My reading plan for next year is to reread books, either different translations of some of my favorites, uncensored versions, or completing collections I hadn't before. In the words of Nietzsche according to an article I found online, those books "that spoke to me", and according to the Walter Kaufmann translations I have, it's those "proved to me", which also makes sense.
This is the current plan anyway, ultimately the moment decides for itself...
As for this year's favorites:
I think the best fiction book I read this year was Auto Da Fe, which was a mad book about mad characters, and I wanted to write my thoughts on it at the time but as always I got carried away with other books and other things. Suffice to say I wouldn't recommend the book to everyone, and I don't mean that from some kind of elitist perspective, I feel it's really a crazy story and I can't believe anyone would write such a thing. Definitely not a book I think I could ever reread either.
Best nonfiction would probably be Rediscovering the Islamic Classics, which I raved about to people around me when I read it, and I'm looking forward to getting the Arabic translation when it comes out so I can share it around.
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