I started keeping a track of the books I read around late 2022. I'll incude a few books from 2022 but the list proper will begin from 2023. I also read a lot of stuff before that of course but for I'm not including that here.

The list is sorted in the order I finished them in, with the most recent being first.

2024

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski: I'm not gonna be normal for a while. When I am, I'm gonna read it again and not gonna be normal once more.
• The Darkest Hour WC#6
• A Dangerous Path WC#5
• Rising Storm WC#4
• Forest of Secrets WC#3
• Fire & Ice WC#2
• Into the Wild Warrior Cats #1
• Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White: I love the grittyness and thee gore and the gay people and the meaning of being a monster. Very Signalis & Magnus Archives-esque
• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers: Started off very strong but the later parts were meh.
• Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg: Required reading. In general.

2023

• Guards! Guards! (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
• Reaper Man (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett: My first Discworld.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
• Macbeth by Shakespeare: I read this for Halloween and then watched the 2022 OSP Halloween special which was a re-enactment of it. Go watch the highlights if you've read Macbeth.
• Tragical History of Dr. Faustus by Marlowe
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: Kind of orientalist and pro-British imperialism but good writing regardless. Also amazing plot twist at the end.
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Dune by Mark Fisher: Heartbreaking, stellar worldbuilding and writing undercut by homophobia and space eugenics.
• Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
• Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin A. Saenz: I read this during an internet blockage in my city owing to a political assassination. Formatted in a way that is really easy and fun to read
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg: Probably my favorite book till date. I can't praise it enough
• The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
• The Invisible Man by HG Wells
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: The feeling of being a burden and a curse upon your loved ones is messed up fr.
• Heartstopper Volumes 1-5 by Alice Oseman
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: The denial of redemption as a theme really messed me up for a while. Also Dorian Gray is an adhd icon idc what anyone says.
• Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu
• The Stranger by Albert Camus

2022

• Mahabharata abridged by Carole Satyamurthy
• The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare: How can you be so antisemitic and so gay simultaneously?
• The Prince by Machiavelli: This is what you get when you ask a pro-republic guy to write a pro-monarchist text.
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: The first queer book I ever read.
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur C. Doyle
• The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur C. Doyle
• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur C. Doyle