Sam Roelants

Throughout the years, I've had periods of semi-rigorously tracking books I was reading at the time, adding some notes or thoughts as I went along. Like most people, I kept this list on Goodreads , a "social media platform for book-lovers".

I don't have that many gripes with Goodreads per se, though I was slightly disappointed when Amazon decided to buy them up. In an attempt to self-publish as much as possible on this site — when it makes sense — rather than having my online persona be at the mercy of big social media hubs, I decided to experiment with maintaining my reading list on this website.

Don't go looking for fleshed out book reviews here. These are mostly just notes and reflections on things that stuck with me as I read these books.

Currently reading

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy
Read: Currently reading

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The Three Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1)
Author: Liu Cixin
Read: January 23, 2024
★★☆☆☆
Cat's Cradle
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Read: January 14, 2024
★★★★☆
On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac
Read: June 16, 2023
★★★★☆
Why We Sleep
Author: Matthew Walker
Read: May 31, 2023
★★★☆☆
Eugene Onegin
Author: Alexander Pushkin
Read: May 13, 2023
★★★★☆
20,000 Leagues under the sea
Author: Jules Verne
Read: April 24, 2023
★★★★☆
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Read: April 7, 2023
★★★★★
Janet for Mortals
Author: Ian Henry
Read: April 5, 2023
★★★☆☆
The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Read: January 16, 2022
★★★★★
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Author: Sean Carroll
Read: June 26, 2020
★★★☆☆
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Author: Isaac Asimov
Read: June 12, 2020
★★★★☆
Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse
Read: May 23, 2020
★★★★★
The Rust Programming Language
Author: Steve Klabnik
Read: May 2, 2020
★★★★☆
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
Read: February 2, 2020
★★★★☆
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil
Read: December 22, 2019
★★★☆☆
Plato: Euthyphro
Author: Plato
Read: December 13, 2019
★★★★☆
Meno (Hackett Classics)
Author: Plato
Read: December 13, 2019
★★★★☆
Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
Read: November 29, 2019
★★★★☆
Living Clojure
Author: Carin Meier
Read: October 8, 2019
★★★☆☆
The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Read: May 21, 2019
★★★★☆
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Author: Mary Beard
Read: May 16, 2019
★★★★☆
La cascade de glace: s'initier et se perfectioner
Author: Philippe Batoux
Read: February 8, 2019
★★★☆☆
Gödel's Proof
Author: Ernest Nagel
Read: February 8, 2019
★★★★☆
The Iliad
Author: Homer
Read: January 2, 2019
★★★★☆
What to Listen for in Music
Author: Aaron Copland
Read: December 19, 2018
★★★☆☆
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
Read: December 7, 2018
★★★☆☆
How to Listen to Jazz
Author: Ted Gioia
Read: November 11, 2018
★★★★☆
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Author: Herman Melville
Read: November 4, 2018
★★★★☆
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Read: August 5, 2018
★★★☆☆
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Read: July 2, 2018
★★★☆☆
Phaedo
Author: Plato
Read: June 14, 2018
★★★☆☆
Apology
Author: Plato
Read: June 7, 2018
★★★★☆
Inferno: Dual Language and New Verse Translation
Author: Dante Alighieri
Read: June 3, 2018
★★★★☆
The Prince
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Read: May 18, 2018
★★★☆☆
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Author: Douglas Adams
Read: May 18, 2018
★★★☆☆
Solaris
Author: Stanisław Lem
Read: May 9, 2018
★★★★☆
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Author: Robert Wright
Read: April 30, 2018
★★★☆☆
Rendez-vous avec Rama (Rama, #1)
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Read: April 15, 2018
★★★★☆
The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand
Read: April 4, 2018
★★★★☆
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Read: March 30, 2018
★★★★☆
Problems of Philosophy, The
Author: Bertrand Russell
Read: March 7, 2018
★★★★☆
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Read: March 3, 2018
★★☆☆☆
A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Read: February 21, 2018
★★★☆☆
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Read: February 20, 2018
★★★☆☆
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Read: February 17, 2018
★★★★★
The Complete Maus
Author: Art Spiegelman
Read: February 6, 2018
★★★★☆
Norse Mythology
Author: Neil Gaiman
Read: September 17, 2017
★★★☆☆
Ubik
Author: Philip K. Dick
Read: September 14, 2017
★★★★☆
Modern Classics the Mountains of My Life
Author: Walter Bonatti
Read: September 8, 2017
★★★☆☆
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Read: August 17, 2017
★★★★☆
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Read: July 24, 2017
★★★★☆
The Silmarillion
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Read: July 22, 2017
☆☆☆☆☆
The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Read: July 13, 2017
★★★★☆
The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★☆☆
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★☆☆
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Read: July 6, 2017
★★★☆☆
La Fille du train
Author: Paula Hawkins
Read: June 17, 2017
★☆☆☆☆
Don Giovanni
Author: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Read: June 2, 2017
★★★☆☆
Siddhartha
Author: Hermann Hesse
Read: May 10, 2017
★★☆☆☆
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Read: May 4, 2017
★★☆☆☆
The Quiet American
Author: Graham Greene
Read: March 29, 2017
★★★☆☆
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Read: February 21, 2017
★★★★☆
The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Read: February 17, 2017
★★★★☆
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Read: January 28, 2017
☆☆☆☆☆
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
Read: January 24, 2017
★★★☆☆
The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Read: January 23, 2017
☆☆☆☆☆
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Read: January 19, 2017
☆☆☆☆☆
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Read: January 3, 2017
☆☆☆☆☆
The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure
Author: Jason Fry
Read: August 3, 2016
★★☆☆☆
Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity
Author: John C. Baez
Read: June 13, 2016
★★★★☆
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
Author: James Rebanks
Read: June 5, 2016
★★★★★
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Read: May 22, 2016
★★★☆☆
Vertical Mind: Psychological Approaches for Optimal Rock Climbing
Author: Don McGrath
Read: May 1, 2016
★☆☆☆☆
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Read: April 19, 2016
★★★★☆
De aanslag : roman
Author: Harry Mulisch
Read: February 18, 2016
★★★★☆
JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
Author: Jon Duckett
Read: January 21, 2016
☆☆☆☆☆
Star Wars, Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes
Author: Jason Aaron
Read: January 12, 2016
★★★☆☆
Botchan
Author: Natsume Sōseki
Read: January 12, 2016
★★☆☆☆
Dune (Dune, #1)
Author: Frank Herbert
Read: December 24, 2015
★★★★☆
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Author: Miran Lipovača
Read: October 26, 2015
★★★★☆
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
Read: October 25, 2015
★★★★☆
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Samir Okasha
Read: October 25, 2015
★★★☆☆
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
Author: Jon Krakauer
Read: September 13, 2015
★★★★☆
The Metamorphosis
Author: Franz Kafka
Read: August 9, 2015
★★★★☆
Narcissus and Goldmund
Author: Hermann Hesse
Read: August 9, 2015
★★★☆☆
Eating Animals
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
Read: July 22, 2015
★★★★☆
Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)
Author: Mervyn Peake
Read: July 3, 2015
★★★★☆
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Read: January 2, 2015
★★★☆☆
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Read: November 23, 2014
★★★☆☆
Gloed
Author: Sándor Márai
Read: October 11, 2014
★★★☆☆
Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read: September 23, 2014
★★★★☆
The Cloudspotter's Guide
Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Read: July 30, 2014
★★★☆☆
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Author: Haruki Murakami
Read: July 5, 2014
★★☆☆☆
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Read: June 18, 2014
★★★★☆
The Third Man / The Fallen Idol
Author: Graham Greene
Read: May 27, 2014
★★★☆☆
Titus Groan
Author: Mervyn Peake
Read: May 19, 2014
★★★★★
The Spire
Author: William Golding
Read: December 30, 2013
★★★☆☆
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
Author: Pablo Neruda
Read: November 29, 2013
★★★★☆
Slaughterhouse-Five
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Read: November 7, 2013
★★★★☆
The Glass Bead Game
Author: Hermann Hesse
Read: September 23, 2013
★★★★☆
The Sun Also Rises
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Read: August 5, 2013
★★★☆☆
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Author: David Mitchell
Read: July 18, 2013
★★★☆☆
Bitter Lemons
Author: Lawrence Durrell
Read: July 2, 2013
★★★☆☆
Catch-22
Author: Joseph Heller
Read: May 27, 2013
★★★☆☆
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Read: May 4, 2013
★★★★☆
The Power and the Glory
Author: Graham Greene
Read: April 27, 2013
★★★★☆
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Read: April 17, 2013
★★★★☆
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author: Philip K. Dick
Read: March 26, 2013
★★★☆☆
Brideshead Revisited
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Read: February 19, 2013
★★★★★
Todo lo que podríamos haber sido tú y yo si no fuéramos tú y yo
Author: Albert Espinosa
Read: January 11, 2013
★★☆☆☆
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Read: December 27, 2012
★★★☆☆
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Read: December 17, 2012
★★★★☆
The Great Gatsby
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read: November 9, 2012
★★★★☆
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Read: November 3, 2012
★★☆☆☆
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Read: October 14, 2012
★★★★☆
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Read: October 7, 2012
★★★★☆
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Author: George R.R. Martin
Read: September 30, 2012
★★★★☆
The Trial
Author: Franz Kafka
Read: September 18, 2012
★★☆☆☆
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Author: Paolo Giordano
Read: September 3, 2012
★★☆☆☆
La sombra del viento (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #1)
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Read: August 22, 2012
★★★★☆
Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Read: July 12, 2012
★★★☆☆
Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami
Read: June 30, 2012
★★★☆☆
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Read: June 16, 2012
★★★★☆
To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Read: May 19, 2012
★★★☆☆
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Read: April 19, 2012
★★★★☆
Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Read: January 23, 2012
★★★☆☆
Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
Read: August 17, 2011
★★★☆☆
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Read: August 9, 2011
★★★★☆
Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Read: December 31, 2010
★★★★☆
1984
Author: George Orwell
Read: December 31, 2009
★★★★★