Editions that matter: Mojaddedi's Rumi, never Coleman Barks. Frame's Montaigne over Screech. Khaleghi-Motlagh for the Shahnameh. Khanlari or Qazvini-Ghani for Hafez. Ross Benjamin's unexpurgated Kafka diaries. Curley's Spinoza. For the Sufi texts prefer the Ritter, ʿUsayran, Molé, Corbin, Riahi, Kadkani and Pourjavady editions; cheap reprints often corrupt the text.

Sourcing: many Persian books here are banned or out of print in Iran. Try Nashr-e Baran (Sweden), Khavaran (Paris), Mazda (California), Ketab Corp (Los Angeles), Pegah Books (Toronto) and scanned PDFs.

Print only: the e-reader breaks House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Unfortunates, Tree of Codes, Nox, Bottom's Dream, the Visual Editions Tristram Shandy, Un coup de dés, Glas and The Telephone Book. Infinite Jest, Hopscotch and Pale Fire read fine on the Boox.

Read before this log started:

Hedayat, The Blind Owl (kept as a re-read)
Najdi, Yuzpalangani ke ba man davideh-and
Ghasemi, Hamnavai-ye Shabaneh
Behrangi, Mahi-ye Siah-e Kuchulu
Beyzai, Marg-e Yazdgerd
Sōseki, Kokoro
Dazai, No Longer Human
Kafka, The Trial
Camus, The Stranger
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
Zweig, Chess Story
Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
Endō, Silence
Sabato, The Tunnel
Orwell, 1984
Laozi, Tao Te Ching
Levé, Autoportrait
DeLillo, Point Omega
Ellis, Less Than Zero
Houellebecq, Whatever
Bolaño, Distant Star and Last Evenings on Earth
Takimoto, Welcome to the NHK
Yeager, Amygdalatropolis
Honor Levy, My First Book
Clowes, Ghost World
Hesse, Siddhartha
McLuhan and Fiore, The Medium Is the Massage
Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo (only Meno stays)
Sophocles, the Oedipus plays (only The Bacchae stays)
Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl (off the audiobook track)

Nazar-bazi, the Persian theory of the erotic gaze:

A theory of the erotic gaze centuries older than Freud or Sartre. It lacks the hidden watcher of clinical voyeurism; the nearest Western term is scopophilia.

Ahmad Ghazali, سوانح العشاق. The founding treatise: beauty in a face as a showing-forth of the divine.
Ruzbihan Baqli, عبهرالعاشقین. Iltibas, the deliberate likeness between human and divine beauty.
Owhad al-Din Kermani and his shahed-bazi. The famous rebuke from Shams, telling him to look at the moon in the sky rather than in a basin of water, is traditionally attributed and not certain.
Hafez, the self-declared nazar-baz: در نظربازیِ ما بی‌خبران حیرانند
Saʿdi, Golestan, chapter five. Stories 10 and 20.
Nezami, Khosrow first seeing Shirin bathing. The closest to the Western setup of hidden watcher and unaware subject.
Jami, Yusuf and Zulaikha, the palace of mirrors