2024 TBR.

I read one-fourth of the Library of Alexandria

before it was burnt to the floor.

—Canibus, “Master Thesis”

So, I think this is just about the be the verge (or, it is the verge . . .) of my becoming a reader like I am a listener-to of music. That means if I get a book, I’m going to slot it in for a soon-to-be reading session, informally but also truly, and then I’m going to do it.

So, what is my 2024 TBR (to-be read) list? It starts with what I’m working on now, which is The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher (the first book in the Witcher series, as far as I know), by Andrzej Sapkowski, and then the following:

2. Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth

3. Dune, by Frank Herbert

4. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

5. Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

6. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, by Friedrich Nietzsche (translation by R. J. Hollingdale)

7. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy (Re-read)