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2026

• the maniac by benjamin labatut
• perhaps the stars (terra ignota #4) by ada palmer
• the will to battle (terra ignota #3) by ada palmer
• seven surrenders (terra ignota #2) by ada palmer
• too like the lightning (terra ignota #1) by ada palmer
• no exit by jean-paul sartre
• chess story by stefan zweig
• i am a strange loop by douglas r. hofstadter
• 17776 by jon bois
• the andromeda strain by michael crichton

2025

• play it as it lays by joan didion
• no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood
• there is no antimemetics division by qntm
• i have no mouth & i must scream by harlan ellison
• ishmael by daniel quinn
• all systems red by martha wells
• i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman
• several people are typing by calvin kasulke
• severance by ling ma
• the blind owl by sadegh hedayat

2024

• roadside picnic by arkady and boris strugatsky
• i’m starting to worry about this black box of doom by jason pargin
• we spread by iain reid
• house of leaves by mark z. danielewski
• the lathe of heaven by ursula k. le guin
• the dispossessed by ursula k. le guin
• what the buddha taught by walpola rahula
• letters to milena by franz kafka
• the employees by olga ravn
• nails and eyes by kaori fujino
• dune messiah by frank herbert
• neuromancer by william gibson
• perfume: the story of a murderer by patrick süskind
• between two fires by christopher buehlman
• the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin

2023

• nip the buds, shoot the kids by kenzaburō ōe
• microserfs by douglas coupland
• slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut jr.
• a wild sheep chase by haruki murakami
• death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh
• when we cease to understand the world by benjamín labatut
• killing yourself to live: 85% of a true story by chuck klosterman
• the myth of sisyphus by albert camus
• livewired: the inside story of the ever-changing brain by david eagleman
• homesick for another world by ottessa moshfegh
• lunar park by bret easton ellis
• cat’s cradle by kurt vonnegut jr.
• remembrance of earth’s past trilogy by cixin liu

2021

• the death of ivan ilych by leo tolstoy
• i’m thinking of ending things by iain reid
• my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh
• animal farm by george orwell
• the metamorphosis by franz kafka
• the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck
• the stranger by albert camus
• dune by frank herbert
• annihilation by jeff vandermeer
• a clockwork orange by anthony burgess
• norwegian wood by haruki murakami
• no longer human by osamu dazai
• invisible man by ralph ellison
• night by elie wiesel
• as i lay dying by william faulkner
• the handmaid’s tale by margaret atwood
• heart of darkness by joseph conrad
• no longer human by junji ito
• lord of the flies by william golding
• the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger
• to kill a mockingbird by harper lee
• the road by cormac mccarthy