Goal 2026.2 - Read the following books

SUMMARY - Of the 13 books:

• 3 Finished (Camus, Kafka, Bronte)
• 3 Started/Partially finished (Melville, Hesse, Cao Xueqqin)
• 3 Have text, not started (Cervantes, Akutagawa, Dostoyevsky)
• 4 Still needing to aquire the text (Yi Sang, Goethe, Dante, Homer)

1. Yi Sang - The Wings + Crow's Eye View << this one is still proving hard to source. I might have to settle for something else by him
2. Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Faust, a tragedy in two parts. Have a version in German, but that doesn't actually help. Will acquire it eventually. 
3. Miguel de Cervantes - The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Acquired but have not started. 
4. Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen. Acquired but have not started. 
5. Albert Camus - The Stranger. DONE. I listened to it as an audiobook while driving and while crafting my dragon.
6. Cao Xueqin - Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone). I have realized the version I'm attempting to read is 4 VOLUMES long. I've put a pin in it 75% through volume 1. 
7. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights. DONE. I read half then listened to the rest as an audiobook while driving and while crafting my dragon.
8. Herman Melville - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. I've been starting and not finishing this book for years. It's my white whale, so to speak. So 45% done, again. Maybe this is the year.
9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment. Acquired but have not started. 
10. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy. Neither acquired nor started part 1: Inferno. I did read it as a teen many years ago. I did acquire (err, find in the museum that is my house) a version of part 2: Purgatorio. Also don't have part 3:  Paradiso
11. Hermann Hesse - Demian, the Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth 3/8th done. This is my current active read. Listening it as I drive, or do housework.
12. Homer - The Odyssey. Have not started. I have like 7 versions of this on my shelf, but not actually the translation I wish to read.
13. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis. DONE (in 2025)

PS: I also recently read the 3-BODY PROBLEM by Liu Cixin. And MONK & ROBOT by Becky Chambers. Both recomended.