Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 649 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.
Phil Neel: Hinterland
A remarkable book: an American left-communist Marxist writes a class-based analysis of the current state of the United States. What is more remarkable: Neel has a proletarian background and knows the pain he is writing about. His prose is lucid, but not academic. Indeed: it burns with righteous rage.