Reading &c.

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

These are the 6 books I have read in 2026 (so far!) See here for what I read last year.

Fiction

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1880
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. 1929
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. 1980
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth. 1997
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. 2003
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. 2007

Non-fiction

• This is True by Iam Liar. 4341