Reading

Dan Meyer · A Reading Log

I like to read, and occasionally post about it on Instagram as Tea Leaves & Tweed. Below is a running log of what I’ve finished since late 2023, sorted with the most recent first. ★ indicates a favorite; indicates a book I’ve reread.

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2026 40 books

• A Confederacy of Dunces · John Kennedy Toole Sep 23
• — · — Sep 21
• Mysteries · Knut Hamsun Sep 10
• ★ Thus Spoke Zarathustra · Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Loeb & Tinsley) Aug 26
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion · Yukio Mishima Aug 23
• ★ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? · Philip K. Dick Aug 13
• On the Marble Cliffs · Ernst Jünger Aug 4
• Typee · Herman Melville Jul 30
• ★ The Death of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra · Paul S. Loeb Jul 28
• ★ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress · Robert A. Heinlein Jul 16
• ★ The White Rajahs · Steven Runciman Jul 10
• Redburn · Herman Melville Jun 28
• The Voyage of Argo · Apollonius of Rhodes Jun 26
• The Face of Another · Kōbō Abe Jun 16
• Digging Up the Past · Leonard Woolley Jun 14
• The Joyful Science / Idylls of Messina · Friedrich Nietzsche Jun 12
• The Arrow of Gold · Joseph Conrad Jun 4
• ★ The Horse, the Wheel, and Language · David W. Anthony Jun 2
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover · D.H. Lawrence May 15
• Dawn · Friedrich Nietzsche May 13
• Paideia, Vol. I · Werner Jaeger May 1
• ★ The Tartar Steppe · Dino Buzzati Apr 25
• Human, All Too Human II · Friedrich Nietzsche Apr 13
• Death in Midsummer and Other Stories · Yukio Mishima Apr 13
• Eroticism · Georges Bataille Apr 4
• Wise Blood · Flannery O’Connor Apr 4
• ★ The Roman Revolution · Ronald Syme Mar 27
• ★ Confessions of a Mask · Yukio Mishima Mar 26
• Human, All Too Human I · Friedrich Nietzsche Mar 18
• The Sound of the Waves · Yukio Mishima Mar 11
• The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald Mar 5
• Pan · Knut Hamsun Feb 25
• Unfashionable Observations · Friedrich Nietzsche Feb 19
• A Farewell to Arms · Ernest Hemingway Feb 17
• Cantos · Ezra Pound Feb 8
• The Sound and the Fury · William Faulkner Feb 7
• Acharnians · Aristophanes Feb 3
• Unpublished Basel Writings · Friedrich Nietzsche Feb 2
• The Birth of Tragedy · Friedrich Nietzsche Jan 21
• Death on the Installment Plan · Louis-Ferdinand Céline Jan 14

2025 64 books

• The Consolation of Philosophy · Boethius Dec 30
• Theological Tractates · Boethius Dec 28
• The Idiot · Fyodor Dostoevsky Dec 24
• Essential Tibetan Buddhism · Robert A.F. Thurman Dec 12
• The Shaman’s Coat · Anna Reid Dec 8
• ★ The Golden Bough, Vol. II · James George Frazer Nov 29
• Magus · Anthony Grafton Nov 12
• ★ Roman Lives · Plutarch Nov 8
• ★ The History of Rome · Theodor Mommsen Oct 24
• Old School · Tobias Wolff Oct 14
• To the Lighthouse · Virginia Woolf Sep 27
• The Sophist · Plato Aug 29
• ★ Hunger · Knut Hamsun Aug 24
• The Conquest of New Spain · Bernal Díaz Aug 18
• ★ Grecian Lives (trans. Perrin) · Plutarch Aug 4
• The Last Battle · C.S. Lewis Jul 25
• The Silver Chair · C.S. Lewis Jul 24
• Prince Caspian · C.S. Lewis Jul 22
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader · C.S. Lewis Jul 22
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe · C.S. Lewis Jul 21
• The Horse and His Boy · C.S. Lewis Jul 21
• Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen Jul 19
• The Magician’s Nephew · C.S. Lewis Jul 19
• The Decay of the Angel · Yukio Mishima Jul 3
• Temple of Dawn · Yukio Mishima Jun 28
• Theaetetus · Plato Jun 27
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. II · Edward Gibbon Jun 23
• ★ Runaway Horses · Yukio Mishima Jun 20
• Henry VIII · William Shakespeare Jun 9
• ★ Spring Snow · Yukio Mishima Jun 9
• ★ Richard III · William Shakespeare Jun 6
• Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 · William Shakespeare Jun 3
• The Wars of the Roses · Dan Jones May 27
• Henry V · William Shakespeare May 18
• Henry V · Dan Jones May 15
• ★ Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 · William Shakespeare May 7
• King Richard II · William Shakespeare Apr 30
• The Plantagenets · Dan Jones Apr 28
• Victoria · Knut Hamsun Apr 27
• Barabbas · Pär Lagerkvist Apr 21
• Poems · William Blake Apr 18
• King John · William Shakespeare Apr 17
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Arthur Conan Doyle Apr 14
• The Great Game · Peter Hopkirk Apr 14
• Paradise Lost · John Milton Apr 6
• ★ The Odyssey · Homer Mar 29
• The Pasha’s Concubine and Other Tales · Ivo Andrić Mar 24
• The Will to Power · Friedrich Nietzsche Mar 15
• Dream Story · Arthur Schnitzler Mar 10
• The Sorrows of Young Werther · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mar 5
• Wagner’s Ring and Its Symbols · Robert Donington Mar 3
• The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli Feb 26
• Philip and Alexander · Adrian Goldsworthy Feb 21
• ★ The Sun Also Rises · Ernest Hemingway Feb 20
• The Golden Bough, Vol. I · James George Frazer Feb 15
• ★ Hyperion · Friedrich Hölderlin Feb 12
• The Dwarf · Pär Lagerkvist Feb 12
• Thirst for Love · Yukio Mishima Feb 6
• A Study in Scarlet · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Feb 1
• ★ The Oresteia (trans. Taplin) · Aeschylus Jan 29
• Death in Venice · Thomas Mann Jan 29
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed · Eric H. Cline Jan 26
• ★ The Iliad (trans. Lattimore) · Homer Jan 25
• Journey to the End of the Night · Louis-Ferdinand Céline Jan 14

2024 57 books

• The Cossacks · Leo Tolstoy Dec 29
• Rhythm of War · Brandon Sanderson Dec 28
• ★ Selective Breeding · Costin Alamariu Dec 27
• ★ Bronze Age Mindset · Bronze Age Pervert Dec 15
• ★ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath · H.P. Lovecraft Dec 10
• ★ Lolita · Vladimir Nabokov Nov 28
• The Plague · Albert Camus Nov 20
• The Shadow of the Torturer · Gene Wolfe Nov 12
• ★ The White Goddess · Robert Graves Nov 3
• Shadows of Carcosa · ed. D. Thin Oct 31
• Demian · Hermann Hesse Oct 29
• Julius Caesar · Philip Freeman Oct 29
• ★ Crime and Punishment · Fyodor Dostoevsky Oct 18
• Wuthering Heights · Emily Brontë Oct 9
• Titus Andronicus · William Shakespeare Oct 4
• The Anglo-Saxons · Marc Morris Oct 2
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court · Mark Twain Sep 27
• Coriolanus · William Shakespeare Sep 16
• Mirgorod · Nikolai Gogol Sep 16
• The King in Yellow · Robert W. Chambers Sep 15
• Arthurian Romances · Chrétien de Troyes Sep 14
• Taras Bulba · Nikolai Gogol Sep 12
• The Road · Cormac McCarthy Sep 5
• ★ Stoner · John Williams Sep 2
• River of the Gods · Candice Millard Aug 30
• Wide Sargasso Sea · Jean Rhys Aug 23
• Antony and Cleopatra · William Shakespeare Aug 21
• Destiny of the Republic · Candice Millard Aug 18
• ★ Forbidden Colors · Yukio Mishima Aug 10
• Julius Caesar · William Shakespeare Aug 8
• History of the Kings of Britain · Geoffrey of Monmouth Aug 6
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · Anonymous Jul 28
• Mrs. Dalloway · Virginia Woolf Jul 24
• The Mabinogion · Anonymous Jul 24
• ★ The Master and Margarita · Mikhail Bulgakov Jul 16
• Jane Eyre · Charlotte Brontë Jul 6
• ★ Storm of Steel · Ernst Jünger Jun 28
• Coraline · Neil Gaiman Jun 22
• Crito · Plato Jun 21
• Notes from Underground · Fyodor Dostoevsky Jun 19
• The Box Man · Kōbō Abe Jun 17
• ★ The Sparrow · Mary Doria Russell Jun 14
• Madame Bovary · Gustave Flaubert May 3
• Edge of Empires · Donald Rayfield Apr 24
• Woman from Sarajevo · Ivo Andrić Apr 6
• The Ottoman Empire · Lord Kinross (Patrick Balfour) Mar 30
• A Burnt-Out Case · Graham Greene Mar 22
• Adventures in Caucasia · Alexandre Dumas Mar 12
• ★ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I · Edward Gibbon Feb 28
• Achilles in Vietnam · Jonathan Shay Feb 20
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea · Yukio Mishima Feb 16
• The Cratylus · Plato Feb 3
• The Scythians · Barry Cunliffe Jan 30
• Père Goriot · Honoré de Balzac Jan 26
• The Greek Myths I · Robert Graves Jan 14
• Iron Flame · Rebecca Yarros Jan 13
• Far From the Madding Crowd · Thomas Hardy Jan 12