For 2023 no set goal, except reading a lot, of course. List in somewhat chronological order (multiple titles by same author tend to be grouped together even if not necessarily read at same time)
Paul D'Anieri - Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
Eudora Welty - Stories, Essays & Memoir (Library of America series)
Eudora Welty - Complete Novels (Library of America series)
Serhiy Zhadan - Depeche Mode
Serhiy Zhadan - Voroshilovgrad
Serhiy Zhadan - The Orphanage
Erika Fatland - The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia,
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland ... Finland, Norway,
and the Northeast Passage
Olga Onuch - The Zelensky Effect (UK version)
Julia Mendel - The Fight of Our Lives: My Time With Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for
Democracy and What It Means for the World
Serhiy Zhadan - Mesopotamia
Serhiy Zhadan - What We Live For, What We Die For: Selected Poems
Robert Hardman - Queen of Our Times: the Life of Elizabeth II (UK version; but not Commemorative
Edition)
Robert Hardman - Queen of the World
Angela Kelly - The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe (Platinum
Jubilee Edition)
Oksana Zabuzhko - Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
Oksana Zabuzhko - Museum of Abandoned Secrets
Oksana Zabuzhko - Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
Ross Macdonald - Four Novels of the 1950s (Library of America series)
Ross Macdonald - Three Novels of the Early 1960s (Library of America series)
Ross Macdonald - Four Later Novels (Library of America series)
Simon Sebag Montefiore - The World (UK version)
Ivan L. Rudnytsky - Essays in Modern Ukrainian History
Aynne Kokas - Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
Tom Bullough - Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Serhii Plokhy - The Russo-Ukrainian War: the Return of History
Karl Schlögel - The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Michael North - The Baltic: a History
Frances Yates - The Art of Memory
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe - The Baltic Story: a Thousand Year History of Its Lands, Sea & Peoples
Max Egremont - The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
Michael Pye - The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea & the Transformation
of Europe
Max Egremont - Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Norman Davies - God's Playground: A History of Poland. Volume I: The Origins to 1795
Norman Davies - God's Playground: A History of Poland. Volume II: 1795 to Present
Norman Davies - Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise & Fall Of States And Nations
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies
Hilary Mantel - The Mirror & the Light
Darth Putin KGB - How to Tankie: the Anti-Imperialist's Guide to the Modern World
Jerzy Lukowski & Hubert Zawadzki - A Concise History of Poland 3rd ed. (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
David Kirby - A Concise History of Finland (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Andrejs Plaken - A Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge Concise Histories)
Bruno Schulz - Collected Stories (trans. Madeline G. Levine)
Tom Bullough - Addlands: a Novel
Andres Kasekamp - A History of the Baltic States (2nd edition)
Henrik Meinander - A History of Finland
Volodymyr Rafeyenko - The Length of Days: an Urban Ballad
Jacob Mikanowski - Goodbye, Eastern Europe: an Intimate History of a Divided Land
Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes - The Light That Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight
for Democracy
Paul Kingsnorth - The Wake (The Buccmaster Trilogy)
Paul Kingsnorth - The Beast (The Buccmaster Trilogy)
Paul Kingsnorth - Alexandria (The Buccmaster Trilogy)
Finland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart)
Estonia: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart)
Lithuania: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart)
Poland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart)
Paul Kingsnorth - Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist & Other Essays
Andrey Kurkov - Grey Bees
Stanislav Aseyev - In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas
Stanislav Aseyev - The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Mikhail Bulgakov - White Guard
Matt Bondurant - The Wettest County in the World
Victor Pelevin - The Life of Insects: a Novel
Vladimir Sorokin - Day of the Oprochnik: A Novel (ebook)
K. J. Parker - The Two of Swords Vol. 1 (ebook)
K. J. Parker - The Two of Swords Vol. 2 (ebook)
K. J. Parker - The Two of Swords Vol. 3 (ebook)
Stephen King - If It Bleeds: New Fiction (ebook)
K. J. Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
K. J. Parker - How to Rule an Empire & Get Away With It
K. J. Parker - A Practical Guide to Conquering the World
Peter Ackroyd - Foundation: the History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
Peter Ackroyd - Tudors: the History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
Peter Ackroyd - Rebellion: the History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution
Peter Ackroyd - Revolution: the History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the
Battle of Waterloo
Peter Ackroyd - Dominion: the History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee
Peter Ackroyd - Innovation: the History of England Volume VI
Niall Griffiths - Broken Ghosts
Peter Ackroyd - Mr Cadmus [terrible; imo Ackroyd hasn't written decent fiction for years; this
might be the worst of the lot]
Yuri Andrukhovych - The Moscoviad (trans. Vitaly Chernetsky)
Niall Griffiths - Sheepshagger
Oleg Sentsov - Life Went On Anyway: Stories (trans. Uilleam Blacker)
General David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts - Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Martyn Rady - The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
Gregor von Rezzori - The Snows of Yesteryear (trans. H.F. Broch de Rotherman)
Pieter M. Judson - The Habsburg Empire: A New History
Bohumil Hrabal - I Served the King of England (trans. Paul Wilson)
Zsuzsa Sllyem - It's Raining in Moscow (trans. Erika Mihálycsa with Peter Sherwood)
Ivan Olbracht - The Sorrowful Eyes of Hannah Karajich (trans. Iris Urwin Letitová)
Herta Müller - Nadirs (Niederungen) (trans. Sieglinde Lug)
Tony Millionaire - Little Maakies on the Prairie (comic strip compilation)
Tony Millionaire - Green Eggs and Maakies (comic strip compilation)
Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories (ebook)
Robert Galbraith - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike Book 2) (ebook)
Robert Galbraith - Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike Book 3) (ebook)
Robert Galbraith - Lethal White (Cormoran Strike Book 4) (ebook)
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. Michael Henry Heim)
Tony Millionaire - Maakies With The Wrinkled Knees (comic strip compilation)
Angus Robertson - The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
Martyn Rady - The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
2022 list
2024 list