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)
12/20/2023
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – Nikolai Leskov novella (1865)
12/22/2023
Daisy Miller – novella by Henry James(1878)
12/26/2023
The Sealed Angel – Nikolai Leskov (1873)
12/28/2023
“Moral Fiction,” (The Atlantic) Mary Gordon
12/29/2023
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
12/31/2023
Eating with God – Stanley Gazemba
1/1/2024
To the electric city – Sergio Chejfec
“Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the problem of hard-to-read books” – Jonathan Franzen (2002)
1/3/2024
Cogwheels – Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1927)
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
1/4/2024
The Angel of Power 2 Wins – András Máthé (2006)
A solution to the Angel Problem – Oddvar Kloster
The angel problem – John Horton Conway
“At Sea” – Anton Chekhov (1883)
“A Nincompoop” – Anton Chekhov (1883)
“Surgery” – Anton Chekhov (1884)
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4/5/2024
I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid
4/7/2024
“The Hitchhiking Game” – Milan Kundera
Under the Skin – Michel Faber (2000)
4/8/2024
Dark Spring – Unica Zürn
4/9/2024
Imperial Subjects in the Soviet Union: M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Re-Thinking Freedom and Authoritarianism – Choi Chatterjee
4/10/2024
Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali – George Orwell
4/11/2024
“In the Cart” / “The Schoolmistress” – Anton Chekhov (1897)
4/13/2024
Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror)- Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont)
Poésies (I and II) – Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautréamont)
4/14/2024
The Sea – John Banville(2005)
4/15/2024
The Guest – Albert Camus
4/19/2024
“Vindicating Stalin: Responding to Lefebvre” – Curry Malott (2017)
4/20/2024
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
4/22/2024
Harold Bloom, The School of Resentment and Identity Politics
Cannon to the right of them – Herbert Schneider
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” – T.S. Eliot (1919)
“Who Cares if You Listen?” – Milton Babbitt (1948)
4/24/2028
“The Repugnant Conclusion,” by Elif Batuman (2022)
Thomas Bernhard – Ben Marcus
4/25/2024
Sure Thing – David Ives
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