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fiction

classics
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Beowulf - unknown, tr. Seamus Heaney (+ fantasy)
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Jessie Coulson
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin, tr. James E. Falen (+ poetry)
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Collected Tales - Nikolai Gogol, tr. Pevear and Volokhonsky (+ anthology)

contemporary
Brotherhood - Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, tr. Alexia Trigo
Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar
Signs Preceding the End of the World - Yuri Herrera, tr. Lisa Dillman (+ weird) (in progress)
The Master and Margarita - Nikolai Bulgakov, tr. Pevear and Volokhonsky (+ weird)

mystery
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (+ weird)
The Likeness - Tana French (+ thriller)
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
The Witch Elm - Tana French (+ suspense)

historical fiction
These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong (+ crime, fantasy)
When the Angels Left the Old Country - Sacha Lamb (+ fantasy)

fantasy & sci-fi
~~All Systems Red - Martha Wells~~ (reread)
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Memento Mori - Shariann Lewitt
Network Effect - Martha Wells
The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein

theater

Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmund Rostand, tr. ?
The Tempest - William Shakespeare

poetry

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith
Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene - Adonis, tr. Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Ivan Eubanks

non-fiction

biographies, memoirs & journals
In My Father's Court - Isaac Bashevis Singer, tr. various (+ anthology)
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi, tr. undecided (+ anthology)
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard

history
Empire of Sin - Gary Krist
Nothing Less Than War - Justus D. Doenecke
Sweet Land of Liberty - Rossi Anastopoulo (in progress)
The King of Skid Row - James Eli Shiffer (in progress)

science
Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith

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