𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝟮𝗞𝟮𝟲

Titles marked with an asterisk* are books I have previously.

𝙏𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚	𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧	𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨
The Light Fantastic	Terry Pratchett	Discworld is as good as ever. While it's not the most challenging series, you always do pick up a few new words and expressions.
When the Air Hits Your Brain	Frank Vertosick	This book is both tongue in cheek and an excellent way to scratch the itch of learning just enough about neurosurgery to discourage you from pursuing it.
Two Cheers For Anarchism	James C. Scott	A nice introduction to an anarchist view of the world, concepts such as Anarchist Callisthenics are quite interesting.
Flights	Olga Tokarczuk	She won the Nobel Prize for a reason - I highly recommend.
Oblomov	Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov	Back once more to russian literature. It's good though - eerily relatable.
Água Viva	Clarice Lispector	The most unique and self-confident thing I've read in a while. Probably the best so far.
The Benefactor*	Susan Sontang	I don't know whether it was as enjoyable the second time around, but nonetheless a good book.
How To Win at College	Cal Newport	Certainly a more pragmatic title, pretty easy to read. Time will tell if I absorbed anything.
The Apple In The Dark	Clarice Lispector	She's the best author I've ever read. Read this.
Blindness	José Saramago	Nicely self contained, and at its high points, quite profound.
The Stranger	Albert Camus	I'd hate to dumb it down to "mini Crime and Punishment", but that was the lasting impression. The first half does have some nice slice-of-life moments.
Naked Lunch	William Burroughs	A difficult thing to get through, quite abhorrent at times. However, you can see what he's going for. Bears closer inspection.
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	Definitely long overdue on my part, thoroughly enjoyable though a weaker second half or final third. I will be reading more of Shelley.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	My first foray into Joyce and surprise, surprise it lives up to the hype. We''ll see if I can get to Ulysses this year.
The Dream Life of Balso Snell	Natanael West	West's first novella is intriguing, but according to the critics, without purpose. I found it enjoyable enough, more prep work for his later works.
Pnin	Vladimir Nabokov	This is a very well constructed novel, I tried it to have something to compare Lolita to, or to see if I'd read Lolita at all - and I have to say I definitely will now, Nabokov is precise and talented.
Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon	A vast, vast, momentous novel, and probabably the most difficult book I've read, yet one of my favourites. Pynchon's style can lead to some perplexing sections, but overall a significant talent shines through reliably. I'm heading immediately to secondary literature.
Ursule Mirouët	Honoré de Balzac	Honestly felt underwhelming, but I'd attribute that to comparing it to Gravity's Rainbow. Overall a perfectly good book, certainly a good outline of what a classic should be.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Joanne Greenberg	An endearing account of an extreme struggle for mental health in the truest sense of the world. Interesting as it's semi-autobiographical too.
The Medium is the Massage	Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore	Decades ahead of its time, a must read fusion of essay and graphic design
The Tree of Lies	Christopher S. Hyatt	New Age Spirituality may be a bridge too far for some, but I found a lot of value in this work, from its comprehensive selection of aphorisms to its deeper conclusions and advice. I would recomend.
The Passion According to G.H.	Clarice Lispector	The same incredible stuff as ever. However, I initially wasn't as enamoured as I expected I'd be, the tone of this novel is definitely more melancholic than her other stuff that I've read. At times I felt she was caught between introspection and narrative, but I fell back in love with it in its latter stages. Cementing her place as my favourite author.