2019

• La Sombra del Viento, Carlos Luis Zafón 🟡
• Journey Under the Midnight Sun (白夜行), Keigo Higashino 🔵
• The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham 🔴
• El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Gabriel García Márquez 🟡
• 放学后, Keigo Higashino 🔵
• Wandering Earth (流浪地球), Cixin Liu 🔵
• Fall of Giants, Ken Follett 🔴
• 虚无的十字架, Keigo Higashino 🔵
• El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Gabriel García Márquez 🟡
• La Fiesta del Chivo, Mario Vargas Llosa 🟡
• Norwegian Wood (挪威的森林), Haruki Murakami 🔵
• Winter of the World, Ken Follett 🔴
• La Casa Verde, Mario Vargas Llosa 🟡

2020

• 书剑恩仇录，金庸 🔵
• The Edge of Eternity, Ken Follett 🔴
• Conversación en La Catedral, Mario Vargas Llosa 🟡
• 大江东去，阿耐 🔵
• La ciudad y los perros, Mario Vargas Llosa 🟡
• The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 🔴
• La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende 🟡
• The Three Body Problem (三体), Cixin Liu 🔵
• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 🔴

some catastrophic world event may have happened in these missing three years...

2024

• Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 🔴
• Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins 🔴
• Freedom, Jonathan Franzen 🔴
• A long petal of the sea, Isabel Allende 🔴
• Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins 🔴
• Violeta, Isabel Allende 🟡
• Purity, Jonathan Franzen 🔴
• My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante 🔴
• Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 🔴

2025

• 1Q84, Haruki Murakami 🔵
• The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante 🔴
• Sunrise at the Reaping, Suzanne Collins 🔴
• Yellowface, R.F. Kuang 🔴
• The Idiot, Elif Batuman 🔴
• Normal People, Sally Rooney 🔴

2026

• The Plague, Albert Camus 🔴
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang 🔴
• Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen 🔴 (ongoing)

upcoming...

always open to recommendations!

• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway 🔴
• The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka 🔴
• Fateless, Imre Kertesz 🔴
• 活着, 余华 🔵
• 许三观卖血记, 余华 🔵
• The Shining, Stephen King 🔴
• Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky 🔴
• Circe, Madeline Miller 🔴
• Babel, R.F. Kuang 🔴
• The Secret History, Donna Tartt 🔴
• Either/Or, Elif Batuman 🔴
• Un mundo para Julius, Alfredo Bryce Echenique 🟡
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami 🔵
• Dance Dance Dance, Haruki Murakami 🔵
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante 🔴
• The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 🔴

undated

i don't remember when i read these, but i did. interestingly since i couldn't read spanish proper until my later teens, my early reading is dominated by english and chinese books. this is further subdivided into languages for organization.

english

i tended to gravitate towards classics in the ancient times, which is quite evident from this list.

• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
• Hard Times, Charles Dickens
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• 1984, George Orwell
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
• Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Rick Riordan
• The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan
• The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• Angels & Demons, Dan Brown
• The Maze Runners Series, James Dashner
• The Divergent trilogy, Veronica Roth
• Carrie, Stephen King
• Pet Semetary, Stephen King
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Atonement, Ian McEwan
• The Sherlock Holmes Canon, Arthur Conan Doyle

chinese

我中文书读的比较杂，主要是人在秘鲁也没什么中文图书馆，所以基本上能捡到什么读什么。当然我古早时代也读了一堆网络小说，但是那些写出来就比较丢脸了 :)

• 嫌疑犯X的献身, Keigo Higashino
• 解忧杂货店, Keigo Higashino
• 射雕英雄传, 金庸
• 神雕侠侣, 金庸
• 倚天屠龙记, 金庸
• 雪山飞狐, 金庸
• 侠客行, 金庸
• 天龙八部, 金庸
• 鹿鼎记, 金庸
• 笑傲江湖, 金庸
• 圈子圈套, 王强
• 明朝那些事儿, 石悦
• 鬼吹灯, 天下霸唱
• 康熙大帝, 二月河
• 雍正皇帝, 二月河
• 乾隆皇帝, 二月河
• 走吧，张小砚, 张小砚
• The Art of War (孙子兵法), Sun-Tzu :)
• Journey to the West (西游记), Wu Cheng'en
• Romance of Three Kingdoms (三国演义), Luo Guanzhong
• 白玉老虎, 古龙
• 下南洋, 雾满拦江
• 撒哈拉的眼泪：三毛传, 朱云乔

spanish

i could barely read in spanish before like 2018, and this book was my first.

• Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez