This is an ongoing list of the books I have read this year. I will link (spoiler-free) reviews as I write them.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea — Yukio Mishima
An analysis of the themes of this book is central to my May 2028 Youtube video.
Malicroix — by Henri Bosco
My review of this book can be found here.
The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard
Travels In the Scriptorium — Paul Auster
(Narrative aspects of this book feature in my essay Our Present Condition, in which I discuss the use of present tense in fiction.)
Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
Larger Than Life (or The Singularity) — by Dino Buzzati
My review of this book can be found here.
The Catcher In the Rye — by J.D. Salinger (reread)
(Discussed at length in a video on my Youtube channel)
People In the Room — by Norah Lange
Balcony In the Forest — Julien Gracq (reread)
On the Marble Cliffs — by Ernst Jünger (the Stuart Hood translation)
No Longer Human — by Dazai Osamu (reread) (the Donald Keene translation)
Rhinocéros — by Eugène Ionesco
The Memoir of an Anti-Hero — by Kornel Filipowicz
A Dark Stranger — by Julien Gracq
A Season in Hell — by Arthur Rimbaud (reread)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill — by G.K. Chesterton
I am glad to have found your stack.
Some very interesting and left-of-field books you’re reading! Will have to grab some of these.