Ongoing

きみの友だち (Your Friends)

• Author: 重松清 (Kiyoshi Shigematsu)
• Progress: Ongoing
• Start Date: July 2025
• Summary: A Japanese novel about how a young girl and those around her cope with the injuries she sustained in a disfiguring car accident.

Completed

The Wager

• Author: David Grann
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: January 2025
• Summary: A 1741 tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder on the HMS Wager, a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

• Author: Stephen Chbosky
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: September 2025
• Summary: Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie, an introverted and observant teenager, through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

• Author: David Graeber
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: June 2025
• Summary: Explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions such as barter, marriage, friendship, slavery, law, religion, war and government.

Death on the Nile

• Author: Agatha Christie
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: February 2025
• Summary: A classic Agatha Christie mystery set in 1930s Egypt.

Anansi Boys

• Author: Neil Gaiman
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: May 9, 2024
• Summary: A darkly humorous fantasy novel about the sons of Anansi, the trickster god, blending mythology, magic, and modern life.

Women

• Author: Charles Bukowski
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: May 7, 2024
• Summary: A semi-autobiographical novel about the chaotic relationships of the hard-drinking writer Henry Chinaski.

Factotum

• Author: Charles Bukowski
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: February 18, 2024
• Summary: A raw, gritty novel following Henry Chinaski’s aimless journey through low-paying jobs and drinking binges.

The Utopia of Rules

• Author: David Graeber
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: January 26, 2024
• Summary: An insightful critique of bureaucracy, exploring its history, power structures, and impact on society.

Company

• Author: Max Barry
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: January 13, 2024
• Summary: A satirical novel about corporate life and workplace absurdities in a mysterious, secretive company.

Ready Player One

• Author: Ernest Cline
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: November 17, 2023
• Summary: A fast-paced sci-fi adventure set in a virtual reality world filled with 1980s pop culture references.

My Other Life

• Author: Paul Theroux
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: August 15, 2023
• Summary: A fictionalized autobiography blending reality and imagination to explore the different paths a writer’s life could take.

Anna Karenina

• Author: Leo Tolstoy
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: July 3, 2023
• Summary: A classic Russian novel exploring love, betrayal, and societal norms through the tragic life of Anna Karenina.

The Fault in Our Stars

• Author: John Green
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: June 29, 2023
• Summary: A heartbreaking yet humorous young adult novel about love and illness, following two teens with cancer.

Blood Meridian

• Author: Cormac McCarthy
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: June 11, 2023
• Summary: A brutal and poetic Western novel about violence, destiny, and survival on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Midnight Library

• Author: Matt Haig
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: April 20, 2023
• Summary: A thought-provoking novel exploring alternate lives through a mystical library that exists between life and death.

Slaughterhouse-Five

• Author: Kurt Vonnegut
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: February 27, 2023
• Summary: A satirical anti-war novel blending science fiction, time travel, and a darkly humorous perspective on World War II.

The Stranger

• Author: Albert Camus
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: October 26, 2022
• Summary: A philosophical novel exploring existentialism and absurdity through the detached life of Meursault.

The Roads to Sata

• Author: Alan Booth
• Progress: Finished
• Start Date: September 2, 2022
• Summary: A travel memoir documenting the author's journey on foot across Japan, filled with cultural insights and humor.