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Challenging myself to read one book a week. 

So far I have completed the following books:

• The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World (2017), by Catherine Nixey. 

• I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2016), by Iain Reid. 

• The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (2023), by Harry Sidebottom

• Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001), by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

• Pox: Genius, Madness, And Mysteries Of Syphilis (2003), by Deb Hayden

• Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (2012) by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

• The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (2011), by Adrienne Mayor 

• The Inheritors (1955), by William Golding 

• The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick (2016), by Kyle Arnold

I also started but did not finish a few other books that I am either still in the process of reading or have shelved. 

Some splatterpunk novels I have completely abandoned (e.g., Gone to See the Riverman by Kristopher Triana, which felt... silly, controversial for the sake of controversy).

I am still in the process of reading:  

• How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (2010), by Adrian Goldsworthy

• Columbine (2009), by Dave Cullen  

• Boys in Zinc (1989), by Svetlana Alexievich 

• Magus: The Art of Magic in the Renaissance from Faustus to Agrippa (2023), by Anthony Grafton

• Horror in Architecture (2013) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 

Feel free to post recommendations! I am always interested in interesting books on history, philosophy, psychology...