goal for the year: complete at least thirty books.

completed:

• the song of achilles by madeline miller ★★★★★
  • mini review: lovely direct clean cut prose ; miller handles patroclus' first person narration incredibly well after his death ; cried my fucking eyes out near the end ; achilles and patroclus being committed to each other fuck me ; the underlying hinted disapproval of rape cultural is a+ ; the internal conflict of two boys being in love with each other is so well done.
• the book thief by markus zusak ★★★★☆
  • mini review: such an inventive approach on narration and the idea of a personalized death ; fiction set in nazi germany focusing on children always strikes a cord (read: the boy in striped pajamas) ; a novel that makes me hate humans but believe in them all the same ; also cried my fucking eyes out ; i was kinda put off by the narrator's constant foreshadowing gdi.
• the charioteer by mary renault ★★★★★
  • mini review: fucking love mary renault i wanna marry her i could marry her ; her prose is otherworldly and every sentence makes you want to die ; this book needs an attentive reader who can read situations and understands the wordless human language ; im probably gonna read it again ; the characters are memorable and exceedingly interesting.
• the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald ★★★★☆
• catcher in the rye by j.d salinger ★★★☆☆
• member of the wedding by carson mccullers ★★★★☆
• wuthering heights by emily bronte ★★☆☆☆
• jane eyre by charlotte bronte ★★★★☆
• ender's game by orson scott card ★★★★☆
• the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde ★★★★★
• the time traveler's wife by audrey niffenegger ★★★☆☆
• lord of the flies by william golding ★★★★☆
• the house of the spirits by isabel Allende ★★☆☆☆
• things as they are by william godwin ★★★☆☆
• wide sargasso sea by jean rhys ★★☆☆☆
• aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz ★★★★★

in progress:

• the silver linings playbook by matthew quick
• anna karenina by leo tolstoy // ongoing
• the shining by stephen king // hiatus
• after dark by haruki murakami // hiatus
• kafka on the shore by haruki murakami // hiatus
• the game of kings by dorothy dunnett // hiatus
• the last of the wine by mary renault // ongoing

☑ in possession ebook ver. ✔ in possession book ver. ☐ need to purchase

to read:

• dance dance dance by haruki murakami ☐
• lolita by vladimir nabokov ☑
• the alexander trilogy by mary renault ☑
• never let me go by kazuo ishiguro ☑
• cloud atlas by david mitchell ☑
• clockwork orange by anthony burgess ☑
• oryx and crake by margaret atwood ☐
• the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood ☑
• 1q84 by haruki murakami ☑
• the english patient by michael ondaatje ☑
• maurice by e.m. forster ☑
• giovanni's room by james baldwin ☑
• julian by gore vidal ☑
• the blind assassin by margaret atwood ☑
• the robber bride by margaret atwood ☑
• the penelopiad by margaret atwood ☑
• at swim two birds by jamie o'neill ☐
• the wings of the dove by henry james ☐
• a single man by christopher isherwood ☑
• wolf hall by hilary mantel ☐
• another country by james baldwin ☑
• memoirs of hadrian by marguerite yourcenar ☑
• east of eden by john steinbeck ☐
• the fall by albert camus ☐
• the garden of eden by earnest hemmingway ☐
• fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury ☑
• the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers ☐
• the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera ☐
• the book thief by markus zusak ☑
• invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk ☑
• fight club by chuck Palahniuk ☐
• perfume the story of a murderer by patrick suskind ☐
• red dragon by thomas harris ☐
• any human heart by william boyd ☐
• middlesex by jeffrey eugenides ☐
• the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro ☑
• sacred hunger by barry unsworth ☐
• the stranger by albert camus ☐
• the wasteland by t.s eliot ☐
• the line of beauty by alan hollinghurst ☐
• the stranger's child by alan hollinghurst ☐
• the folding star by alan hollinghurst ☐
• christopher and his kind by christopher isherwood ☑
• the magus by john fowles ☐
• the green mile by stephen king ☐
• more than this by patrick ness ☐
• evidence of things unseen by marianne wiggins ☐
• meditations by marcus aurelius ☑
• memoirs of hadrian by marguerite yourcenar ☑
• the mask of apollo by mary renault ☐
• the praise singer by mary renault ☐
• the theseus trilogy by mary renault ☐
• death in midsummer and other stories by yukio mishima ☑
• sea of fertility trilogy by yukio mishima ☑
• fugitive pieces by anna michaels ☐
• the shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón ☐
• alias grace by margaret atwood ☐
• beloved by toni morisson ☐
• the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoyevsky ☐
• crime and punishment by fyodor dostoyevsky ☐
• demons by fyodor dostoyevsky ☐
• on the road by jack kerouac ☐
• persuasion by jane austen ☐
• the bell jar by sylvia plath ☐
• the birth of tragedy by freidrich nietzsche ☐
• the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa ☐
• the french lieutenant's woman by john fowles ☐
• the metamorphosis by frank kafka ☐
• castle by franz kafka ☐
• this side of paradise by f. scott fitzgerald ☑
• the damned and the beautiful by f. scott fitzgerald ☑
• what matters most is how well you walk through the fire by charles bukowski ☐
• the secret history by donna tartt ☐
• all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque ☐
• english passengers by matthew kneale ☐
• lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry ☐
• the gospel of loki by joanne harris ☐
• the winter sea by susanne kearsley ☐
• the devil all the time by donald ray pollock ☐
• city of thieves by david benniof ☐
• the winter king by bernard cornwell ☐
• ghost written by david mitchell ☐
• the quincunx by charles palliser ☐
• lord of the silver bow by david gemmell ☐
• the fionavar tapestry by guy gavriel kay ☐
• the name of the rose by umberto eco ☐
• stories of your life and others by ted chiang ☐
• the city and the city by china miéville ☐
• only forward by michael marshall smith ☐
• the diamond age by neal stephenson ☐
• at the mountains of madness by h.p lovecraft ☐
• the name of the wind by patrick rothfuss ☐
• the graveyard book by neil gaiman ☐
• howl's moving castle by diana wynne jones ☐
• the master and the margarita by mikhail bulgakov ☐
• the sparrow by mary doria russell ☐
• the glass castle by jeannette walls ☐
• memories of a geisha by arthur golden ☐
• the joy luck club by amy tan ☐
• still alice by lisa genova ☐
• my name is asher lev by chaim potok ☐
• night by elie wiesel ☐
• by nightfall by michael cunningham ☑
• steppenwolf by hermann hesse ☐
• the absolutist by john boyne ☐
• siddhartha by hermann hesse ☑
• the hero with a thousand faces by joseph cambell ☐
• flesh and blood by michael cunningham ☑
• valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann ☐
• a voice through a cloud by denton welch ☐
• jamie is my heart's desire by alfred chester ☐
• the exquisite corpse by alfred chester ☐
• john the posthumous jason schwartz ☐
• death in rome wolfgang koeppen ☐
• gemini by michel tournier ☐
• someone to run with by david grossman ☐
• the birds by tarjei vesaas ☐
• the slaves of solitude by patrick hamilton ☐
• replacement by tor ulven ☐
• the ballad of the sad cafe by carson mccullers ☐
• faces in the water by janet frame ☐
• we disappear by scott heim ☐
• garden ashes by danilo kiŝ ☐
• ice by anna kavan ☐
• oscar wilde by richard ellmann ☐
• the knife of never letting go by patrick ness ☐
• the lime twig by john hawkes ☐
• animalinside by laszlo krasznahorkai ☐
• the sound of the waves by yukio mishima ☐
• confessions of a mask by yukio mishima ☐
• survival in the killing fields by haing ngor ☐
• the piper's son by melina marchetta ☐
• death in venice and other stories by thomas mann ☐
• our lady of the flowers by jean genet ☐
• querelle by jean genet ☐
• a separate peace by john knowles ☐
• walden by henry david thoreau ☐
• the silmarillion by j.r.r. tolkien ☐
• metro 2033 by dmitry glukhovsky ☐
• ostland by david thomas ☐
• the last kingdom by bernard cornwell ☐
• the gone away world by nick harkaway ☐
• the immoralist by andre gide ☐
• the story of harold by terry andrews ☐
• nightwood by djuna barnes ☐
• dancer from the dance by andrew holleran ☐
• an arrow's flight by mark merlis ☐
• city of night by john rechy ☐
• brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh ☐