(* = really enjoyed)

finished:

short stories (18/?):

• the last question - isaac asimov
• the secret life of walter mitty - james thurber
• the unicorn in the garden - james thurber
• there will come soft rains - ray bradbury
• they're made out of meat - terry bisson
• the death of the moth - virgina woolf
• the million year picnic - ray bradbury
• flowers for algernon - daniel keyes (short story)
• the lottery - shirley jackson
• lamb to the slaughter - roald dahl
• a man without a country - kurt vonnegut
• the monkey's paw - w. w. jacobs
• the gift of the magi - o. henry
• hills like white elephants - ernest hemingway
• the selfish giant - oscar wilde
• the sphinx without a secret - oscar wilde
• the happy prince - oscar wilde
• napoleon and the spectre - charlotte brontë

books (21=13 books:8 audio):

• the stranger - albert camus
• wishful drinking - carrie fisher (audiobook)
• the alchemist - paulo coelho*
• talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know - malcolm gladwell (audiobook)
• the little prince - antoine de saint-expery*
• the old man and the sea - ernest hemingway
• mindy kaling - why not me? (audiobook)
• 11.22.63 - stephen king
• jon ronson - the psychopath test (audiobook)
• james thurber - the thirteen clocks (audiobook)
• eleanor oliphant is completely fine - gail honeyman*
• tampa - alissa nutting
• the midnight library - matt haig*
• harry potter and the philosopher stone - jk rowling
• candide - voltaire (audiobook)
• everything i never told you - celeste ng
• the autobiography of malcolm x - alex haley (audiobook)
• wiseguy - nicholas pileggi (audiobook)
• the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
• harry potter and the chamber of secrets - jk rowling
• the one - john marrs

poems read:

• the road not taken - robert frost
• sonnet 1 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 2 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 3 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 4 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 5 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 6 - william shakespeare
• sonnet 7 - william shakespeare
• to autumn - john keats

TLDR of read stories:

• the stranger: life is purposeless
• the last question: entropy is inevitable
• the secret life of walter mitty: daydreams
• the unicorn in the garden: one's hopes are not a certainty
• there will come soft rains: technology is useless in an empty house
• they're made out of meat: humans are an anomaly
• the death of the moth: weight of life and death
• the million year picnic: to advance you must adapt not more of the same
• the alchemist: personal legend
• flowers for algernon: perspective of the smart and the not
• the lottery: throwing stones
• lamb to the slaughter: lamb leg makes a great weapon
• the little prince: imagination vs numbers as we age/relationships make one rose unique from thousands