Aadi Arya Karthik was a voracious – fast and deep – reader since the time he started reading by himself. The last few years of his life he took it to a different level. That was what helped him become somebody whose peers described as the three best players in their lifetime. Here is his journal of all the books he read.
All the books* I have read
By Aadi Arya Karthik
(* Not all books. Everything but poetry)
11/7/2023
Agapē Agape is William Gaddis
“Stop Player. Joke No. 4” – a 1951 essay by William Gaddis
11/8/2023
A Reader’s Manifesto – a 2002 book by B. R. Myers
Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as we Know It – Ben Marcus
11/15/2023
“The Scent of Apples” (1900) – Ivan Bunin – barely a story, but more a series of childhood experiences, of sensory impressions.
“The Gentleman from San Francisco” – short story by Russian author Ivan Bunin (1915)
12/1/2023
“Beads and Money: Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power” – David Graeber (1996)
12/6/2023
The Confession – Anton Chekhov
He Understood! – Anton Chekhov (1883)
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller (1949)
12/8/2023
Inferno, I, 32″ – Jorge Luis Borges (1960)
Paradiso, XXXI, 108 – Jorge Luis Borges
Infante’s Inferno (originally La Habana para un infante difunto) – Guillermo Cabrera Infante
12/9/2023
The Lover – Marguerite Duras (1984)
The Hairy Ape – Eugene O’Neill (1922)
The Emperor Jones – Eugene O’Neill (1920)
12/14
Venus in Furs – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)
Aadi Arya Karthik 