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Books I Have Read or Am Working on Reading

Books I Have Read or Am Working on Reading

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Robert Lindsay
Mar 22, 2025
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Just updated this with a number of new books I dipped into.

For the curious, this is a life list of all of the books I have read.

Short story collections, poetry, and plays are labeled, and some of the nonfiction is labeled further by category.

I dip into a lot of books that I own and then put them down. These are 2-9 pages. They are listed as “bits.” Longer excursions into books of 10-29 pages are listed as “some.” Beyond that I just list the number of pages.

“Excerpts” are where I did not have a physical copy of the book but instead read a bit of the book on the web. These are usually 4-10 pages. Where they go over, they are listed as “some” or a page number.

Technically I’m probably reading ~200 books at once, but of course I’m not reading all of them at the same time. How many am I reading at the same time? Perhaps two or three.

This isn’t meant to be a brag because if you knew anything about my life, you’d realize there’s nothing to brag about. But if you feel like complimenting me, be…

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