Reading List

  1. Psalms (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Jan 2026→
  2. Michel Houellebecq – Platform (William Heinemann) Oct→
  3. Emanuel Swedenborg – Heaven And Hell (Swedenborg Foundation) Sep→Nov 2026
  4. Maggie Dunlap & Philip Best – Pure Evil, Pure Innocence: The Maggie Dunlap Story (Amphetamine Sulphate) Sep→Oct 2026
  5. H.P. Lovecraft – Nyarlathotep, The Festival & The Haunter Of The Dark (in: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales, Barnes & Noble) Oct 2026
  6. Nguyễn Huy Thiệp – My Uncle Hoat & The Woodcutters (in: Crossing The River, Curbstone Books) Sep 2026
  7. Vũ Trọng Phụng – From Theory To Practice, Overweening Pride & The Gold Teeth (in: Light Out And Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930-1954, Northern Illinois University Press) Sep 2026
  8. Carson McCullers – The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Century Hutchinson) Aug→Sep 2026
  9. Yukio Mishima – Thirst For Love (Penguin) Jul 2026
  10. Jacob Burckhardt – The Greeks And Greek Civilization (St. Martin’s Press) Apr→Jul 2026
  11. New Juche – Heat Death, 2 (Gallows Fruit) Jun 2026
  12. Jane Bowles – Camp Cataract (in: My Sister’s Hand In Mine, Ecco) Jun 2026
  13. Paul Bowles – The Delicate Prey & Pages From Cold Point (in: Pages From Cold Point, Peter Owen) Jun 2026
  14. New Juche – Study For A Portrait (link) May 2026 [3]
  15. Matt Wallden – The Diaphragm – More Than An Inspired Design (Journal Of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, 21:342-349) May 2026 [3]
  16. Nam Cao – A Full Meal (link) May 2026 [3]
  17. Homer – The Odyssey (Penguin) Feb→Apr 2026
  18. Paul Valéry – Monsieur Teste (New York Review Books) Feb 2026
  19. Michael Salerno (ed.) – Kiddiepunk Collected 2011-2015 (Kiddiepunk) Feb 2026 [7]
  20. Marguerite Duras – Practicalities (Collins) Dec 2025
  21. Nam Cao – Bright Moon & The Eyes (in: Light Out And Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930-1954, Northern Illinois University Press) Dec 2025
  22. Chiến Quốc Trương – Translating Chí Phèo: A Journey Through The World Of Literary Translations (link) Dec 2025 [3]
  23. Robert Bresson – Bresson On Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 (New York Review Books) Nov→Dec 2025
  24. William Shakespeare – King Lear (Penguin) Nov→Dec 2025
  25. J.M.G. Le Clézio – The Great Life (Chicago Review, 47(2): p. 13-38) Nov 2025 [3]
  26. Yuri Slezkine – The Jewish Century (Princeton) Oct→Nov 2025
  27. Nam Cao – Chí Phèo (link) Oct 2025 [3]
  28. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book (Macmillan) Sep→Oct 2025
  29. Caroline Fraser – Murderland (Fleet) Aug→Sep 2025
  30. Carson McCullers – Reflections In A Golden Eye (Houghton Mifflin) Aug 2025
  31. Nam Cao – Old Man Crane (link) Aug 2025 [3]
  32. Michael Tetley – Instinctive Sleeping And Resting Postures: An Anthropological And Zoological Approach To Treatment Of Low Back And Joint Paint (BMJ, 321: p. 1616-1618) Aug 2025 [3]
  33. Thomas Moore – We’ll Never Be Fragile Again (Amphetamine Sulphate) Aug 2025
  34. Adolf von Harnack – Marcion: The Gospel Of The Alien God (The Labyrinth Press) Jun→Jul 2025
  35. Larry Clark – Return (Stanley/Barker) Jun 2025
  36. Yukio Mishima – Confessions Of A Mask (Peter Owen) Jun 2025
  37. Robert Frank – The Americans (Steidl) Jun 2025
  38. The Upanishads (Penguin) May→Jun 2025
  39. Robert A. Monroe – Journeys Out Of The Body (Doubleday) May 2025
  40. Nguyễn Huy Thiệp – The General Retires, Without A King & Life’s So Fun (in: Crossing The River, Curbstone Books) May 2025
  41. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Crime And Punishment (Penguin) Mar→May 2025
  42. Joachim Jeremias – Rediscovering The Parables (SCM) Feb→Mar 2025
  43. Thomas Moore – I Ruined Your Life (Kiddiepunk) Mar 2025
  44. Giorgio Bonsanti – Caravaggio (Scala) Feb 2025
  45. Michel de Montaigne – The Complete Essays (Penguin) Mar 2024→Feb 2025
  46. New Juche – Water Margin (Gallows Fruit) Feb 2025
  47. Peter Sotos – Kee MacFarlane (Nine-Banded Books) Jan 2025 [6]
  48. Peter Trawny – Freedom To Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy (Polity) Dec 2024
  49. Enzo Carli – Italian Primitives (Abrams) Dec 2024
  50. Benedict Anderson – The Fate Of Rural Hell (Seagull Books) Nov 2024
  51. Raymond Roussel – New Impressions Of Africa (Princeton University Press) Oct 2024
  52. Dick Roughsey – The Giant Devil-Dingo (Macmillan) Oct 2024
  53. Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey – The Quinkins (Collins) Oct 2024
  54. Thomas Moore – Hospital (Broken Blood Press) Oct 2024
  55. Georges Bataille – Story Of The Eye (Penguin) Sep 2024
  56. Ila Pop & Sailor Stephens – Venomous Feathers Split #2: The Telephone Diaries / Love Tap (Venomous Feathers) Sep 2024
  57. Dennis Cooper – Flunker (Amphetamine Sulphate) Jul→Aug 2024
  58. Percy Trezise & Dick Roughsey – Turramulli The Giant Quinkin (Gareth Stevens Publishing) Aug 2024
  59. Tohby Riddle – Yahoo Creek: An Australian Mystery (Allen & Unwin) Jul 2024
  60. Archie Fitzgerald & Joshua Mackie – Venomous Feathers Split #3: While You Were Sleeping… / Devotee Of Love (Venomous Feathers) Jul 2024
  61. Jim Schutze – Bully: A True Story Of High School Revenge (Umbrella Entertainment) Jun→Jul 2024 [5]
  62. Curzio Malaparte – The Skin (New York Review Books) Mar→Jun 2024
  63. André de Troyer & Marc Estenne – Functional Anatomy Of The Respiratory Muscles (Clinics In Chest Medicine, 9(2): p. 175-192) Jun 2024 [3]
  64. Fergus Nm (ed.) – A Thousand Years (Venomous Feathers) May 2024
  65. John Milton – L’Allegro, Il Penseroso And Minor Poems (The Peter Pauper Press) Feb→Mar 2024
  66. Martin Heidegger – The Self-Assertion Of The German University And The Recorate 1933/34: Facts And Thoughts (Review Of Metaphysics, 38(3): p. 467-502) Feb→Mar 2024 [3]
  67. Charles Bukowski – Essential Bukowski: Poetry (Ecco) Jan→Feb 2024
  68. Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley & Christopher Gilbert – 10: Self-Help Approaches (in Multidisciplinary Approaches To Breathing Pattern Disorders, Churchill Livingstone) Feb 2024 [3]
  69. J.G. Ballard – The Voices Of Time (in: The Inner Landscape, Allison & Busby) Feb 2024
  70. William Shakespeare – The Tempest (Penguin) Feb 2024
  71. Martin Heidegger – “Only A God Can Save Us”: The Spiegel Interview (1966) (in Heidegger: The Man And The Thinker, Transaction Publishers) Feb 2024 [3]
  72. Leon Chaitow, Dinah Bradley & Christopher Gilbert – 9: Other Breathing Issues (in Multidisciplinary Approaches To Breathing Pattern Disorders, Churchill Livingstone) Jan 2024 [3]
  73. Fergus Nm (ed.) – Venomous Feathers, V.F. 01 (Venomous Feathers) Jan 2024
  74. Henry James – The Turn Of The Screw (Penguin) Dec 2023
  75. Bud Lee – The War Is Here (ZE Books) Dec 2023
  76. Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra (Notting Hill Editions) Aug→Dec 2023 [4]
  77. New Juche – Heat Death, 1 (Gallows Fruit) Dec 2023
  78. Martin Heidegger – Art And Space (Man And World, 6(1): p. 3-8) Nov 2023 [3]
  79. Yoram Hazony – The Virtue Of Nationalism (Basic Books) Aug 2023
  80. The First Book & Second Book Of Maccabees (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Jul→Aug 2023
  81. H.F. Harlow, M.K. Harlow & S.J. Suomi – From Thought To Therapy: Lessons From A Primate Laboratory (American Scientist, 59: p. 538-549) Jun 2023 [3]
  82. Thomas Moore – When People Die (Kiddiepunk) Jun 2023
  83. Peter Sotos & Lionel Maunz – Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos (Amphetamine Sulphate & Nine-Banded Books) May→Jun 2023
  84. The Pastoral Epistles (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) May 2023
  85. Yukio Mishima – Acts Of Worship (Kodansha) Apr→May 2023
  86. Walt Whitman – Leaves Of Grass (Penguin) Apr 2023
  87. The Epistles Of John (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Apr 2023
  88. L.Ron Hubbard – Fear (New Era Publications) Mar 2023
  89. Johannes Weiss – Jesus’ Proclamation Of The Kingdom Of God (SCM) Mar 2023
  90. Thomas Moore – Skeleton Costumes (Kiddiepunk) Mar 2023
  91. Régine Deforges – Confessions Of O (Viking Books) Mar 2023
  92. Fernando Pessoa – A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe (Penguin) Sep 2022→Feb 2023
  93. Marguerite Duras – The Lover (Flamingo) Feb 2023
  94. J.G. Ballard – The Disaster Area (Panther) Dec 2022→Feb 2023
  95. Saint Augustine – Confessions (Penguin, trans. Wills) Nov→Dec 2022
  96. Erasmus / Otto Dix – Bellum (Imprint Society) Oct→Nov 2022
  97. Daniel (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Sep 2022
  98. Daniel (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Sep 2022
  99. William Shakespeare – The Sonnets (Penguin) Jun→Sep 2022
  100. J.G. Ballard – Low-Flying Aircraft (Panther) Aug→Sep 2022
  101. Edward Hussey – The Presocratics (Duckworth) Jul→Aug 2022
  102. Jared Taylor – If We Do Nothing (New Century Books) Jun 2022
  103. Fernando Pessoa – The Book Of Disquiet (Penguin) Feb 2021→Jun 2022
  104. The Gospel According To Saint Luke & The Acts Of The Apostles (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) May→Jun 2022
  105. Adolf Harnack – What Is Christianity? (Harper) May 2022
  106. Darian Leader – The New Black (Hamish Hamilton) Apr→May 2022
  107. James Dickey – Deliverance (Hamish Hamilton) Apr 2022
  108. Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (R. Alter’s HB; Norton) Apr 2022
  109. Ecclesiastes (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Apr 2022
  110. Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim (Collins) Feb→Apr 2022
  111. gea* – memoria foto graphic (Editions Unknown) Feb 2022
  112. The Letter To The Hebrews (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Feb 2022
  113. Rachel Kushner – The Hard Crowd (Jonathan Cape) Feb 2022
  114. Raymond Roussel – The Alley Of Fireflies And Other Stories (The Song Cave) Jan 2022
  115. Stevan Davies – The Gospel Of Thomas (Shambhala Library) Jan 2022
  116. R. Crumb (illus.) – The Book Of Genesis (Jonathan Cape) Nov→Dec 2021
  117. Steve Finbow (ed.) – Anthology (Infinity Land Press) Nov 2021
  118. Genesis (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Oct→Nov 2021
  119. C.H. Dodd – The Founder Of Christianity (Collins) Oct 2021
  120. New Juche – Mountainhead (Nine-Banded Books) Sep→Oct 2021
  121. Lore Segal & Maurice Sendak – The Juniper Tree And Other Tales From Grimm, Volume II (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) Sep 2021
  122. Brian Evenson – The Glassy, Burning Floor Of Hell (Coffee House Press) Aug→Sep 2021
  123. The Gospels According To Saints Matthew, Mark & John (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Aug 2021
  124. New Juche – The Worm (Infinity Land Press) Jul 2021
  125. Denton Welch – A Voice Through A Cloud (Readers Union) Jul 2021
  126. Apostolikon & The Gospel According To Saint Luke (JB; Darton, Longman & Todd) Jun→Jul 2021 [2]
  127. Ryszard Legutko – The Demon In Democracy (Encounter Books) May 2021
  128. Evan S. Connell, Jr. – The Connoisseur (Knopf) May 2021
  129. Eric Hoffer – The True Believer (Time-Life Books) Apr→May 2021
  130. Lore Segal & Maurice Sendak – The Juniper Tree And Other Tales From Grimm, Volume I (Farrar, Straus And Giroux) Apr 2021
  131. Ted Hughes – Crow (Faber And Faber) Mar→Apr 2021
  132. Yukio Mishima – On Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic And Modern Japan (Penguin) Mar 2021
  133. Yukio Mishima – Death In Midsummer (New Directions) Feb→Mar 2021
  134. Yukio Mishima – The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion (Tuttle) Dec 2020→Feb 2021
  135. Charlotte Yonge – The Little Duke (Oxford University Press) Nov 2020
  136. Yukio Mishima – The Death Of A Man / Otoko No Shi (Rizzoli) Oct 2020
  137. George Orwell – Burmese Days (Penguin) Sep→Oct 2020
  138. Michel Houellebecq – In The Presence Of Schopenhauer (Polity) Sep 2020
  139. William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White – The Elements Of Style (Allyn & Bacon) Jun→Jul 2020
  140. H.P. Lovecraft – The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales (Barnes & Noble) May→Sep 2020 [1]
  141. Thomas Nashe – The Unfortunate Traveller: Or, The Life Of Jack Wilton (John Lehmann) Apr→May 2020
  142. John Cowper Powys – Wolf Solent (Penguin) Feb→Apr 2020
  143. Michel Houellebecq – H.P. Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life (Cernunnos) Feb 2020
  144. New Juche – The Devils (Amphetamine Sulphate) Jan→Feb 2020

1. Read only the eight “great texts” identified by M. Houellebecq in his H.P. Lovecraft essay.
2. Apostolikon are the 10 Pauline epistles in Marcion’s canon: link.
3. My personal photocopy, printed scan, or other printout.
4. Read this great—yet flawed—translation twice, primarily to correct all the typographical errors, but also for enjoyment.
5. Hardback included with the Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray of Bully.
6. Including the accompanying note, Places, by Chip Smith.
7. Skipped Ken Baumann’s short story.