antilibrary.

A (mostly) up-to-date book lists that I read, wanting, am reading, or finished reading. The digital version.

In essence, an antilibrary is a collection of unread books. It represents an ode to self that reminds you about topics that one wants to explore.

current.

• Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze
• The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond The Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
• The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman

to read.

philosophy

• A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
• The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things by A. W. Moore
• Being and Some Philosophers by Etienne Gilson
• The Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
• The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
• Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, French ed.
• Existentialism in Social Pedagogy by Søren Kierkegaard
• The Will To Believe by William James
• The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
• Metaphysical myths, mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Science by Michel Foucault
• Repetition by Kierkegaard
• On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
• Being and Time by Heidegger

Nietzsche

• The Birth of Tragedy
• The Will to Power
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Twilight of the Idols
• On The Genealogy of Morals
• Ecce Homo

Kant

• The Critique of Practical Reason
• Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Camus

• The Fall
• The Rebel
• The First Man
• Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

non-fiction

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
• Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture by Miguel Sicart
• Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire by Rebecca Henderson
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Mindset by Dr. Carol S. Dweck
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
• Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Deep Sleep by Jade Wu

fiction

• Recursion by Blake Crouch
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
• The Uninhabitable Earth by Wallace-Weels
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• The Overstory by Richard Powers

poetry

• Dog songs by Mary Oliver
• Come Home To Yourself by Déjà Rae

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finished.

2024

• Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
• Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard
• The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Søren Kierkegaard
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The end of the affair by Graham Greene
• The Little Book of Deep Learning by François Fleuret
• The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Web Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson
• 1984 by George Orwell

2023

• Why I Write by George Orwell
• Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
• Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
• In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World by Nate Anderson
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
• Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox
• The Republic by Plato
• Apology by Plato
• Symposium by Plato
• Pillow Thoughts IV by Courtney Peppernell
• Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson

2022

• Infinite Jest by DFW
• Dune series by Frank Herbert
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by Will Thorndike

2021

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
• Godfather and The Scilian by Mario Puzo
• 1984 by George Orwell