Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
I discuss the books I'm planning to read in 2024:
New Releases
James by Percival Everett
Continuing to read some favorite authors:
Hermann Hesse - The Journey to the East
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
Teddy Wayne - Loner
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Jane Austen - Emma and maybe Persuasion
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye and Trouble is my Business
Ann Leckie - Translation State
Philip K Dick - Valis
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
W Somerset Maugham - maybe Short Stories?
J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit
Visit some new (to me) authors:
Marilynne Robinson.- Gilead
Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation and The Wisdom of the Desert
Colm Toíbín - House of Names
Jon Fosse - The Other Name: Septology I-II
Flannery O’Connor - The Violent Bear it Away
Continue/Complete Series:
Robert Jordan - Last 4 Books of Wheel of Time Series (complete the series)
Iain M Banks - Two Books in The Culture Series
Isaac Asimov - Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation (complete the series)
Historical Fiction:
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Augustus by John Williams
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Nabguib Mahfouz
History
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
The World of Odysseus by MI Finley
House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale
Magic Time: The Films and Scripts of Billy Wilder by J.R. Jordan
Biography/Memoir
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to the Life and Work by Gary Lachman
A U.S. President - probably American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Philosophy/Spiritual:
In Praise of Forgetting by David Rieff
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time by Marc Wittman
The Roots of Christian Mysticism by Olivier Clément
Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Transition by Matthew Fox
Confucius and the Analects: New Essays by Bryan W. Van Norden
From Religion to Philosophy by Francis Macdonald Cornford
The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates
Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilbur
The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernst Becker
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Republic by Plato
Other/Miscellaneous
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
I discuss the books I'm planning to read in 2024:
New Releases
James by Percival Everett
Continuing to read some favorite authors:
Hermann Hesse - The Journey to the East
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity
Teddy Wayne - Loner
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Jane Austen - Emma and maybe Persuasion
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye and Trouble is my Business
Ann Leckie - Translation State
Philip K Dick - Valis
Haruki Murakami - Sputnik Sweetheart
W Somerset Maugham - maybe Short Stories?
J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit
Visit some new (to me) authors:
Marilynne Robinson.- Gilead
Thomas Merton - New Seeds of Contemplation and The Wisdom of the Desert
Colm Toíbín - House of Names
Jon Fosse - The Other Name: Septology I-II
Flannery O’Connor - The Violent Bear it Away
Continue/Complete Series:
Robert Jordan - Last 4 Books of Wheel of Time Series (complete the series)
Iain M Banks - Two Books in The Culture Series
Isaac Asimov - Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation (complete the series)
Historical Fiction:
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Augustus by John Williams
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth by Nabguib Mahfouz
History
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
A War Like No Other by Victor Davis Hanson
The World of Odysseus by MI Finley
House of Medici by Christopher Hibbert
The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale
Magic Time: The Films and Scripts of Billy Wilder by J.R. Jordan
Biography/Memoir
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to the Life and Work by Gary Lachman
A U.S. President - probably American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
Philosophy/Spiritual:
In Praise of Forgetting by David Rieff
Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences Out of Time by Marc Wittman
The Roots of Christian Mysticism by Olivier Clément
Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality in New Transition by Matthew Fox
Confucius and the Analects: New Essays by Bryan W. Van Norden
From Religion to Philosophy by Francis Macdonald Cornford
The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates
Up from Eden: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution by Ken Wilbur
The Birth and Death of Meaning by Ernst Becker
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
The Republic by Plato
Other/Miscellaneous
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? by Horace McCoy
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
