Thanks to government shutdown & a three-week vacation when I ended up staying at home, as well as reading more shorter books, managed to read a lot in 2025. 2026 more classical history/literature and other stuff, including in translation.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - The letter killers club (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Stravaging "strange" (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Anthony Kaldellis - The New Roman Empire: a history of Byzantium
Alfonz Bednár - The hours & the minutes (tr. David Short)
Anthony Kaldellis - A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities
Vladimir Sorokin - Their four hearts (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Blue lard (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Ice trilogy (tr. Jamey Gambrell)
Vladimir Sorokin - Day of the oprichnik (tr. Jamey Gambrell) (reread)
Vladimir Sorokin - The sugar Kremlin (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - The blizzard (tr. Jamey Gambrell)
Vladimir Sorokin - Telluria (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - The Queue (tr. Sally Laird)
Vladimir Sorokin - Dispatches from the District Committe (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Red pyramid: selected stories (tr. Max Lawton)
2025 list