Reading
This page is a monument and archive for the books I've read and for my personal quest of self-education.
Books listed were read in chronological order: the further down on the list, the later in the year I've read it. I only record the books I've read cover to cover: meaning no articles, blogposts, or essays (unless they were published in a book, say, as a collection), although if something was of incredible importance and sufficient length, I could see myself bending these rules. Books re-read will not be added a second time.
List of things I plan to read in the future: Should Read
Why do I read? I've written an article about it here: Why Read?
2024
Jean Paul Satre's No Exit, & 3 Other plays
Plato's Phaedrus
Leonard Kohen's Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers
Peter Thiel's Zero to One
Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing
James Clear's Atomic Habits
Nicholas Nasim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness
Cal Newport's Deep Work
Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters
Sebastian Junger's Tribe
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
Jack Kerouac's On The Road
Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun
Aldous Huxley's Island
George Mikes' How to be an Alien
C.S Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
Daniel Kahenmann's Thinking, Fast and Slow
Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
Theodore Kaczynski's Industrial Society and It's Future
Steven Wolfram's Idea Makers
Bahá’u’lláh's Hidden Words
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Sigmund Freud's The Question of Lay Analysis
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy
Sigmund Freud's Totem & Taboo
Virginia Woolf's Second Common Reader
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Saul Bellow's Seize The Day
Plato's The Symposium
Gile Tremlett's España: A Brief History
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Mark Tully's Ram Chandler's Story
William Blake's Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience
Herman Hesse's Siddharta
Gary Snyder's A Place in Space
Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems
George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
Gianni Sofri's Gandhi and India
George Orwell's 1984
Brian Castro's Birds of Passage
Nicholas Ganz & Elena Jotow's Burma: An Alternative Guide
Roger N. Lancaster's Life is Hard
Mark Kurlansky's The Basque History of the World
George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London
William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift
Carissa Veliz's Privacy is Power
Eric Fromm's Escape From Freedom
George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier
Sigmund Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Henry David Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Woods
Nasim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan
Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Alan Watt's The Way of Zen
Éric Vuillard's The Order of the Day
D. T. Suzuki's Zen Buddhism
Sigmund Freud's Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs
Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted
Benoit B. Mandelbrot's The Fractalist
Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country
Jacob Alan's The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Joi Ito and Jeff Howe's Whiplash
Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media
Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents
Venturi Robert's Learning from Las Vegas
MrBeast's How to Succeed at MrBeast Production
Heijnen & Brenner's Wicked Arts Assignments
2023
Douglass Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series
Nicholas Nassim Taleb's Antifragile
Jorge Luis Borges' Collection of Short Stories.
Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Frankz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Russel Brunson's Dot Com Secrets
Michael a D'ernico's Behind the Beat
Delia Owens' Where The Crawdads Sing
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
David Novak's Japanoise! Music at the Edge of Circulation
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Albert Einstein's The World as I See It
Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air
Robert Kayosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Ruud Noys' What is Anarchist Music?
Nick Blinko's Ghost in The Chess Machine
E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops
Rick Rubin's The Creative Act
Nicholas Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death
Albert Camus' The Outsider
Tim Ferris' Tools of Titans
Steve Martin's Born Standing Up
Tim Ferris' Four Hour Work Week
Harriguel Eugen's Zen in the Art of Archery
Tim Ferris' Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferris' Four Hour Body
David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish
Naval Ravikant's & Eric Jorgenson's The Navalmanack
Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters from a Stoic
Sri Swami Sivananda's Bhavad Gita
Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception
Bernard Shaw's Maxims for Revolutionaries
Richard Feynmann's Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman
Nicholas Nasim Taleb's Skin in The Game
2022 & Before
Peter Kroptokin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book
Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels' Communist Manifesto
Huey Newton's Revolutionary Suicide
Earth First's Direct Action Manual
Assata Shakur's Autobiography
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas