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 Brothers (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.)
Eric D. Weitz - Weimar Germany: Promise & Tragedy
Frank McDonough - The Weimar Years: Rise & Fall 1918-1933
Don Lago - Grand Canyon: a History of a Natural Wonder & National Park
Carol Hill, Gregg Davidson, Tim Helble & Wayne Ranney, editors - The Grand
Canyon: Monument to an Ancient Earth
Stephen Hirst - I am the Grand Canyon: the Story of the Havasupai People
Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin (ebook)
Andrey Kurkov - Penguin Lost (ebook)
Andrey Kurkov - A Matter of Death and Life (ebook)
Andrey Kurkov - The Gardener from Ochakov (ebook)
Frank McDonough - The Hitler Years Vol 1 1933-1939
Frank McDonough - The Hitler Years Vol 2 1940-1945
Brian Jacques - Redwall (Redwall 1)
Brian Jacques - Mossflower (Redwall 2)
Brian Jacques - Mattimeo (Redwall 3)
Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way (In Search of Lost Time vol 3) (trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Prit Buttar - Between Giants: the Battle for the Baltics in WWII
Charles Clarke, ed. - Understanding the Baltics: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania since 1991
Rick Atkinson - The Army at Dawn: the War in North Africa 1942-1943 (Liberation Trilogy 1)
Rick Atkinson - The Day of Battle: the War in Sicily & Italy 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy 2)
Rick Atkinson - The Guns at Last Light: the War in Western Europe 1944-1945 (Liberation Trilogy 3)
Suetonius - The Lives of the Caesars (trans. Tom Holland)
Serhii Plotkhy - The Last Empire: the Final Days of the Soviet Union
Vladislav M. Zubok - Collapse: the Fall of the Soviet Union
Eugene Finkel - Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Marcel Proust - Sodom & Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time vol 4) (trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Richard Overy - Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow
S.M. Plokhy - Yalta: the Price of Peace
Serhy Yekelchyk - Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd ed.)
Paul Veyne (ed.) - A History of Private Life: I. From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Taras Kuzio - Putin's War against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism & Crime
Simon Price & Peter Thonemann - The Birth of Classical Europe: a History from Troy to Augustine
Mikhail Zygar - War and Punishment - Putin, Zelensky, & the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Maria Popova & Oxana Shevel - Russia & Ukraine: Entangled Histories Diverging States
Franziska Exeler - Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation & It's Aftermath in Soviet Belarus
Herodotus - The Landmark Herodotus (ed. Robert B Strassler; trans. Andrea L. Purvis)
Paul Kriwaczek - Babylon: Mesopotamia & the Birth of Civilization
Zygmunt Bauman - Modernity & the Holocaust
Gene Wolfe - Storeys from the Old Hotel
Eckhart Frahm - Assyria: the Rise of Fall of the World's First Empire
Lloyd LLewellyn-Jones - Persians: the Age of the Great Kings
Gene Wolfe - The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
Marcel Proust - The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time vol 5) (trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Marcel Proust - Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time vol 6) (trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff
& Terence Kilmartin; rev. D.J. Enright)
Marc Van De Mieroop (ed.) - A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000-323 B.C., 4th ed.
Gene Wolfe - The Wizard Knight: comprising The Knight & The Wizard
Gene Wolfe - Peace
David Chaffetz - Raiders, Rulers, and Traders; the horse and the rise of empires
Gene Wolfe - Free live free
Gene Wolfe - There are doors
Gene Wolfe - Pandora by Holly Hollander
Gene Wolfe - The Sorcerer's House
Gene Wolfe - An Evil Guest
Gene Wolfe - Home Fires
I.L. Finkel & M.J. Seymour (eds.) - Babylon
Gene Wolfe - The Land Across
Gene Wolfe - Castleview
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - A History of Babylon 2200BC-AD75
Gene Wolfe - A Borrowed Man
Gene Wolfe - Interlibrary Loan
Gene Wolfe - Pirate Freedom
Gene Wolfe - The Devil in a Forest
Gene Wolfe - Shadow & Claw (Book of the New Sun)
Gene Wolfe - Sword & Citadel (Book of the New Sun)
Gwendolyn Leick (ed.) - The Babylonian World
Gene Wolfe - Starwater Strains: New Science Fiction Stories
Gene Wolfe - Litany of the Long Sun: First Half of The Book of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe - Epiphany of the Long Sun: Second Half of The Book of the Long Sun
Gene Wolfe - On Blue's Waters (Book of the Short Sun 01)
Gene Wolfe - In Green's Jungles (Book of the Short Sun 02)
Gene Wolfe - Return to the Whorl (Book of the Short Sun 03)
R. Scott Bakker - The Darkness that Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing 01)
R. Scott Bakker - The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing 02)
R. Scott Bakker - The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing 03)
Paul Collins - Assyrian Palace Sculpture
C.S. Lewis - The Space Trilogy (3 vols.)
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia (7 vols.)
George MacDonald - The Stories of George MacDonald (4 vols.)
Gareth Bereton (ed.) -I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria (TheBP exhibition
British Museum)
George MacDonald - The Gifts of the Child Christ: fairy tales and stories for the childlike
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Bill Bryson - In a sunburned country
The book of Prague: a city in short fiction
Prague: a traveler's literary companion
László Krasznahorkai - Baron Wenckheim's homecoming (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow ticket
Reiner Stach - Kafka: the early years (tr. Shelley Frisch)
Michael Ajvaz - The other city (tr. Gerald Turner)
Reiner Stach - Kafka: the decisive years (tr. Shelley Frisch)
Reiner Stach - Kafka: the early years (tr. Shelley Frisch)
Michael Ajvaz - Journey to the South (tr. Andrew Oakland)
Reiner Stach - Kafka: the years of insight (tr. Shelley Frisch)
Karolina Watroba - Metamorphoses: in search of Franz Kafka
Michael Ajvaz - Empty Streets (tr. Andrew Oakland)
David Černý: 2017, the book
The Sumerian World - Harriet Crawford, ed.
Matthew Longo - The Picnic: an escape to freedom & the collapse of the Iron Curtain
Amanda H. Podany - Weavers, scribes & Kings: a new history of the ancient Near East
Michael Ajvaz - The Golden Age (tr. Andrew Oakland)
Maria Brosius - The Persians
Orhan Pamuk - Nights of Plague (tr. Ekin Oklap)
Maria Brosius (ed.) - A history of Ancient Persia
Karl Ove Knausgaard - The Morning Star (tr. Martin Aitken)
Karl Ove Knausgaard - The Wolves of Eternity (tr. Martin Aitken)
Jan H. Vitvar - David Černý: 50 licks
Karl Ove Knausgaard - The Third Realm (tr. Martin Aitken)
Shadows of Carcosa; Tales of cosmic horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe and
other masters of the weird
Prague Noir
Jon Fosse - Septology (tr. Damion Searls)
György Dragomán - The Bone Fire (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
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Gregor von Rezzori - An ermine in Czernopol (tr. Philip Boehm)
Friedich Torberg _ Tane Jolesch of the Decline of the West in anecdotes (tr.Maria Poglitsch Bauer)
Gregor von Rezzori - Memoirs of an anti-Semite (tr. Joachim Neugroschel & Gregor von Rezzori)
Herta Müller - Nadirs (tr. Sieglinde Lug)
Herta Müller - The Fox was ever the hunter (tr. Philip Boehm)
Herta Müller - The Passport (tr. Martin Chalmers)
Herta Müller - The Land of Green Plums (tr. Michael Hoffmann)
Herta Müller - The Hunger Angel (tr. Philip Boehm)
Herta Müller - The Appointment (tr. Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm)
György Dragomán - The White King (tr. Luca Karafiáth)
Attila Veres - The Black Maybe: liminal tales (tr. Paul Olchváry)
Gábor Schein - The Book of Mordechai (tr. Adam Z. Levy) & Lazarus (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
Good-bye, Samizdat: Twenty years of Czechoslovak underground writing
Szilárd Borhély - The Dispossessed (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
Szilárd Borhély - Kafka's Son (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
Gábor Schein - Autobiographies of an angel (tr. Ottilie Mulzet)
Pierre Briant - From Cyrus to Alexander: a history of the Persian Empire
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Gábor Vida - Story of a stammer (tr. Jozefina Komporaly)
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan - Our dear friends in Moscow: the inside story of a broken generation
Martin Machovec - Writing underground: reflections on samizdat literature in totalitarian Czechoslovakia
Mikhail Zygar - The dark side of the earth: Russia's short-lived victory over totalitarianism
John Boardman - Persia and the West
Catherine Belton - Putin's People
Andrea Tompa - Omerta: a book of silences (tr. Bernard Adams)
Philip Short - Putin
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Autobiography of a corpse (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - The return of Munchausen (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Unwitting street (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Memories of the future (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit
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