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Title Author Date Read
◈ Le Mythe de Sisyphe Albert Camus ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry Various Authors ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion Silvio Lorusso ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Southernmost: Sonnets Leo Boix 21.06.25
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices Xinran 01.06.25
Looking for Luddites John Hewitt 23.05.25
Ce que c'est que l'exil Victor Hugo 17.05.25
Duchamp's Last Day Donald Shambroom 09.05.25
Notes on 'Camp' Susan Sontag 06.05.25
10.000 horas en La Silla Vacía: Periodismo y poder en un nuevo mundo Juanita León 30.04.25
Mudanza Alejandro Zambra 08.04.25 30.04.24
◈ El oficio de vivir María Mercedes Carranza 05.04.25 23.08.24
Modular fonts for fun and profit Rocketfuelled! Studio 04.04.25
◈ The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 29.03.25
Athalie Jean Racine 23.03.25
Fables Choisies Jean de La Fontaine 17.03.25
Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sunderban Amitav Ghosh Salman Toor 17.03.25 29.07.23
◈ Éloge de l'ombre Tanizaki Jun'ichirou 19.02.25
Album Jorge Luis Borges: Iconographie commentée Jean-Pierre Bernés 05.02.25
L'homme qui plantait des arbres Jean Giono 03.02.25
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle Daniel L. Everett 31.01.25
L'exil et le royaume Albert Camus 20.01.25
◈ Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 06.01.25
Title Author Date Read
The Manchurian Candidate Richard Condon 31.12.24
Ishmael Daniel Quinn 16.12.24
The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak 30.11.24
◈ The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits Lewis Carroll 13.10.24
◈ Pensamientos: discursos de ética y periodismo Javier Darío Restrepo 09.10.24
Refus d'obéissance Jean Giono 18.09.24
Mis días en la librería Morisaki Yagisawa Satoshi 01.09.24
El libro uruguayo de los muertos Mario Bellatin 30.08.24
◈ Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück 31.07.24 26.01.22 11.03.15
Bogotá Contada 10 Various Authors 23.07.24
Pantano Ana Emilia Felker 15.07.24
Entretierras Franklin Arellano Julia Nanda Bejarano 11.07.24
De sobremesa José Asunción Silva 09.07.24
Lettre à un otage Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 14.06.24
L'été Albert Camus 07.06.24
Final del juego Julio Cortázar 02.06.24
La oración de la última rana y otras crónicas Luis Tejada 24.05.24
Recetario de sabores lejanos Various Authors 14.05.24
◈ Lia: Cem vistas do monte Fuji Caetano W. Galindo 11.05.24
Kind of Blue Juan Carlos Garay 08.05.24
Pátria Junqueiro Guerra 27.04.24
◈ El túnel Ernesto Sabato 12.04.24
Le Petit Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 03.04.24 08.01.19 15.11.13
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 23.03.24
◈ Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 10.03.24
A Book of Common Prayer Joan Didion 26.02.24
Propaganda Edward L. Bernays 22.02.24
◈ The Awakening Kate Chopin 20.02.24
Bestiario Julio Cortázar 11.02.24
◈ The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 04.02.24
◈ The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 22.01.24
Educated Tara Westover 18.01.24
Nadie me verá llorar Cristina Rivera Garza 08.01.24
Title Author Date Read
A nudez da cópia imperfeita Wagner Schwartz 31.12.23
◈ The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph Albert O. Hirschman 22.12.23
◈ A Hora da Estrela Clarice Lispector 08.12.23
◈ La muerte de Artemio Cruz Carlos Fuentes 03.12.23
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong 26.11.23
In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka 26.11.23
Carta ao pai Franz Kafka 17.11.23
◈ King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild 15.11.23
Oui, mon commandant! Hampâté Amadou Bâ 12.11.23
◈ La Chute Albert Camus 19.10.23
Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 09.10.23 05.12.16
Walking Is a Way of Knowing in a Kadar Forest Madhuri Ramesh Manish Chandi Matthew Frame 07.09.23
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 20.08.23 08.02.15
Linotipia. Uno se encariña del oficio como se encariña con un ser querido. Linotipistas de Guadalajara. Ana Paula Santana 31.07.23
Letters from a Stoic Seneca 26.07.23
◈ Rhinocéros Eugène Ionesco 29.07.23
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer 27.07.23
Un rude hiver Raymond Queneau 20.06.23
Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches Jean-Paul Sartre 11.06.23
◈ Winter Recipes from the Collective Louise Glück 04.06.23
L'Autre Fille Annie Ernaux 02.06.23
Les Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau 28.05.23
La Mata Eliana Hernández Pachón
Maria Isabel Rueda
06.05.23
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 30.04.23
Relato de un náufrago Gabriel García Márquez 11.03.23
Esta herida llena de peces Lorena Salazar Masso 20.02.23
◈ La prix des choses sans prix Jean Duvignaud 23.01.23
Title Author Date Read
Peldaño poemas Ángel Cuadra 31.10.22
Miss Harriet et autres nouvelles Guy de Maupassant 17.09.22
La Petite poule d'eau Gabrielle Roy 06.09.22
◈ Un viejo que leía novelas de amor Luis Sepúlveda 26.08.22
A Small Town in Germany John le Carré 01.05.22
Le Rayon vert Jules Verne 10.04.22
◈ El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Gabriel García Márquez 10.04.22 06.11.16
Los heraldos negros César Vallejo 05.04.22
◈ Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée Dai Sijie 25.03.22
El caballero Carmelo y otros cuentos criollos Abraham Valdelomar 20.03.22
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada Pablo Neruda 01.03.22 26.01.17
Les Indes noires Jules Verne 06.02.22
◈ La Difficulté d'être Jean Cocteau 01.02.22
Virus tropical Powerpaola 18.01.22
Title Author Date Read
La pluie et le beau temps Jacques Prévert 13.11.21
◈ North and South Elizabeth Gaskell 25.08.21
Island Aldous Huxley 08.08.21
Norwegian Wood Murakami Haruki 16.07.21
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee 18.06.21
The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565-1815 Peter Gordon 24.05.21
◈ Le Général de l'armée morte Ismail Kadare 11.05.21
◈ Le Roi se meurt Eugène Ionesco 19.04.21
The Quarantine Tales Various Authors 27.02.21
San Manuel Bueno, mártir Miguel de Unamuno 14.02.21
La tía Tula Miguel de Unamuno 11.02.21
Abel Sánchez Miguel de Unamuno 04.02.21
◈ Niebla Miguel de Unamuno 29.01.21
Desierto sonoro Valeria Luiselli 19.01.21
Title Author Date Read
Perceval ou Le Conte du Graal Chrétien de Troyes 08.12.20
Lazarillo de Tormes Unknown 29.11.20
Il faut tuer Sammy Ahmed Madani 27.11.20
◈ Chair Piment Gisèle Pineau 22.11.20
Diab'-la Joseph Zobel 30.09.20
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 24.09.20
99 Francs Frédéric Beigbeder 21.09.20
◈ La peste Albert Camus 06.09.20
Poèmes de l'archipel Raymond Joyeux 29.08.20
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Ann Jacobs 23.08.20
◈ La Jalousie Alain Robbe-Grillet 14.07.20
◈ Le Diable au corps Raymond Radiguet 22.06.20 05.11.17
L'Amant Marguerite Duras 05.06.20
Les Damnés de la terre Frantz Fanon 19.05.20
Los rituales del caos Carlos Monsiváis 23.04.20
La hojarasca Gabriel García Márquez 16.03.20
Yerma Federico García Lorca 28.02.20
◈ Pedro Páramo Juan Rulfo 28.02.20 30.11.16
La mauvaise graine et autres nouvelles Jean-Bernard Pouy 01.02.20
L'Étranger Albert Camus 30.01.20
◈ L'Homme-au-Bâton Ernest Pépin 21.01.20
La Tragedie Du Roi Christophe Césaire Aimé 14.01.20
Le Cœur à rire et à pleurer Maryse Condé 03.01.20
◈ Space Invaders Nona Fernández 02.01.20 12.03.18
Title Author Date Read
◈ Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 17.12.19 01.03.15
Paula Isabel Allende 05.11.19 02.09.14
◈ The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien 10.07.19 30.04.14
◈ King Lear William Shakespeare 21.06.19 18.03.14
◈ Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 14.06.19 XX.10.13
◈ Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 15.05.19 XX.11.12
◈ Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez 03.05.19 XX.XX.13
◈ Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 09.03.19 XX.XX.09
◈ Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll 14.02.19 XX.XX.08
◈ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 14.02.19 XX.XX.08
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 03.02.19 XX.XX.05
Title Author Date Read
Paroles Jacques Prévert 31.12.18
Le Lys dans la vallée Honoré de Balzac 20.11.18
Las venas abiertas de América Latina Eduardo Galeano 02.11.18
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours Jules Verne 11.10.18
◈ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Hannah Arendt 15.09.18
Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit Victor Hugo 11.09.18
El general en su laberinto Gabriel García Márquez 31.07.18
Le Mariage de Figaro Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais 02.06.18
Lettres d'une Péruvienne Françoise de Graffigny 15.05.18
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard Pierre de Marivaux 06.05.18
Novelas ejemplares I Miguel de Cervantes 01.05.18
La Bandera de Chile Elvira Hernández 26.04.18
La Princesse de Clèves Madame de La Fayette 25.04.18
Dom Juan Molière 14.04.18
Le Cid Pierre Corneille 03.04.18
El futuro es un lugar extraño Cynthia Rimsky 03.04.18
La vie devant soi Romain Gary 02.04.18
Comedia de Chile Guillermo Rivera 28.03.18
Persuasion Jane Austen 13.03.18 13.02.14
◈ Les Misérables Victor Hugo 11.03.18
◈ Los santos inocentes Miguel Delibes 10.03.18
◈ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell William Blake 13.02.18
◈ La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca 09.02.18
The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope 06.02.18
All for Love John Dryden 04.02.18
The Rover Aphra Behn 30.01.18
◈ Paradise Lost John Milton 19.01.18
Putas asesinas Roberto Bolaño 07.01.18
Title Author Date Read
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Jules Verne 22.12.17
◈ Hiroshima mon amour Marguerite Duras 01.12.17
La Cantatrice chauve Eugène Ionesco 23.11.17
Piedra pulida Nancy Morejón 23.11.17
Muñecas Ariel Magnus 08.11.17
◈ Salón de belleza Mario Bellatin 31.10.17
La virgen de los sicarios Fernando Vallejo 29.10.17
Un cœur simple Gustave Flaubert 15.10.17
Por la concordia Francesc Cambó y Battle 12.10.17
Agua viva Clarice Lispector 11.10.17
España tal como es Valentí Almirall 02.10.17
◈ On ne badine pas avec l'amour Alfred de Musset 30.09.17
René François-René de Chateaubriand 26.09.17
Desborde popular y crisis del Estado José Matos Mar 01.07.17
No pasó nada Antonio Skármeta 02.06.17
La casa de los espíritus Isabel Allende 07.04.17
El proceso de arabización de Alandalús: un caso medieval de interacción de lenguas Ángeles Vicente 08.03.17
El Arte de Viajar Alain de Botton 19.02.17
Candide Voltaire 06.01.17
Don Segundo Sombra Ricardo Güiraldes 04.01.17
The New Spaniards John Hooper 03.01.17
Title Author Date Read
La Princesse de Montpensier Madame de La Fayette 23.11.16
Flatland Edwin A. Abbott 21.11.16
Lord of the Flies William Golding 01.11.16
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott 17.09.16
◈ Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 06.07.16
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 26.05.16
Richard II William Shakespeare 02.05.16
Edward II Christopher Marlowe 28.04.16
The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd 26.04.16
Gorboduc, Or Ferrex And Porrex: A Tragedy Thomas Norton 21.04.16
Utopia Thomas More 12.04.16
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah 30.03.16
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Murakami Haruki 15.03.16
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture Ross King 05.03.16
◈ Ignorance Milan Kundera 05.03.16
Gorgias Plato 02.03.16
Museum Builders in the West: The Stanfords as Collectors and Patrons of Art 1870-1906 Carol M. Osborne 23.02.16
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf 01.02.16
The Martian Andy Weir 28.01.16
To Live Yu Hua 18.01.16
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez 03.01.16
Title Author Date Read
María Jorge Isaacs 24.12.15
The People of Paper Salvador Plascencia 18.12.15
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen 22.11.15
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel 16.11.15
◈ The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 23.10.15
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 15.10.15
◈ Morphology of the Folktale Vladimir Propp 27.09.15
The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson 01.09.15
Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science Sissela Bok 31.07.15
Poor Richard's Almanack Benjamin Franklin 24.07.15
◈ Half a Lifelong Romance Eileen Chang 21.07.15
◈ El otoño del patriarca Gabriel García Márquez 14.07.15
The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 07.07.15
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Jonathan Haidt 01.07.15
◈ The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami Haruki 25.06.15
Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert 15.06.15
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy Jostein Gaarder 11.06.15
◈ Crónica de una muerte anunciada Gabriel García Márquez 09.05.15
Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi 09.05.15
The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht 03.05.15
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 26.04.15
◈ The Waste Land T.S. Eliot 25.04.15
◈ Civilization and its Discontents Sigmund Freud 25.04.15
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx 28.03.15
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 24.03.15
In Cold Blood Truman Capote 06.03.15
◈ On Liberty John Stuart Mill 28.02.15
◈ Death in Venice Thomas Mann 22.02.15
A Discourse on Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau 21.02.15
Second Treatise of Government John Locke 16.02.15
Meditations on First Philosophy René Descartes 15.02.15
Discourse on Method René Descartes 14.02.15
Hamlet William Shakespeare 31.01.15
◈ Inferno Dante Alighieri 15.01.15
Eric and Enide Chrétien de Troyes 02.01.15
Title Author Date Read
Hannibal Thomas Harris 07.11.14
Republic Plato 02.11.14
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris 16.10.14
Red Dragon Thomas Harris 15.10.14
Poems and Fragments Sappho 15.10.14
Oresteia Aeschylus 13.10.14
The Bacchae Euripedes 08.10.14
Symposium Plato 23.09.14
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 07.09.14
◈ Odyssey Homer 03.09.14
Frankenstein Mary Shelley 01.08.14
Life of Pi Yann Martel 13.07.14
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines Richard A. Muller 06.07.14
My Year of Meats Ruth Ozeki 30.06.14
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin 29.06.14
◈ A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 28.03.14
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 04.02.14
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 30.01.14
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Sampson Davis 01.01.14
Title Author Date Read
Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 03.12.13
Measure for Measure William Shakespeare 25.11.13
The Tempest William Shakespeare 22.11.13
The Book Thief Markus Zusak 21.11.13
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare 20.11.13
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare 17.11.13
◈ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 14.11.13
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Vernes 08.11.13
Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons XX.10.13
◈ Oedipus Rex Sophocles XX.10.13
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Erik Larson XX.05.13
◈ The Great Gatsby Scott F. Fitzgerald XX.04.13
◈ Dracula Bram Stoker XX.03.13
Mansfield Park Jane Austen XX.03.13
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde XX.02.13
Emma Jane Austen XX.02.13
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen XX.01.13
Title Author Date Read
Grendel John Gardner XX.11.12
Briar Rose Jane Yolen XX.11.12
◈ The Crucible Arthur Miller XX.10.12
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again J.R.R. Tolkien XX.10.12
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams XX.10.12
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls XX.07.12
◈ The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson XX.07.12
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling Ross King XX.03.12
Anthem Ayn Rand XX.11.11
La ciudad de las bestias Isabel Allende XX.06.11
A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid XX.02.11
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros XX.09.10
◈ Macbeth William Shakespeare XX.03.10
Our Town Thornton Wilder XX.02.10
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck XX.11.09
Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century Jerome Lawrence XX.10.09
Shutter Island Dennis Lehane XX.03.09
The Cage Ruth Minsky Sender XX.01.05
A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett XX.09.04