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<p>Here is a list of some books I've read recently. A star indicates a rereading, and the highlighted row indicates that year's favourite.</p>
<h2>2025</h2>
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<li>Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li>The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li>Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li>Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe</li>
<li>Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih</li>
<li>Beloved, Toni Morrison</li>
<li>The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini</li>
<li>On Beauty, Zadie Smith</li>
<li>Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes, Jacqueline Harpman</li>
<li>The Crying of Lot 49*, Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li>Dubliners, James Joyce</li>
<li class="highlight">Vineland, Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li>Crime and Punishment*, Fyodor Dostoevsky</li>
<li>Candide, Voltaire</li>
<li>V., Thomas Pynchon</li>
<li>A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess</li>
<li>Ulysses, James Joyce</li>
<li>Hamlet*, William Shakespeare</li>
<li>The Fermented Man, Derek Dellinger</li>
<li>Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>The Road, Cormac McCarthy</li>
<li>The Old Man and the Sea*, Ernest Hemingway</li>
<li>A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman</li>
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<h2>2024</h2>
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<li>Going Postal, Terry Pratchett - 4/5</li>
<li>Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 3/5</li>
<li>The Vegetarian, Han Kang - 3/5</li>
<li>Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad - 1/5</li>
<li>Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - 4/5</li>
<li>Inherent Vice, Thomas Pynchon - 4/5</li>
<li>The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5</li>
<li class="highlight">Devils, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5</li>
<li>Orlando, Virginia Woolf - 3/5</li>
<li>It Ends with Us, Colleen Hoover - 2/5</li>
<li>Of Mice and Men*, John Steinbeck - 5/5</li>
<li>Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury - 3/5</li>
<li>East of Eden, John Steinbeck - 5/5</li>
<li>Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian - 2/5</li>
<li>The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon - 3/5</li>
<li>L'Étranger*, Albert Camus - 5/5</li>
<li>The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera - 4/5</li>
<li>The Karamazov Brothers, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5</li>
<li>The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5</li>
<li>White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5</li>
<li>Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/5</li>
<li>Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky - 5/5</li>
<li>The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin - 3/5</li>
<li>Father's Day, Richard Madeley - 2/5</li>
<li>Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse - 4/5</li>
<li>The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath - 5/5</li>
<li>Dune, Frank Herbert - 4/5</li>
<li>Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, Maurice Leblanc - 3/5</li>
<li>The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells - 3/5</li>
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<h2>2023</h2>
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<li>Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh - 2/5</li>
<li>Ticket No. 9672, Jules Verne - 4/5</li>
<li>The Call of the Wild, Jack London - 3/5</li>
<li>The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne - 3/5</li>
<li>Boy in Darkness, Mervyn Peake - 2/5</li>
<li>Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake - 2/5</li>
<li class="highlight">Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - 5/5</li>
<li>Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake - 4/5</li>
<li>Sourcery, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>Mort, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett</li>
<li>The Return of the King*, J.R.R. Tolkien</li>
<li>The Two Towers*, J.R.R. Tolkien</li>
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<h2>Other texts</h2>
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<li><a href="medea.html">Μήδεια</a>, Euripides</li>
<li><a href="bread.html">The Conquest of Bread</a>, Pyotr Kropotkin</li>
<li><a href="//theanarchistlibrary.org/">The Anarchist Library</a></li>
<li><a href="//gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a></li>
<li><a href="//standardebooks.org/">Standard Ebooks</a></li>
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