Marx
  21. The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse#
  22. The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan
  23. The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics, Herbert Marcuse
  24. Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson*
  25. The Dunwich Horror and Others, H.P. Lovecraft
  26. The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra
  27. American Tabloid, James Ellroy#
  28. Sacred Geometry and Magical Symbols, Iva Kenaz
  29. Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
  30. The Science of Getting Rich: Financial Success Through Creative Thought, Wallace D. Wattles
  31. The Trial, Franz Kafka*
  32. Revolutionary Letters, Diane DiPrima*
  33. CCRU: Writings, 1997-2003
  34. Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, Carlo Levi
  35. My First Book, Honor Levy
  36. Warlock, Oakley Hall
  37. Happening, Annie Ernaux
  38. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch
  39. The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the 20th Century, Geoffrey O’Brien
  40. The Tennis Court Oath, John Ashbery
  41. A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  42. Satantango, László Krasznahorkai
  43. Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy*
  44. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eduardo Galeano
  45. Cinema 1: Movement-Image, Gilles Deleuze
  46. Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life, Theodor Adorno
  47. House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski#
  48. The Occult, Colin Wilson
  49. Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
  50. Nature and Life, Alfred North Whitehead
  51. Inferno, Dante Alighieri (tr. John Ciardi)