I’ve finished 34 books half way through the year. Not a sprinter’s pace, but it is more titles than I finished in all of 2022. The list is below. There are some highlights. There are always highlights. I finished two books by the late Mark Fisher and also read probably 70% of his k-punk blog. On a whim of the calendar, I gave myself a new reading project, and I’ve read a number of books published in 1923 (100 years ago). Three massively important books of poetry came out that year. Harmonium by Stevens. New Hampshire by Frost and Duino Elegies by Rilke.
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My two favorite reviews I wrote this year are probably:
My review of Wall by Jen Craig here.
My review of The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis here.
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Best book so far is The Portrait of A Lady.
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My favorite is probably Peer Gynt.
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Here is the list in order of finish date:
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen 2021
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876
The Poor Mouth Flann O’Brien 1941
White Bret Easton Ellis 2019
Actual Air David Berman 1999
The Shards Bret Easton Ellis 2023
Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher 2009
The Philosophy of Money Georg Simmel 2000
Ghosts of My Life Mark Fisher 2014
Monstrilio Gerardo Samano Cordova 2023
The Reactionary Mind Corey Robin 2017
Men in the Off Hours Anne Carson 2000
Aphorisms Franz Kafka 1919
New Hampshire Robert Frost 1923
The Beauty of the Husband Anne Carson 2001
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov 1904
The Rover Joseph Conrad 1923
Harmonium Wallace Stevens 1923
Take Arms Against a Sea of Trouble Harold Bloom 2020
A Lost Lady Willa Cather 1923
Book of Twilight Pablo Neruda 1923
Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1876
Birds, Beasts and Flowers DH Lawrence 1923
How to Read and Why Harold Bloom 2000
Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke 1923
No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021
Wall Jen Craig 2023
Mary Vladimir Nabokov 1926
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 1899
Encounters Elizabeth Bowen 1923
The Belan Deck Matt Bucher 2023
Neutral Evil Lee Klein 2019
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James 1881
King, Queen, Knave Vladimir Nabokov 1928
Talking Big 
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