The usual, read as much as possible. "Literature" and non-fiction, especially history. Thanks.
2025:
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks (trans. Paul Woods)
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain (trans. Paul Woods)
Thomas Mann - Joseph & His Brother (trans. Paul Woods)
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus (trans. Paul Woods)
Christoper Clark - Iron Kingdom: the Rise & Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947
Dominic Sandbrook - Never Had It So Good: a History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
Marcel Proust - Swanns Way (In search of Lost Time vol 1) (trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff &
Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Dominic Sandbrook - White Heat: a History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties
Dominic Sandbrook - State of Emergency: the Way We Were: Britain 1970-1974
Dominic Sandbrook - Seasons in the Sun: the Battle for Britain 1974-1979
Dominic Sandbrook - Who Dare Wins: Britain 1979-1982
Alwyn Turner - Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s
Alwyn Turner - Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s
Alwyn Turner - A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s
Alwyn Turner - All in It Together: England in the Early 21st Century
Marcel Proust - Within a Budding Grove (In search of Lost Time vol 2) (trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Mike Rapport - City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque
Jim Malusa - Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
Mary McAuliffe - Dawn of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy,
Clemenceau, and Their Friends
Mary McAuliffe - Twilight of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Picasso, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie,
Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
Colin Fletcher - River: One man's journey down the Colorado, source to sea
Wayne Ranney - Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories & Mystery (2nd ed.)
2024 list