Usual goal of reading a lot. Started to investigate Central/Eastern literature. Will continue that. Also continuing investigation of Central/Eastern European history, etc. Balkans and/or Central Asia might be next. Trying to limit "fun" reading (i.e. sci-fi, people like Stephen King, Robert Galbraith, etc.) to when I am on vacation. Did pretty well with this last year.
Konstantin Paustovsky - The Story of a Life (Books 1-3) (trans. Douglas Smith)
A. Wess Mitchell - The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
Antanas Škėma - White Shroud (trans. Karla Gruodis)
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė - Shadows on the Tundra (trans. Delija Valiukenas)
George Packer - The Unwinding
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė - Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (trans. Elizabeth Novickas)
Alexander Watson - Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Simon Shuster - The Showman: Inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader
of Volodymyr Zelensky
Alexander Watson - The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Jurgis Kunčinas - Tūla (trans. Elizabeth Novickas)
Bohumil Hrabal - All My Cats (trans. Paul Wilson)
Derek Sayer - The Coast of Bohemia: A Czech History
Bohumil Hrabal - Mr. Kafka and Other Tales From the Time of the Cult (trans. Paul Wilson)
Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude (trans. Michael Henry Heim)
Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains (trans. Edith Pargeter)
Jiří Gruša - The Questionnaire (trans. Peter Kussi)
Jáchym Topol - Angel Station (trans. Alex Zucker)
Patrik Ouřednik - Case Closed (trans. Alex Zucker)
Patrik Ouřednik - The Opportune Moment, 1855 (trans. Alex Zucker)
Peter Demetz - Prague in Black and Gold: the History of a City
Derek Sayer - Prague: Crossroads of Europe
Jaroslav Pánek, Oldřich Tůma, et alii. - A History of the Czech Lands (Second Edition)
Kevin McDermott - Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89: a Political and Social History
Mary Heimann - Czechoslovakia: the State That Failed
Franz Kafka - The Trial (trans. Mike Mitchell)
Angelo Maria Ripellino - Magic Prague (trans. David Newton Marinelli; edit. Michael Henry Heim)
Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk (trans. Cecil Parrott)
Franz Kafka - The Castle (trans. Anthea Bell)
Stephen King - Just After Sunset (ebook)
Stephen King - Night Shift (ebook)
Alastair Reynolds - Revenger (Revenger Universe 01)
Alastair Reynolds - Shadow Captain (Revenger Universe 02)
Alastair Reynolds - Bone Silence (Revenger Universe 03)
Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes (ebook)
Studs Terkel - "The Good War"
Jeffrey Barlough - Hooting Grange (Western Lights 11)
Alan Garner - Treacle Walker
D.J. Taylor - The Windsor Faction
Joanne McNeil - Wrong Way
The Handyman Method - Nick Cutter & Andrew F. Sullivan
Daniel O'Malley - Blitz (Checquy 3)
Christopher Miller - The War Came to Us: Life & Death in Ukraine
Yaroslav Trofimov - Our Enemies Will Vanish: the Russian Invasion & Ukraine's War of Independence
Andrey Kurkov - Diary of an Invasion
Rowan Phoenix - Bunnyes at War: an Illustrated Essay of Fur & Fury in the Rabbit Realms
Tim Judah - In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
Kathryn Hughes - Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World (UK edition)
Simon Reynolds - Futuromania: Electronic Dreams. Desiring Machines & Tomorrow's Music Today
Kevin Fedarko - A Walk in the Park: a True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Martin Sixsmith - Russia: a 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East
Orlando Figes - The Story of Russia
Adolphe de Custine - Letters from Russia (NYRB; 1843 translation, ed. & rev. Anka Muhlstein)
Laurence Sterne - The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford Classics ed.)
Matthew Green - Shadowlands - A Journey Through Lost Britain
Philipp Blom - The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
Philipp Blom - Fracture: Life & Culture in the West, 1918-1938
Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
Illia Ponomarenko - I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv
Serhiy Zhadan - Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches From the Ukrainian Front
Geoffrey Parker - Emperor: A New Life of Charles V
Geoffrey Parker - Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger - Maria Theresa: the Habsburg Empress in Her Time
Tim Blanning - Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Miklós Molnár - A Concise History of Hungary
Lászlo Krasznahorkai - The Melancholy of Resistance (trans. George Szirtes)
Bob Dent - Budapest: a Cultural History
Pál Engel - The Realm of Saint Stephen: a History of Medieval Hungary
Bryan Cartledge - The Will to Survive: a History of Hungary
Norman Stone - Hungary: a Short History
Brian McLean & Kester Eddy - Culture Smart: Hungary (2018 ed.)
John Lukacs - Budapest 1900: a Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture
Keith Hitchens - A Concise History of Romania
Lucian Boia - Romania
Debbie Stowe - Culture Smart: Romania (2017 ed.)
Lászlo Krasznahorkai - Satantango (trans. George Szirtes)
Bruce O'Neill - Underground: Dreams & Degradations in Bucharest
Lucian Boia - History & Myth in Romanian Consciousness
Paul Kenyon - Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania (ebook)
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Tom Gallagher - Modern Romania: the End of Communism, the Failure of Democratic Reform & the Theft
of a Nation
Tom Gallagher - Romania & the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong
Mircea Cărtărescu - Solenoid
Stephen King - You like It Darker (ebook)
Alastair Reynolds - Aurora Rising (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies 01) (ebook)
Timothy Ware - The Orthodox Church: an Introduction to Eastern Christianity
Miklós Bánffy - The Transylvanian Trilogy Volume I: They were Counted (trans. Patrick Thursfield &
Katalin Bánffy-Jelen)
Miklós Bánffy - The Transylvanian Trilogy Volume II: They were Found Wanting; They were Divided
(trans. Patrick Thursfield & Katalin Bánffy-Jelen)
Eve Tibbs - A Basic Guide to Orthodoxy
Frank Trentmann - Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942-2022
Harald Jänner - Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Katja Hoyer - Beyond the Wall: a History of East Germany
Lászlo Krasznahorkai - Herscht 07769: Florian Herscht's Bach Novel (trans. Ottille Mulzet)
John Baggley - Door of Perception: Icons and Their Spiritual Significance
Matthew the Poor - Guidelines for Prayer
Alastair Reynolds - Elysium Fire (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies 02) (ebook)
Alastair Reynolds - Machine Vendatta (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies 03) (ebook)
Alastair Reynolds - Eversion (ebook)
Elias Canetti - Auto-da-Fé (trans C.V. Wedgwood)
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