2025 booklist in chronological order:

1. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Some readings before 2024 that I love(d) or hate(d) too much:

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2. Putin Biography by Ding Zhike

3. Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland

4. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

5. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

6. The world since 1500 by L. S. Stavrianos

7. White Deer Plain (白鹿原) by Chen Zhongshi (陈忠实)

8. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

10. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

11. Caligula: Work in Four Acts by Albert Camus

12. The State of Siege by Albert Camus

Part of my 2024 booklist in chronological order:

1. The Fruits of the Earth by André Gide

2. Faust by Goethe

3. Odyssey by Homer

4. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳) by Mo Yan (莫言)