Usual goal of reading a lot. Started to investigate Central/Eastern literature. Will continue that. Also continuing investigation of Central/Eastern European history, etc. Balkans and/or Central Asia might be next. Trying to limit "fun" reading (i.e. sci-fi, people like Stephen King, Robert Galbraith, etc.) to when I am on vacation. Did pretty well with this last year.
Konstantin Paustovsky - The Story of a Life (Books 1-3) (trans. Douglas Smith)
A. Wess Mitchell - The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire
Antanas Škėma - White Shroud (trans. Karla Gruodis)
Dalia Grinkevičiūtė - Shadows on the Tundra (trans. Delija Valiukenas)
George Packer - The Unwinding
Giedra Radvilavičiūtė - Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (trans. Elizabeth Novickas)
Alexander Watson - Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Simon Shuster - The Showman: Inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader
of Volodymyr Zelensky
Alexander Watson - The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Jurgis Kunčinas - Tūla (trans. Elizabeth Novickas)
Bohumil Hrabal - All My Cats (trans. Paul Wilson)
Derek Sayer - The Coast of Bohemia: A Czech History
Bohumil Hrabal - Mr. Kafka and Other Tales From the Time of the Cult (trans. Paul Wilson)
Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude (trans. Michael Henry Heim)
Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains (trans. Edith Pargeter)
Jiří Gruša - The Questionnaire (trans. Peter Kussi)
Jáchym Topol - Angel Station (trans. Alex Zucker)
Patrik Ouřednik - Case Closed (trans. Alex Zucker)
Patrik Ouřednik - The Opportune Moment, 1855 (trans. Alex Zucker)
Peter Demetz - Prague in Black and Gold: the History of a City
Derek Sayer - Prague: Crossroads of Europe
Jaroslav Pánek, Oldřich Tůma, et alii. - A History of the Czech Lands (Second Edition)
Kevin McDermott - Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89: a Political and Social History
Mary Heimann - Czechoslovakia: the State That Failed
Franz Kafka - The Trial (trans. Mike Mitchell)
Angelo Maria Ripellino - Magic Prague (trans. David Newton Marinelli; edit. Michael Henry Heim)
Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk (trans. Cecil Parrott)
Franz Kafka - The Castle (trans. Anthea Bell)
Stephen King - Just After Sunset (ebook)
Stephen King - Night Shift (ebook)
Alastair Reynolds - Revenger (Revenger Universe 01)
Alastair Reynolds - Shadow Captain (Revenger Universe 02)
Alastair Reynolds - Bone Silence (Revenger Universe 03)
Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes (ebook)
Studs Terkel - "The Good War"
Jeffrey Barlough - Hooting Grange (Western Lights 11)
Alan Garner - Treacle Walker
D.J. Taylor - The Windsor Faction
Joanne McNeil - Wrong Way
2023 list