Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Decided to join the Personal Challenges.
Planning to use this page going into 2025.

Buffets:
2025 Challenge Buffet
2024 Challenge Buffet
2023 Challenge Buffet
2022 Challenge Buffet

BINGOs
2025 BINGO Challenge
2024 BINGO Challenge
2023 BINGO Challenge
2022 BINGO Challenge

Personal Challenges
Books I Own
Beckett
Kafka
   Kafka Buddy Read: The Complete Stories (selections)
Borges
   Borges' Buddy Read: The Aleph and Other Stories

Books I Own

Physical
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
Atelierul/ The Studio
Art Deco: 1910 - 1939
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
Classics of the Foreign Film
Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse an exhibition catalogue from SFMOMA
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
L'Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism
Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory
Le Paysan de Paris
Seven Stories
The Stories of William Sansom
Walks through Lost Paris: A Journey into the Heart of Historic Paris
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Kindle, physical (progress)

Digital
(audible if not specified)
Autobiography of a Corpse on Kindle
The Book of Disquiet audible
Cat’s Cradle audible
Collected Fictions audible, PDF (progress)
The Complete Stories (Kafka) PDF (progress)
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity audible (progress)
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will audible
European Thought & Culture in the 20th Century audible (progress)
Georges Perec: A Life in Words on Kindle
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections audible
Italian Folktales audible
Man & Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life audible
The Man Without Qualities (complete) audible (progress)
The Master and Margarita audible (progress)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution audible
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind audible, PDF (progress)
A People's History of the United States audible (progress)
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings audible
Roadside Picnic audible (progress)
Satantango audible, PDF
The Science of Information: From Language to Black Holes audible
Selected Non-Fictions audible
Strange Pilgrims audible
Understanding Complexity audible (progress)
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
                aka Off The Map audible
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Kindle, physical (progress)

Free
* = priority
* The Arcades Project pdf free
Bleak House audible free
Dead Souls PDF Guerney translation
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life PDF free
Evolution and the Theory of Games PDF free
* New Science of Giambattista Vico on Kindle free
The Physicists audible free
Remembrance of Things Past: Vol 1, Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove audible free
Russian Fairy Tales on Kindle free
Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation': A Reader's Guide on Kindle free

2025
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Planned for 2025
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition physical [currently reading]
Black Water2 [progress only, currently reading]

2025 Buddy Read
October-December: Samuel Beckett:
Watt [currently reading]
Mercier and Camier on Kindle [currently reading]

Finished in 2025
✔ The Book of Sand
✔ Brodie's Report
✔ The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories
✔ A Dog of Flanders
✔ The Girl in the Tower
✔ In Praise of Darkness
✔ The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
✔ Murphy
✔ One, None and a Hundred Thousand
✔ The Tartar Steppe
✔ The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Basis of Morality only)
✔ Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

2026
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Planned for 2026
* At Swim-Two-Birds audible
Black Water2 (finish)
* Cat’s Cradle (pair with Islands of Abandonment)
* Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Felix Feneon,
                and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siecle
Galápagos audiobook
House of Leaves physical
* Islands of Abandonment audible (pair with Cat’s Cradle)
* Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930
On the Origin of Species audible with book
Petrushka: The Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre physical
* A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go
* The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant Garde, 1875-1905 physical
* Suspended Sentences iBook free download of eBook ePub
The Winter of the Witch audible and kindle

2026 Buddy Read
January-March: Don Quixote (two separate translations) audible
April: We audible
May-June: Frost, Correction, Wittgenstein’s Nephew
July: Hopscotch PDF
August: Solenoid

Beckett
Damned to Fame on Kindle
Unnamable
How It Is 1964, as Comment c'est, 1961
Nohow On 1989:
   Company 1979
   Ill Seen Ill Said 1981
   Worstward Ho 1983

Samuel Beckett Challenge:
All fiction: novels, novellas, and plays as available in English translations
Selected non-fiction as available in English

Fiction: Novels and novellas
(skipping) Dream of Fair to Middling Women written in 1932, published in 1992
(skipping) More Pricks Than Kicks 1934
✔ Murphy 1938, Beckett's French version 1947, 10/5/2025 ****
Watt written in 1945, but not published until 1953
Mercier and Camier written 1946, published 1970, English translation 1974
The Trilogy 1959
   ✔ Molloy 1951, English version 1955, read 1/20/2021 ****1/2
   ✔ Malone Dies 1956, Malone meurt 1951, read 3/28/2021 *****
    Unnamable 1958, L'innommable 1953
How It Is 1964, as Comment c'est, 1961
Nohow On 1989:
   Company 1979
   Ill Seen Ill Said 1981
   Worstward Ho 1983
   ✔ Stirrings Still 1988, read 7/8/2024 *****

Beckett's Plays
Beckett on Film includes all but Eleuthéria: A Play
Beckett on Film includes the following plays.
TOC:
   Waiting for Godot (running time: 2 hours)
   Not I (running time: 14 minutes)
   Rough for Theatre I (running time: 20 minutes)
   Ohio Impromptu (running time: 12 minutes)
   Krapp's Last Tape (running time: 58 minutes)
   What Where (running time: 12 minutes)
   Footfalls (running time: 28 minutes)
   Come and Go (running time: 8 minutes)
   Act Without Words I (running time: 16 minutes)
   Happy Days (running time: 1 hour 19 minutes)
   Catastrophe (running time: 7 minutes)
   Rough for Theatre II (running time: 30 minutes)
   Breath (running time: 45 seconds)
   That Time (running time: 20 minutes)
   Endgame (running time: 1 hour 24 minutes)
   Act Without Words II (running time: 11 minutes)
   A Piece of Monologue (running time: 20 minutes)
   Play (running time: 16 minutes)
   Rockaby (running time: 14 minutes)

Eleuthéria: A Play
Eh Joe

✔ Waiting for Godot (seen twice in person Milwaukee, SF; once on video)
✔ Not I (running time: 14 minutes)
✔ Krapp's Last Tape (running time: 58 minutes) [is Eh Joe supposed to be part of this?)
✔ Footfalls (running time: 28 minutes)
✔ Happy Days (running time: 1 hour 19 minutes)
✔ Catastrophe (running time: 7 minutes)
✔ Endgame (running time: 1 hour 24 minutes)
✔ Play (running time: 16 minutes)
✔ Rockaby (running time: 14 minutes)

Non-fiction: Essays, critiques, analyses, and dialogues
James Joyce/Finnegans Wake: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress 1929
Proust 1931
Three Dialogues 1949
Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment 1983

NOTE:
Regarding Unnamable
"The protagonist also claims authorship of the main characters in the two previous novels of the Trilogy and Beckett's earlier novels Murphy, Mercier and Camier, and Watt."

Franz Kafka Challenge:
All novels and short stories as available in English translations

Fiction: Novels
Amerika 1927
✔ The Castle 1926, read 3/2/2021 ****
The Trial 1925

Fiction: Short stories
The Complete Stories, see contents

Non-Fiction: Diaries and Letters
✔ Letter to My Father 5/22/2025 ****1/2

Duplicates: see contents
✔ Meditation 1913, (18 short prose poems), 12/24/2024 ***1/2
✔ The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories 6/8/2025 *****
The Great Wall of China and other Stories

Planned for 2027
Finish The Complete Stories
Amerika

Later
The Trial
non-fiction and letters

Duplicate Compilations

Meditation
✔ Children on the Country Road, aka
    • Children on the Highway
✔ Unmasking of a Confidence Man, aka
    • Exposing a City Slicker
✔ The Unexpected Stroll, aka
    • The Sudden Walk
    • Contemplation, A Sudden Stroll
✔ Resolutions, aka
    • Decisions
✔ Excursion to the Mountains, aka
    • Excursion into the Mountains<
    • The Outing in the Mountain
✔ A Bachelor’s Misfortune, aka
    • Bachelor's Ill Luck
    • The Bachelor's Unhappiness
✔ The Merchant, aka
    • The Tradesman
    • The Businessman
✔ Looking Out Absentmindedly, aka
    • Absent-minded Window-Gazing
    • Absently Gazing Out
✔ The Way Home
✔ The Passers-by, aka
    • The People Running By
✔ The Passenger, aka
    • On the Tram
✔ Clothes, aka
    • Frocks
✔ The Rejection
✔ Some Thoughts for Amateur Jockeys, aka
    • Reflections for Amateur Jockeys
    • Reflections of an Amateur Jockey
✔ Window onto the Street, aka
    • The Street Window
    • The Window Facing the Street
✔ The Wish to Become an Indian, aka
    • The Wish to Become a Red Indian
    • The Wish to Be an Indian
✔ The Trees
✔ Being Unhappy, aka
    • Unhappiness

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
✔ Conversation with the Worshiper
✔ Conversation with the Drunk
✔ Great Noise
✔ The Judgement
✔ Contemplation, a Sudden Stroll
✔ Children on the Highway
✔ Exposing a City Slicker
✔ Decisions
✔ The Outing in the Mountain
✔ The Bachelors Unhappiness
✔ The Businessman
✔ Absently Gazing Out
✔ The Way Home
✔ The People Running By
✔ The Passenger
✔ Frocks
✔ The rejection
✔ Reflections of an Amateur Jockey
✔ The Window Facing the Street
✔ The Wish To Be An Indian
✔ The Trees
✔ Unhappiness
✔ The Stoker (a fragment) (not in the complete works) 3/25/2025 ***
✔ Metamorphosis
The Country Doctor collections:
✔ • A New Lawyer
✔ • The Country Doctor
✔ • Up in the Gallery
✔ • An Ancient Manuscript
✔ • Before the Law
✔ • Jackals and Arabs
✔ • A visit to the Mine
✔ • The Next Village
✔ • An Imperial Message
✔ • The anxiety of the Head of Family
✔ • Eleven Sons
✔ • The Fratricide
✔ • A Dream
✔ • A Report for an Academy
✔ In the Penal Colony
✔ Notes by Joachim Neugroschel, translator

The Great Wall of China and other Stories
Longer Stories
    Investigations of a Dog
✔ The Burrow
    The Great Wall of China
    The Giant Mole

Short Stories and Fables
    The Hunter Gracchus
    The Married Couple
    My Neighbor
    A Common Confusion
    The Bridge
    The Bucket Rider
    A Crossbreed
    The Knock at the Manor Gate
    The City Coat of Arms
    The Silence of the Sirens
    Prometheus
    The Truth about Sancho Panza
    The Problem of Our Laws
    On Parables
    A Little Fable

Aphorisms
    "He"
    Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope, and the True Way (collection The Zürau Aphorisms, 109 entries from The Blue Octavo Notebooks)

Kafka: The Complete Stories

Two Introductory Parables
✔ Before the Law (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/28/2025 *****
✔ An Imperial Message (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/24/2025 ***1/2

The Longer Stories
    Description of a Struggle
    Wedding Preparations in the Country
✔ The Judgment 12/19/2024 ****
✔ The Metamorphosis 9/2/2023 *****
✔ In the Penal Colony 8/23/2024 *****
    The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]
    Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
    The Warden of the Tomb
✔ A Country Doctor (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/25/2025 ***1/2
    The Hunter Gracchus
    The Hunter Gracchus: A Fragment
    The Great Wall of China
    The News of the Building of the Wall: A Fragment
✔ A Report to an Academy (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 6/8/2025 ***** and 8/31/2025
    A Report to an Academy: Two Fragments
    The Refusal
✔ A Hunger Artist 9/23/2024 *****
    Investigations of a Dog
    A Little Woman
✔ The Burrow 10/24/2021 *****
    Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk

The Shorter Stories
✔ Children on a Country Road 12/20/2024 **1/2
✔ The Trees 12/24/2024 ***1/2
✔ Clothes 12/22/2024 ****
✔ Excursion into the Mountains 12/20/2024 ****
✔ Rejection 12/24/2024 ***
✔ The Street Window 12/24/2024 ****1/2
✔ The Tradesman 12/21/2024 ***
✔ Absent-minded Window-gazing 12/21/2024 ***
✔ The Way Home 12/22/2024 ****
✔ Passers-by 12/22/2024 ****
✔ On the Tram 12/22/2024 ***1/2
✔ Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys **1/2
✔ The Wish to Be a Red Indian 12/24/2024 ***
✔ Unhappiness 12/24/2024 *****
✔ Bachelor's Ill Luck 12/21/2024 ***
✔ Unmasking a Confidence Trickster 12/20/2024 ****
✔ Sudden Walk 12/19/2024 ****1/2
✔ Resolutions 12/20/2024 **** [aka Decisions]
✔ Dream (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/25/2025 ***
✔ Up in the Gallery (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/26/2025 ***
✔ A Fratricide (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/25/2025 **1/2
✔ The Next Village (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/22/2025 ***
✔ A Visit to a Mine (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/22/2025 ***1/2
✔ Jackals and Arabs (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/28/2025 ****
    The Bridge
    The Bucket Rider
✔ The New Advocate maybe (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/25/2025 ***
✔ An Old Manuscript (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 4/28/2025 ***1/2
    The Knock at the Manor Gate
✔ Eleven Sons (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation) 5/24/2025 ***1/2
    My Neighbor
    A Crossbreed [A Sport]
✔ The Cares of a Family Man (also in the Joachim Neugrosche translation as
    "The Anxiety of the Head of Family") 5/24/2025 *****
    A Common Confusion
    The Truth About Sancho Panza
    The Silence of the Sirens
    Prometheus
    The City Coat of Arms
    Poseidon
    Fellowship
    At Night
    The Problem of Our Laws
    The Conscription of Troops
    The Test
    The Vulture
    The Helmsman
    The Top
    A Little Fable
    Home-Coming
    First Sorrow
    The Departure
    Advocates
    The Married Couple
    Give it Up!
    On Parables

Jorges Luis Borges Challenge:
All prose, short stories, essays, and lectures as available in English translations

Fiction: Prose, short stories, and some essays
Book of Imaginary Beings 1957
Dreamtigers 1960, see contents
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, see contents
Collected Fictions Written 1935-83, compiled and published 1999
    A Universal History of Iniquity 1935, see contents
✔ Ficciones 1944, see contents, which contains:
✔ • The Garden of Forking Paths 1941, last read 12/14/2022 *****
✔ • Artificios 1944 , 10/29/2024 ****1/2
✔ The Aleph 1949, see contents 10/5/2023 *****
    The Maker 1960, which comprises Part I of Dreamtigers 1960, see contents
    Museum 1967 (not identical to the section Museum in Dreamtigers), see contents
✔ In Praise of Darkness 1969, see contents ****
✔  Brodie's Report 1970, see contents
✔ The Book of Sand 1975, see contents
✔ Shakespeare's Memory 1983, see contents

Non-fiction: Essays and lectures
Other Inquisitions 1952, contents
✔ This Craft of Verse published 1992 from 6 Norton Lectures delivered
     at Harvard University, Fall 1967 and Spring,1968. read 4/21/2022 *****
    1. The Riddle of Poetry
    2. The Metaphor
    3. The Telling of the Tale
    4. Word-Music and Translation
    5. Thought and Poetry
    6. A Poet's Creed
Seven Nights published 1980 (reprint 1984) from 7 lectures delivered
    at Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires between June and August 1977
    1. The Divine Comedy
    2. Nightmares
    3. The Thousand and One Nights
    4. Buddhism
    5. Poetry
    6. The Kabbalah
    7. Blindness
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature 1966 lecture notes
Selected Non-Fictions Written 1922-86, compiled and published 1999

Duplicate Compilations: Mostly Fiction, some rewrites
The Maker 1960 comprises Part I of Dreamtigers 1960, but not Part II,
    (see contents)
✔ A Personal Anthology 1961, read "El Tango" 11/26/2022 ****
    All stories and poetry are duplicated in other books except "El Tango"
     (translated here as The Tango). This is the only English translation of
    the poem, that I could find, though it may be in his poetry collections.
Labyrinths 1962 (see contents)
✔ • Stories 1-13 are from Ficciones 1944
✔ • Stories 14-23 are from The Aleph 1949
    • Essays are from Other Inquisitions 1952 (see contents) except
    The Argentine Writer and Tradition which is from Selected Non-Fictions
    • Parables are from The Maker 1960
The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969, contains a few stories also in The Aleph,
    some in other collections, some rewritten from earlier stories, and some
    entirely new (see contents). The translation was done with Borges.
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory 1975, translation by
    Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Selected Non-Fictions 1999, contains a subset of essays from Other Inquisitions, 1952
     (see contents)

Fiction: Poetry (for reference, not part of challenge
    because I'm not smart enough to tackle this)
Selected Poems, 1923-1967 1971, 375 pages, isbn 0 7139 0141 1
Selected Poems 1971

Notes on Translations
coming . . .

Finished
✔ Ficciones which includes:
    • The Garden of Forking Paths
    • Artificios
✔ The Aleph
✔ Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz in The Aleph and Other Stories 3/14/2023 ****
✔ The Other Death in The Aleph and Other Stories 2/27/2023 *****
✔ Shakespeare's Memory ***** 2024
✔ Labyrinths ***** (completed the fiction)

Planned for 2025
✔ In Praise of Darkness 2/7/2025 ****
Brodie's Report
✔ The Book of Sand 10/6/2025 ****

Borges Bingo
created by Alan

Borges: A Universal History of Iniquity 1935

Read this book too long ago to remember details. Need a reread.

Table of Contents
    Preface to the First Edition
    Preface to the 1954 Edition
    The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
    The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro
    The Widow Ching—Pirate
    Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
    The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
    The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette: Kôtsukéno Suké
    Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
✔  Man on Pink Corner (need to reread)
    Etcetera
    Index of Sources

Borges: Ficciones 1944

Table of Contents

The Garden of Forking Paths 1941
✔  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius 8/29/2022 *****
✔  The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition) ****1/2
✔  Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 9/5/2022 *****
✔  The Circular Ruins 9/7/2022 and 9/22/2025 *****
✔  The Lottery in Babylon 9/6/2022 and 9/19/2025 *****
✔  A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain 9/24/2023 (reread) ***** (one of my favorites)
✔  The Library of Babel 3/20/2022 ***** (one of my favorites)
✔  The Garden of Forking Paths 12/14/2022 ***** (read many times before)

Artificios 1944
✔  Funes the Memorious 9/28/2024 ****1/2
✔  The Shape of the Sword 10/18/2024 ***1/2 and 9/24/2025 *****
✔  Theme of the Traitor and the Hero 10/19/2024 ****1/2
✔  Death and the Compass (need to reread) 10/21/0224 ***1/2
✔  The Secret Miracle (need to reread) 10/23/2024 ****1/2
✔  Three Versions of Judas 10/28/2024 ***
✔  The End 10/28/2024 ***1/2 (references Martin Fierro)
✔  The Cult of the Phoenix 10/28/2024 ***1/2
✔  The South (references Martin Fierro and "The End") 10/29/2024 **** (Borges favorite of his stories)

Footnote:
From wikipedia regarding Borges' style in The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim:
"Style
Borges's mixing of the fictional and the real, which Jaime Alazraki calls a "Borgesian device," both imparts a real feeling to the fictional, and an unreal feeling to the real.[2] Also, the use of a summary within a summary, and the taking of those summaries and stripping them down to expose the same principle "are a form of expressing in the structure of the story the pantheistic idea that anything is all things."[2]

Naomi Lindstrom describes the reviewer of the detective story as "a typical Borges narrator".[3] At times he demonstrates great knowledge of detailed information, but at other times he cannot grasp the most basic concepts. His narrative is uncertain and inconstant. His confusion serves to emphasize the incomprehension of the main character of the fictitious book as he goes on his pilgrimage.[3]

Borges's use of an allegory to shed light on a detective story shows his use of religious doctrines for aesthetic value.[2]"

[2] Alazraki, Jaime (1971). Jorge Luis Borges. Columbia University Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-231-03283-8.
[3] Lindstrom, Naomi (1990). Jorge Luis Borges: A Study of the Short Fiction. G.K. Hall & Co. pp. 18–20, 22. ISBN 0-8057-8327-X.

Borges: The Aleph 1949

Table of Contents
✔ The Immortal, read many times ***** (probably my favorite)
✔ The Dead Man ***1/2 or **** first pub. 1946
✔ The Theologians ***1/2
✔ Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden ****
✔ A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz ****
✔ Emma Zunz (need to reread) ****
✔ The House of Asterion, read many times ***** (one of my favorites)
✔ The Other Death ***** and 2/23/2025 ****
✔ Deutsches Requiem 8/17/2023 **1/2
✔ Averroes' Search 8/18/2023 ***
✔ The Zahir 9/6/2022, 4/24/2023, ****1/2
✔ The Writing of the God (aka The God's Script) 8/20/2023 ***
✔ Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in his Labyrinth 9/20/2023 **** and 9/26/2025 ****
✔ The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths 9/20/2023 ****1/2 and 9/26/2025 ****1/2
✔ The Wait 8/20/2023 and 9/19/2025 *****
✔ The Man on the Threshold 9/26/2023 *** (didn't really get this one)
✔ The Aleph 10/9/2023 *****
✔ Afterword 10/9/2023 *****

Borges: Other Inquisitions 1952

Table of Contents:
    Introduction
    The Wall and the Books, also in Selected Non-Fictions and Labyrinths (need to reread)
    Pascal's Sphere, also in Selected Non-Fictions and Labyrinths
    The Flower of Coleridge
    The Dream of Coleridge, also in Selected Non-Fictions as The Dream of Coleridge
    Time and J. W. Dunne
    The Creation and P. H. Gosse
    Dr. Américo Castro is Alarmed
    A Note on Carriego
    Our Poor Individualism, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    Quevedo
    Partial Enchantments of the Quixote, also in Labyrinths
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Note on Walt Whitman
    Valéry as a Symbol, also in Labyrinths
    The Enigma of Edward FitzGerald, also in A Personal Anthology
    About Oscar Wilde, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    On Chesterton
    The First Wells
    The Biathanatos, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    Pascal
    The Meeting in a Dream
    The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
    Kafka and his Precursors, also in Selected Non-Fictions and Labyrinths
    Avatars of the Tortoise
    On the Cult of Books, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    The Nightingale of Keats
    The Mirror of the Enigmas, also in Labyrinths
    Two Books
    A Comment on August 23, 1944
    About William Beckford's Vathek
    About The Purple Land
    From Someone to Nobody, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    Forms of a Legend, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    From Allegories to Novels, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    The Innocence of Layamon, also in Selected Non-Fictions
    For Bernard Shaw, also in Labyrinths
    The Modesty of History
    New Refutation of Time, also in Selected Non-Fictions and Labyrinths
    Epilogue
    Index

Ha, your negotiation with Borges reminds me of whenever I try to calculate how much overlap there is between the short story collection of Tatyana Tolstaya I've just spotted and what I've read already. Lately I've taken the lazy route of taking in the new whilst rereading the old, as she's one of the few authors I don't mind rereading.

Klowey you have Borges lists. I am impressed! Looking forward ti see what you make of his writing.

A suggestion. . . List the table of contents for each book. When you have already read a story, you can say from which book, provide a cross reference.

Borges: Dreamtigers 1960

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I (comprises The Maker)
    To Leopoldo Lugones
✔ The Maker 9/6/2022 ****
    Dreamtigers
    Dialogue on a Dialogue
    Toenails
    The Draped Mirrors
    Argumentum Ornithologicum
    The Captive
    The Sham
    Delia Elena San Marco
    Dead Men's Dialogue
    The Plot
    A Problem
    A Yellow Rose
    The Witness (need to reread)
    Martin Fierro
    Mutations
    Parable of Cervantes and Don Quixote (need to reread)
    Paradiso, XXXI, 108
    Parable of the Palace
    Everything and Nothing
    Ragnarök
    Inferno, I, 32
✔ Borges and I 9/5/2022 *****
Part II
    Poem about Gifts
    The Hourglass
    The Game of Chess
    Mirrors
    Elvira de Alvear
    Susana Soca
    The Moon
    The Rain
    On the Effigy of a Captain in Cromwell's Armies
    To an Old Poet
    The Other Tiger
    Blind Pew
    Referring to a Ghost of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Odd
    Referring to the Death of Colonel Francisco Borges (1835-1874)
    In Memoriam: A. R.
    The Borges
    To Luis de Camoëns
    Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Odd
    Ode Composed in 1960
    Ariosto and the Arabs
    On Beginning the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar
    Luke XXIII
    Adrogué
    Ars Poetica
Museum
✔ On Rigor in Science, also in Collected Fictions 9/25/2025 ****1/2 under the title On Exactitude in Science
    Quatrain
    Limits
    The Poet Declares His Renown
    The Magnanimous Enemy
    The Regret of Heraclitus
Epilogue
Appendix: Some Facts in the Life of Jorge Luis Borges

Borges: Museum 1967

Table of Contents
✔ On Exactitude in Science 9/25/2025 ****1/2
✔ In Memoriam, J.F.K. 9/25/2025 ****
✔ Afterword 9/25/2025 *****

Borges: In Praise of Darkness 1969

Table of Contents
✔ Foreward 2/1/2025 *****
✔ The Ethnographer 2/1/2025 ***1/2
✔ Pedro Salvadores 2/7/2025 **** (see The Aleph and Other Stories)
✔ Legend 2/7/2025 ***1/2
✔ A Prayer 2/7/2025 ***
✔ His End and His Beginning 2/7/2025 **** and 9/25/2025 ***1/2

Borges: Brodie's Report 1970

Table of Contents
✔ Foreward 9/30/2025 ***
✔ The Interloper (may be the same as "The Intruder" from The Aleph and Other Stories)
            9/30/2025 ** (didn't like this one)
✔ Unworthy 9/30/2025 **1/2
✔ The Story of Rosendo Juarez (see "Rosendo's Tale" from The Aleph and Other Stories)
            9/30/2025 **1/2
✔ The Encounter 10/1/2025 ***
✔ Juan Murana 10/6/2025 ***
✔ The Elderly Lady 10/6/2025 ***1/2
✔ The Duel 10/7/2025 ***
✔ The Other Duel 10/7/2025 ***1/2
✔ Guayaquil 10/8/2025 ***1/2
✔ The Gospel According to Mark 10/8/2025 ****
✔ Brodie's Report 10/9/2025 ***

Borges: The Book of Sand 1975

Table of Contents
✔ The Other 9/22/2025 ****1/2
✔ Ulrikke 9/23/2025 ***
✔ The Congress 9/23/2025 ***1/2
✔ There Are More Things 9/29/2025 ****1/2
✔ The Sect of the Thirty 9/29/2025 **** (no free will)
✔ The Night of the Gifts 9/30/2025 ***
✔ The Mirror and the Mask 9/30/2025 ***
✔ "Undr" 10/5/2025 ***
✔ A Weary Man's Utopia 10/1/2025 ***1/2
✔ The Bribe 10/4/2025 ***
✔ Avelino Arredondo 10/6/2025 ***
✔ The Disk 10/6/2025 ***
✔ The Book of Sand, *****, read several times, one of my favorites
✔ Afterword 10/6/2025 ***

Borges: Shakespeare's Memory 1983

Table of Contents
✔ August 25, 1983 5/27/2024 *****
✔ Blue Tigers 11/3/2024 **** (on infinite series)
✔ The Rose of Paracelsus 11/5/2024 ****1/2 and 9/25/2025 ****
✔ Shakespeare's Memory 11/6/2024 and 9/17/2025 ***** (one of his best)

Borges: The Aleph and Other Stories 1933 1969

Some overlap with stories from other collections, as noted (TBD) and some of the stories may have a differently translated title, may be a rewrite of an earlier version, or may have a similar/same title but be an entirely different story. All but the Biographical Note were part of the translation that Borges made with Norman Thomas di Giovanni.

✔ The Aleph (see The Aleph) 10/9/2023 *****
Streetcorner Man (is this Man on Pink Corner?)
✔ The Approach to Mu'tasim (see The Garden of Forking Paths from Ficciones)
✔ The Circular Ruins (see The Garden of Forking Paths from Ficciones)
✔ Death and the Compass (see Artificios from Ficciones) 10/21/0224 ***1/2
✔ The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) (see The Aleph)
✔ The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths (see The Aleph) 9/20/2023 ***1/2
✔ The Dead Man (see The Aleph)
✔ The Other Death (see The Aleph) (prefer the translation in this book)
✔ Ibn Hakkan al Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth (see The Aleph) 9/20/2023 ***1/2
✔ The Man on the Threshold (see The Aleph) 9/26/2023 *** (didn't really get this one)
The Challenge
The Capture
✔ Borges and Myself (see Borges and I from Part I of Dreamtigers) *****
The Maker (see Part I of Dreamtigers)
The Intruder (may be the same as "The Interloper" from Brodie's Report)
The Immortals
The Meeting
Pedro Salvadores (see In Praise of Darkness) [compare ✔ Pedro Salvadores 2/7/2025 ****]
Rosendo's Tale (see "The Story of Rosendo Juarez" from: Brodie's Report)
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Commentaries
Biographical Note

Borges: Labyrinths 1962

Stories (also in Ficciones)
✔  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
✔  The Garden of Forking Paths
✔  The Lottery in Babylon
✔  Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
✔  The Circular Ruins
✔  The Library of Babel
✔  Funes the Memorious
✔  The Shape of the Sword
✔  Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
✔  Death and the Compass
✔  The Secret Miracle
✔  Three Versions of Judas
✔  The Sect of the Phoenix

Stories (also in The Aleph)
✔  The Immortal
✔  The Theologians
✔  Story of the Warrior and the Captive
✔  Emma Zunz
✔  The House of Asterion
✔  Deutsches Requiem
✔  Averroes' Search
✔  The Zahir
✔  The Waiting
✔  The Writing Of God

Essays (also in Other Inquisitions, unless noted)
    The Argentine Writer and Tradition (also in Discusión, 1932)
    The Wall and the Books
    The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
    Partial Magic in the Quixote
    Valéry as Symbol
    Kafka and His Precursors
    Avatars of the Tortoise (also in Discusión, 1932)
    The Mirror of Enigmas
    A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
    A New Refutation of Time

Parables (all parables are from The Maker)
    Inferno, I, 32
    Paradiso, XXXI, 108
    Ragnarök
    Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
    The Witness
    A Problem
✔  Borges and I
    Everything and Nothing

From a tweet.
https://x.com/BorgesJorgeL/status/186...

Jorge Luis Borges
1923 - Fervor of Buenos Aires (Poetry)
1924 - Inquisitions (Essay)
1925 - Moon in front (Poetry)
1926 - The size of my hope (Essay)
1928 - The language of the Argentines (Essay)
1929 - The San Martin notebook. (Poetry)
1930 - Evaristo Carriego (Essay)
1932 - Discussion (Essay)
1935 - Universal history of infamy (Stories)
1936 - History of Eternity (Essay)
1940 - Anthology of fantastic literature (Collaboration with Silvina Ocampo - Bioy Casares)
1941 - Artifices (1941) (Stories)
1941 - The Garden of Forking Paths. (Stories)
1942 - Six problems for Don Isidro Parodi. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1943 - The best detective stories I and II. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1944 - Fictions (Stories).
1946 - Two memorable fantasies. – H. Bustos Domec. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1946 - A model for death. – H. Bustos Domec. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1947 - New Refutation of Time. (Essay).
1949 - The Aleph (Stories).
1951 - Death and the Compass (Stories).
1952 - Other Inquisitions (Essay).
1953 – El Martín Fierro. (Collaboration with Margarita Guerrero).
1955 – Short and extraordinary stories. (Stories) (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1955 – The Paradise of Believers. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1955 – Sister Eloisa (Collaboration with Luisa Mercedes Levinson)
1955 – Leopoldo Lugones (Collaboration with Betina Edelberg)
1955 – The Orilleros. (Collaboration with Bioy Casares).
1957 – Handbook of fantastic zoology. (Collaboration with Margarita Guerrero).
1960 – The Maker (Poetry).
1960 - Book of Heaven and Hell (Collaboration with Adolfo Bioy Casares)
1965 - Introduction to English Literature (Collaboration with María Esther Vázquez)
1965 - For the six strings (Poetry)
1966 - Borges Professor (Classes). Martin Hadis. (2000)
1966 - Medieval Germanic Literatures (Collaboration with María Esther Vázquez)
1967 - Poetic art (Lectures)
1967 - Chronicles of Bustos Domecq (Collaboration with Adolfo Bioy Casares)
1967 - Introduction to North American literature (Collaboration with Estela Zemborain de Torres)
1967 - Fantastic literature (Conference)
1968 - The Book of Imaginary Beings (Collaboration with Margarita Guerrero)
1969 - The other, the same (Poetry)
1969 - In Praise of Shadows (Poetry)
1970 - Autobiography
1970 - The Brodie Report (Short stories)
1971 - The Congress (Story)
1972 - The gold of the tigers (Poetry)
1975 - The Book of Sand (Stories)
1975 - The Deep Rose (Poetry)
1975 - Prologue with a prologue of prologues (Compilation)
1976 - Story of the night (Poetry)
1976 - The Iron Coin (Poetry)
1976 - Book of dreams (Essay)
1976 - What is Buddhism (Collaboration with Alicia Jurado)
1977 - New stories by Bustos Domecq (Collaboration with Adolfo Bioy Casares)
1978 - Brief Anglo-Saxon Anthology (Collaboration with María Kodama)
1979 - Borges, oral (Lectures)
1980 - Seven Nights (Essay)
1981 - The figure (Poetry)
1982 - Nine Dantean Essays (Essay)
1983 - Shakespeare's Memory (Stories)
1985 - Atlas (Collaboration with Maria Kodama)
1985 - The conspirators (Poetry)
1986 - Captive Texts (Compilation)
1988 - Personal library. Prologues (Compilation)
1995 - Borges. Unpublished Works, Reviews and Translations (Compilation)
1996 - French Letters (Compilation)
1997 - Recovered texts 1919 - 1929 (Compilation)
1997 - Recovered texts 1931 - 1955 (Compilation)
1998 - In Dialogue I (Collaboration with Osvaldo Ferrari)
1998 - In Dialogue II (Collaboration with Osvaldo Ferrari)
1999 - Borges in Sur 1931-1980 (Compilation)
2000 - Critical Work I (Compilation)
2000 - Critical Work II (Compilation)
2000 - Texts published in "El Hogar" 1935-1958 (Compilation).

Hi Klowey. Reading literature of this stature often needs companionship. I am still planning to return to Borges in 2024. I will check up on you then to see if you are still interested in reading Borges together. . . . .I will be around on limited basis in 2023. The books of the 21st century are calling my name. cynda. . . .

Cynda wrote: "Hi Klowey. Reading literature of this stature often needs companionship. I am still planning to return to Borges in 2024. I will check up on you then to see if you are still interested in reading B..."

I know who you are. I love your reviews!
Borges is my favorite author. I have been wanting someone to discuss his work with for years. Yes, I am happy to buddy read him with you. And 2024 works very well for me.

Thanks Klowey :-) I look forward to reading Borges with you.

Cynda wrote: "Thanks Klowey :-) I look forward to reading Borges with you."

:-)