Dansite Reading Journal

Dan Jewett's chronological reading record.

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Book, read August 6, 2025
The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read August 6, 2025
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
by John Wyndham
Science Fiction
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Book, read July 31, 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez • translated by Gregory Rabassa
Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Article, read July 27, 2025
The Red and the Green

The New York Review, July 21, 2025

by Casey A. Williams
Climate Crisis Politics Socialsim
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Book, read July 21, 2025
Hell Yeah, or No: What's Worth Doing (2020)
by Derek Sivers
How to Be Non-Fiction
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Collection, read July 18, 2025
Fictions (1962)
by Jorge Luis Borges • translated by Andrew Hurley
Literary Fiction Short Stories
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Play, read July 15, 2025
Oedipus the King (429 BCE)
by Sophocles • translated by David Greene
Classic Literature
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Book, read July 7, 2025
Walking: One Step at a Time (2019)
by Erling Kagge • translated by Becky L. Crook
How to Be Nature Writing Non-Fiction
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Book, read June 23, 2025
Moby Dick: or, The Whale (1851)
by Herman Melville
American Literature Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Book, read June 10, 2025
Chocky (1968)
by John Wyndham
Science Fiction
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Book, read June 8, 2025
The Crying of Lot 49 (1965)
by Thomas Pynchon
American Literature Literary Fiction
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Book, read May 30, 2025
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Literature Classic Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick
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Collection, read May 11, 2025
Disremembering (2021)
by Michelle Joy Gallagher Soffe
Poetry
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Ebook, read April 15, 2025
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, No. 1 (2017)
by Martha Wells
Ebook Fun Science Fiction
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Collection, read February 13, 2025
Changing Planes (2003)
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fun Science Fiction Short Stories
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Play, read February 7, 2025
Death of a Salesman (1949)
by Arthur Miller
American Literature Stageplay
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Book, read January 19, 2025
Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
by Rainer Maria Rilke • translated by Charlie Louth
Classic Literature Non-Fiction
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Book, read October 20, 2024
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
by Derek Sivers
How to Be Non-Fiction
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Book, read September 23, 2024
Git For Humans (2016)
by David Demaree
Computer Tech Non-Fiction
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Book, read August 25, 2024
East of Eden (1952)
by John Steinbeck
American Literature Literary Fiction Top Pick