Reading
Books I liked.
Butcher's Crossing 1960
A young Harvard dropout joins a buffalo hunting expedition into the Colorado wilderness.
Under the Glacier 1968
A young emissary is sent to investigate a pastor who has stopped performing his duties in a remote Icelandic village.
There Is No Antimemetics Division 2020
A division that fights things you can't remember.
Augustus 1972
The life of Rome's first emperor told through letters, memoirs, and documents.
Vol de Nuit 1931
Night mail flights over the Andes.
Over the Edge of the World 2003
Magellan's attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Mutiny, starvation, uncharted seas. Only eighteen of the original 260 men made it back.
Empire of Blue Water 2007
Captain Henry Morgan and his pirate army's reign over the Caribbean.
Heart of Darkness 1899
A steamboat captain travels up the Congo River to retrieve a man named Kurtz.
Death in Midsummer 1966
Ten stories of aesthetics, violence, and the rituals of beauty and death.
The Heart of the Matter 1948
A police officer in colonial West Africa caught between duty, faith, and an impossible situation.
The Trial 1925
A man is arrested one morning. The charge is never revealed.
Lord of the Flies 1954
Schoolboys stranded on a deserted island attempt to govern themselves.
The Old Man and the Sea 1952
An aging Cuban fisherman hooks a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.
The Pearl 1947
A poor diver discovers an enormous pearl and dreams of a better life.
The Lost World 1912
An expedition to a South American plateau discovers a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Brave New World 1932
A future where humans are engineered for contentment, conditioned from birth to accept their place.
Blindness 1995
A city is struck by an epidemic of white blindness. As the afflicted are quarantined, society unravels. One woman, inexplicably, can still see.
Tales of the Unexpected 1979
Short stories with twist endings. Dahl's adult fiction.
The New York Trilogy 1987
Three interlocking detective stories where the investigations turn inward.
Mahlangeni 1994
A game ranger's wife recounts two decades living in Kruger National Park. Lions at the door, orphaned animals raised by hand.