My 2022 Reading List

For Those Interested in How I Spent My Time in the Last Year

My 2022 reading [wife for scale]

The Laws - Plato
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
Political Speeches - Cicero
The Republic and the Laws - Cicero
Dialogues and Essays - Seneca
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Complete Letters - Pliny the Younger
Three Early Modern Utopias - Moore, Bacon, Neville
Behemoth - Thomas Hobbes
On Agriculture - Cato
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Rome in Crisis - Plutarch
The Fall of the Roman Republic - Plutarch
Caitiline’s Conspiracy & The Jugurthine War - Sallust
The Landmark Julius Caesar - Julius Caesar
The Foreign Wars - Appian
The Civil Wars - Appian
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus - Cassius Dio
The Roman History - Velleius Paterculus
Annals of Imperial Rome - Tacitus
The Histories - Tacitus
The Jewish War - Josephus
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
The Aenied - Virgil
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adolescent - Fyodor Doestoevsky
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
Flags in the Dust - William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Light in August - William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
The Unvanquished - William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
The Hamlet - William Faulkner
The Town - William Faulkner
The Mansion - William Faulkner
Knight’s Gambit - William Faulkner
The Reivers - William Faulkner
1984 - George Orwell
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot
Moominpappa at Sea - Tove Jansson
Cop in the Hood - Peter Moskos



Next year I will be continuing to learn what I can about Roman history past 100 AD (the quality histories really drop off) and reading more Stoicism from the era. As well as some more Dostoevsky reading (I already started Crime & Punishment) I will be finally reading Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”, and probably getting into French literature generally, which I love but haven’t made time to read in many years as I always read American and Russian literature. I will also be reading more “modern” political theory, I have Locke to start currently, and then need to get into Montesquieu.