Reading List 2025

The spike at 1960 is almost entirely due to a project of reading all of Philip K Dick's novels, while taking notes on his fictional slang.

There's a cluster around 430 BC for Aeschylus, Euripides, and Herodotus that I didn't include in the histogram.

Everything I read in 2025:

1982 Tove Jansson - Fair Play
1928 Lewis Spence - Mysteries of Celtic Britain
1949 George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-four
1896 H G Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau
1964 Colin Wilson - Rasputin
1939 Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage
1933 Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse The Mail Pilot
1973 Jacques Cousteau - Octopus and Squid
1961 Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
1959 Wallace West - The Bird of Time
1970 Jim Thornton - Design of a Computer
1862 Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo
1913 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Music-Hall Sidelights
1899 H G Wells - A Story of the Days to Come
1878 Shang Andrews - Cranky Ann, The Street-Walker
1726 Jonathan Swift - Gullivers Travels
1880 Ella Thayer - Wired Love
1949 James H. Schmitz - The Witches of Karres
1963 Hill and Thornley - Principia Discordia
1935 Don Marquis - archy does his part
1970 Robert Miall - UFO-1 Flesh Hunters
1967 Philip K Dick - Counter-Clock World
1966 Philip K Dick - Now Wait for Last Year
1838 Edgar Allan Poe - The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
1987 Honeywell - Multics System Administration Procedures
1901 L Frank Baum - The Master Key
1967 Philip K Dick - The Ganymede Takeover
2024 Dave Fischer - Long Black Curly Eyes
1973 Control Data - Kronos Reference Manual
1864 Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
1915 Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
1969 Philip K Dick - Ubik
431BC Euripides - Medea
1966 Philip K Dick - The Crack in Space
1919 Walter McCaleb - Busy The Life of an Ant
1919 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Mitsou
1915 L Frank Baum - The Scarecrow of Oz
1873 George M. Baker - The Boston Dip
1664 Moliere - Tartuffe
1920 Sax Rohmer - The Green Eyes of Bast
1955 Philip K Dick - Solar Lottery
1848 Eliza Jane Cate - Lights and Shadows of Factory Life
1956 Philip K Dick - The Man Who Japed
1907 Frank Hedges Butler - 5,000 Miles in a Balloon
1960 Philip K Dick - Vulcans Hammer
1759 Voltaire - Candide fr
1911 L Frank Baum - The Flying Girl
1953 Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
430BC Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound
1961 Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
1964 Philip K Dick - Martian Time-Slip
1939 Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope
1974 George Lucas - The Star Wars
1918 Sax Rohmer - Tales of Secret Egypt
1828 Eugene Vidocq - Memoirs of Detective Vidocq
1908 William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
1964 Philip K Dick - The Penultimate Truth
1913 Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger
1913 Roy Rockwood - Dave Dashaway the Young Aviator
1920 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Cheri
1964 Philip K Dick - The Simulacra
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Polar Treasure
1927 Don Marquis - archy and mehitabel
1921 Karel Capek - The Life of the Insects
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Lost Oasis
1974 Ralph Grishman - Assembly Language Programming CDC-6600
1904 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Barks and Purrs
1896 Alfred Jarry - Ubu Roi
1922 Don Marquis - The Revolt of the Oyster
1965 Philip K Dick - Dr Bloodmoney
1919 Sax Rohmer - The Golden Scorpion
1966 Philip K Dick - The Unteleported Man
1932 Olaf Stapledon - Last Men in London
1951 A E van Vogt - The Weapon Shops of Isher
1923 John Dos Passos - Streets of Night
1917 Walter Flavius McCaleb - Happy: The life of a bee
1907 William Hope Hodgson - The Boats of the Glen Carrig
1974 Philip K Dick - Flow My Tears The Policeman Said
1616 Miguel de Cervantes - The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Phantom City
1925 Thea von Harbou - Metropolis
1969 Philip K Dick - Galactic Pot-Healer
1920 L Frank Baum - Glinda of Oz
1898 Morgan Robertson - The Wreck of the Titan
1959 Pat Frank - Alas Babylon
1922 T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land
1916 Don Marquis - The Cruise of the Jasper B.
1596 Walter Raleigh - The Discovery of Guiana
1934 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Monsters
1894 Oscar Wilde - Salome
1877 Gustave Flaubert - Herodias
1931 Lord Dunsany - The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens
1957 Stefan Wul - Le Temple du Passe
545 Procopius of Caesarea - The Persian War
1970 Jerzy Kosinski - Being There
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Land of Terror
1975 Fidel Castro - First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba
1965 Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
1582 Anon - The Life of Long Meg of Westminster
1916 Don Marquis - Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
1927 Franklin W. Dixon - The Hardy Boys The Tower Treasure
1965 D T Niane - Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
1918 Sax Rohmer - Brood of the Witch-Queen
1933 George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
1985 Philip K Dick - Radio Free Albemuth
1918 Sliman Ben Ibrahim - The Life of Mohammad, the Prophet of Allah
1943 Leonora Carrington - Down Below
1985 Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - The Time Wanderers
810 Hisham ibn al-Kalbi - Book of Idols
430BC Herodotus - Histories vol 1 Clio
1981 Philip K Dick - VALIS
1921 Sax Rohmer - Bat Wing
1944 Par Lagerkvist - The Dwarf
1927 Edward Stratemeyer - The Hardy Boys The House on the Cliff
1932 Bertolt Brecht - Saint Joan of The Stockyards
430BC Herodotus - Histories vol 2 Euterpe
1908 Lord Dunsany - The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
1895 Frank Wedekind - Earth Spirit
1904 Frank Wedekind - Pandoras Box
1845 Asst - Mind Amongst the Spindles
1927 H P Lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Uknown Kadath
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage The Man of Bronze
1948 Aldous Huxley - Ape and Essence
1948 Ding Ling - The Sun Shines Over The Sanggan River
1821 Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
1938 John Campbell - The Brain Pirates
1918 Bertolt Brecht - Baal
1883 William Muir - Annals of the Early Caliphate
1972 Honeywell - GCOS Time-Sharing System
1933 Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage Pirate of the Pacific
1970 LLNL - Livermore Time-Sharing System
1973 Control Data - Kronos Reference Manual
1907 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette - Retreat From Love
1752 Voltaire - Micromegas
1932 Richard F. Mann - Hookers
1919 John Reed - Ten Days That Shook The World
1898 Alfred Jarry - Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll
1956 Philip K Dick - The World Jones Made
1964 Philip K Dick - The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
1886 Pierre Loti - An Iceland Fisherman
1964 Philip K Dick - Clans of The Alphane Moon
1874 Gustave Flaubert - The Temptation of St. Anthony
1984 Gualberto Alonzo - An Overview of The Mayan World
1931 Bertolt Brecht, etc - The Threepenny Opera screenplay
1964 Philip K Dick - Martian Time Slip
1902 Alice Earle - Sun-Dials and Roses of Yesterday
1785 Rudolf Erich Raspe - The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
2025 Dave Fischer - I Dont Want to Either
1972 Arthur C Clarke - Report on Planet Three
1905 L Frank Baum - Queen Zixi of Ix
1942 Beryl Markham - West With The Night
2014 Valentina Tanni - Eternal September
1976 Philip K Dick - Deus Irae
1997 David Robinson - Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1919 Janowitz and Mayer - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1964 Philip K Dick - The Simulacra
1897 Bram Stoker - Dracula
1951 Jean Paul Sartre - The Devil and The Good Lord
1926 Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
1955 C S Lewis - The Magicians Nephew
1971 Stanislaw Lem - The Star Diaries
1915 Gustav Meyrink - The Golem
1933 Ba Jin - Autumn in Spring
1965 Philip K Dick - The Zap Gun
1972 Thomas Disch - 334
1927 Gustav Meyrink - The Angel of The West Window
1932 Erskine Caldwell - Tobacco Road
1979 Italo Calvino - If on a Winters Night a Traveler
1917 Marcel Allain - A Nest of Spies