I’m starting this on 3rd April 2025. Some of these are backdated, but I plan to use this to track every book I read.
The Bookshelf
My incomplete reading list.
Last updated at 6:33 PM, 9th November 2026
Septology
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
Alberuni's India
The Broken Script
The Beginning of Infinity
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The Lessons of History
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Accelerando
The Red Laugh
The Remains of the Day
The Passion According to G.H.
The Glass Bead Game
The Age of Reason
Steppenwolf
Oblomov
Franny and Zooey
East of Eden
Dreams
Confessions
Collected Fictions
A Breath of Life
Unto This Last
Hind Swaraj
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
The Bell Jar
Representative Men
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Siddhartha
Piranesi
Middlemarch
Foundation
Walden
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
Swann's Way
Letters to a Young Poet
Água Viva
Fear and Trembling
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Story of Art
The Post-Office Girl
Missing Person
In the Café of Lost Youth
Invisible Cities
Why Men Rebel
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Pale Fire
Mrs Dalloway
Hyperbole and a Half
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Stubborn Attachments
The Player of Games
Near to the Wild Heart
Women in Love
The Rainbow
Sons and Lovers
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Simple Passion
Fortress Besieged
How to Live
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Media Control
The Fixer
The Big Sleep
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Leviathan Wakes
The Maltese Falcon
The Joy Luck Club
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Trust
What Happened in History
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
The Nitopadesha
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
Tree
The Sound and the Fury
Eleven
As I Lay Dying
Consider Phlebas
| Title | Author | Rating | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Septology | Jon Fosse | Reading | |
 | The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America | Bill Bryson | Reading | |
 | Alberuni's India | Alberuni | Want to Read | |
 | The Broken Script | Swapna Liddle | Want to Read | |
 | The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | Want to Read | |
 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | Want to Read | |
 | The Lessons of History | Will Durant and Ariel Durant | Want to Read | |
 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera | Want to Read | |
 | The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert A. Caro | Want to Read | |
 | Accelerando | Charles Stross | Want to Read | |
 | The Red Laugh | Leonid Andreyev | Want to Read | |
 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | Want to Read | |
 | The Passion According to G.H. | Clarice Lispector | Want to Read | |
 | The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | Want to Read | |
 | The Age of Reason | Jean-Paul Sartre | Want to Read | |
 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | Want to Read | |
 | Oblomov | Ivan Goncharov | Want to Read | |
 | Franny and Zooey | J. D. Salinger | Want to Read | |
 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | Want to Read | |
 | Dreams | C. G. Jung | Want to Read | |
 | Confessions | Augustine of Hippo | Want to Read | |
 | Collected Fictions | Jorge Luis Borges | Want to Read | |
 | A Breath of Life | Clarice Lispector | Want to Read | |
 | Unto This Last | John Ruskin | Want to Read | |
 | Hind Swaraj | M. K. Gandhi | Want to Read | |
 | Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant | Want to Read | |
 | The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | Read | |
 | Representative Men | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Want to Read | |
 | The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else | Hernando de Soto | Want to Read | |
 | Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Want to Read | |
 | Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Want to Read | |
 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | Want to Read | |
 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | Want to Read | |
 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Want to Read | |
 | The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering | Byung-Chul Han | Want to Read | |
 | Swann's Way | Marcel Proust | Want to Read | |
 | Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke | Want to Read | |
 | Água Viva | Clarice Lispector | Want to Read | |
 | Fear and Trembling | Søren Kierkegaard | Want to Read | |
 | The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows | John Koenig | Want to Read | |
 | The Story of Art | E. H. Gombrich | Want to Read | |
 | The Post-Office Girl | Stefan Zweig | Want to Read | |
 | Missing Person | Patrick Modiano | Want to Read | |
 | In the Café of Lost Youth | Patrick Modiano | Want to Read | |
 | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino | Read | |
 | Why Men Rebel | Ted Robert Gurr | Want to Read | |
 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Read | |
 | The Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy | Read | |
 | Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | Want to Read | |
 | Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | Want to Read | |
 | Hyperbole and a Half | Allie Brosh | Read | |
 | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | William Blake | Want to Read | |
 | Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead | Olga Tokarczuk | Read | |
 | Stubborn Attachments | Tyler Cowen | Read | |
 | The Player of Games | Ian M Banks | Read | |
 | Near to the Wild Heart | Clarice Lispector | Want to Read | |
 | Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | Want to Read | |
 | The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | Want to Read | |
 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | Want to Read | |
 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Want to Read | |
 | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock | Want to Read | |
 | Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami | Read | |
 | Simple Passion | Annie Ernaux | Want to Read | |
 | Fortress Besieged | Qian Zhongshu | Want to Read | |
 | How to Live | Derek Sivers | Abandoned | |
 | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Paused | |
 | The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music | Dave Grohl | Read | |
 | South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | Read | |
 | Media Control | Noam Chomsky | Read | |
 | The Fixer | Bernard Malamud | Want to Read | |
 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | Want to Read | |
 | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed | James C. Scott | Want to Read | |
 | Leviathan Wakes | James S A Corey | Read | |
 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett | Want to Read | |
 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan | Want to Read | |
 | The Art of Doing Science and Engineering | Richard W Hamming | Read | |
 | Trust | Hernan Diaz | Want to Read | |
 | What Happened in History | V. Gordon Childe | Want to Read | |
 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | Want to Read | |
 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | Want to Read | |
 | The Nitopadesha | Nitin Pai | Read | |
 | Deceit, Desire, and the Novel | René Girard | Want to Read | |
 | Tree | Aya Kōda | Want to Read | |
 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | Want to Read | |
 | Eleven | Patricia Highsmith | Want to Read | |
 | As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | Want to Read | |
 | Consider Phlebas | Ian M Banks | Read |