Books

I want to become a better person, so I shall read.

Completed
– 1Q84, Haruki Murakami (November 2011-February 2012)
– The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon (February-May 2012)
– Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare (March 2013)
– A Quiet Life, Kenzaburo Oe (March-June 2013)
– Bringing Up Bébé, Pamela Druckman (May-July 2013)
– A Stitch in Time [Star Trek Deep Space 9], Andrew Robinson (October-November 2013)
– L’Amant, Marguerite Duras (December 2013)
– Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (December 2013-January 2014)
– City of Glass, Paul Auster (February 2014)
– Der Untergeher, Thomas Bernhard (February 2014)
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (February-March 2014)
– The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (January-April 2014)
– The Magician, W. Somerset Maugham (March-April 2014)
– Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, Italo Calvino (April-May 2014)
– Le città invisibili, Italo Calvino (May 2014)
– Changing, Liv Ullmann (May 2014)
– Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne (June 2014)
– Ehen in Philippsburg, Martin Walser (August 2014)
– El perseguidor, Julio Cortázar (August 2014)
– Lizard, Banana Yoshimoto (September 2014)
– Venus im Pelz, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (September 2014)
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (September-October 2014)
– The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon (August-October 2014)
– Hyperion, Dan Simmons (January-October 2014)
– R.U.R. and War with the Newts, Karel Capek (October-November 2014)
– Un amour de Swann, Marcel Proust (May-November 2014)
– The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (December 2014)
– Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (November 2014-February 2015)
– Noetic Trilogy, Karel Capek (December 2014-February 2015)
– Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, Peter Handke (March 2015)
– Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin (June 2015)
– Iphigenie auf Tauris, Johann von Goethe (June-August 2015)
– The life-changing magic of tidying up, Marie Kondo (August 2015)
– La strada di San Giovanni, Italo Calvino (September 2015)
– Egmont, Johann von Goethe (August-September 2015)
– Frauen um Arthur Schnitzler, Renate Wagner (September 2015)
– Il Barone Rampante (Children’s version), Italo Calvino (October 2015)
– St. Petersburg Stories and Poems, Alexander Pushkin (October 2015)
– The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (October-December 2015)
– The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (November-December 2015)
– Der Marquis von Keith, Frank Wedekind (October 2016)
– Death in Midsummer and Other Short Stories, Yukio Mishima (August 2015-December 2016)
– Hotel Savoy, Joseph Roth (September-December 2016)
– Aufzeichnungen eines Toten, Bulgakow (December 2016-January 2017)
– Epic of Gilgamesh, (March-April 2017)
– Krakatit, Karel Capek (March 2015-April 2017)
– From the New World, Yusuke Kishi (December 2012-June 2017)
– On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (September 2018)
– Hiob, Joseph Roth (March 2020)
– The Absolute at Large, Karel Capek (August 2020)

Reading
– Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (since October 2014)
– The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (since November 2014)
– Lotte in Weimar, Thomas Mann (since October 2015)
– Songlines, Bruce Chatwin (since June 2017)

Series
– ** Kino no Tabi series [2-10, 12], Keiichi Sigsawa (since January 2015)

Dropped
– The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
– Émile ou de l’éducation, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Unread Books I have
– Fritz Lang, Norbert Grob
– Lebensansichten des Katers Murr, E.T.A. Hoffmann
– Sämtliche Erzählungen, Nikolai Gogol
– ** La Peste, Albert Camus
– Heikle Erinnerungen, Italo Calvino
– Der Räuber, Robert Walser
– Aus einem Totenhaus, Fjodor Dostojewski
– Märchen, Karel Capek
– Geschichten aus der einen und der anderen Tasche, Karel Capek
– Liebeserklärungen, Martin Walser
– Das Dekameron, Boccaccio
– The Diary of Lady Murasaki
– Berliner Notizen, Cees Nooteboom
– Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser, Ernst Gombrich
– Billy Wilder, Hellmuth Karasek
– Momo, Michael Ende
– Eroberung des Nutzlosen, Werner Herzog
– Vater und Söhne, Iwan Turgenjew
– Stadt der Blinden, Jose Saramago
– Schule des Humors, Jaroslav Husek
– Das Duell, Anton Tschechow
– Die Unsterblichkeit, Milan Kundera
– Doktor Schiwago, Boris Pasternak
– Der Doppelgänger, Fjodor Dostojewski
– Reißt die Knospen ab, Kenzaburo Oe
– Buch der Chroniken, Antonio Lobo Antunes

Under consideration
– Something by Tom Sharpe
– We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

– The Ark Sakura, Kobo Abe

– The Wind Up Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
– Pirate Freedom, Gene Wolfe

– The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
– Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick
– The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
– Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
– Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami

– A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
– Amerika, Franz Kafka

Japanese books and reading material progress

– Bowring, Introduction to Modern Japanese (lesson 18/52)
– Japanese for Busy People III Workbook (lesson 1/20, 50%)
– Essential Kanji (30/2000)
– Japanese graded readers (level 2 volume 3 story 3, 5%)
– Mangajin (volume 1, 35%)