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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, Dirty Hands, The Flies, & The Respectful Prostitute

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

Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, The Decay of Lying, & Soul of a Man Under Socialism

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: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua

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


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: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online

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: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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