My Bookshelf

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Costume design by Alexander Golovin for L'Oiseau de feu (1910).

If you have a recommendation or want to discuss a book, please do email me. Books may include reviews, or strings of thought; such titles are underlined. Boxes scroll.

Reading

The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

The Voice of Dolphins, Leo Szilard

Judging Edward Teller, Istvan Hargittai


Completed

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (II)

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald

Dark Sun, Richard Rhodes

Edward Teller, Peter Goodchild

2023 ——————————————

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut (III)

The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman

The Occupation Trilogy, Patrick Modiano

The Vichy Syndrome, Henry Rousso (II)

American Prometheus, Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

Either/Or, Elif Bautman

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Between Dignity and Despair, Marion Kaplan

Memoirs, Edward Teller

The Decameron Project, The New York Times

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (II)


Sometime Soon...

Adam's Breed, Radclyffe Hall

Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner








Some Favorites

Cat's Cradle Cat's Cradle
Vonnegut
Watership Down Watership Down
Adams
Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies
Golding
The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger
Giovanni's Room Giovanni's Room
Baldwin
Another Country Another Country
Baldwin
The Secret History The Secret History
Tartt
American Prometheus American Prometheus
Bird & Sherwin
Vichy Syndrome Vichy Syndrome
Rousso

May 7th, 2024 — I wish I could have saved you, Hareton Earnshaw. You know, saved you without having you marry your cousin.