A terrain of what flowed in. Time runs left to right; each ridge is a thread of interest, its height the books read that year. Watch the mind move — from the lone peak of adventure to the great swell of the canon, down through philosophy and McCarthy's grit. Tap a ridge or a name to study one thread.
by the numbers
what's next — the queue
Your to-read shelf isn't a continuation; it's a turn. By the 2-year lag, this is what your writing bends toward next.
Political theory / power ~20%
Hobbes · Carl Schmitt · Leo Strauss · René Girard · Wittgenstein. The canon of sovereignty, order & mimetic desire — the founder/operator's reading.
Classical foundations ~13%
The Iliad · The Aeneid · Paradise Lost · SPQR. Reaching under the American canon to the roots it rests on.
The maximalist doorstops ~37%
Gravity's Rainbow · 2666 · The Magic Mountain · Anna Karenina · Middlemarch · Les Misérables · Gass ×2. Canon-completion, the hard tier.
Spiritual / nature ~17%
Siddhartha · Bonhoeffer · The Snow Leopard · The Peregrine. The inner & the wild.
The tell is what's absent: zero poetry, zero McCarthy, zero Southern Gothic queued — the exact threads that fed your fiction. The reading is voting for the builder, not the novelist.