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All books I read since April 2024

Updated 12.04.2025.

Albrecht Durer — Lectern with books (1521)

Books

Books I read since April 2024:

• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert — on the concept of “ghafla” (things get really freaking weird in this part of the series)
• Убивче зілля. Історії (не)вигаданих отрут by Володимир Саркісян
• Alfons Mucha by Renate Ulmer
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy: Man of Property (sorry, but I’m rooting for Forsytes; the lady and her lover are really mean)
• Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (it’s a great book)
• Amnesia by José Luis Ocasar Ariza (just Spanish practice)
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (not that good as a non-fiction, great potential of a fiction read)
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell — my favorite scene, character meeting a tiger (overall average read)
• Circe by Madeline Miller — favorite quotes here (good!)
• How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley
• Bog Bodies Uncovered by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
• The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon: The Iron King (a crazy good series)
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty (no it will not + and it’s not that good of a book)
• The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon: The Strangled Queen (still going on great)
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles (probably one of my top 3 favorites now, and I thought it’s gonna be “just” a romance novel!)
• The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon: The Poisoned Crown (as good as the previous ones)
• Пелагия и Белый Бульдог by Борис Акунин (boring)
• The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon: The Royal Succession (fire)
• God-Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (Frank cannot write women)
• The Happiness of Women by Emile Zola (kinda sexist but cute)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (OMG)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (the best audiobook)
• Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell (unexpectedly modern and good)
• Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson (a great read!)
• Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (he’s such a bad writer I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself)
• How to build a dinosaur by J. Horner (OK)

Books I read in 2025:

• The Idiot by F. Dostoevsky (I survived (barely))
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin (the ending is too boring, other than that I’m a total simp for Mr. Darcy)
• Повія by Панас Мирний (Ukrainian literature is so depressing)
• Dragonsdawn by A. McCaffrey (the book is awful, however, the series is golden)
• Great Gatsby by F. S. Fitzgerald (cried my eyes out, also the most beautiful English in the history of humanity)
• Swann’s Way by M. Proust (the most beautiful book in all of human existence)

In progress:

• The Romanovs by S. Montefiore (a bloody masterpiece, also fUcK the tsars)
• Total Cat Mojo by J. Galaxy (for now quite boring)