A (mostly) up-to-date book lists that I read, wanting, am reading, or finished reading.
See also: 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.
| title | author | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essay on Love | Alain de Botton | |
| Nietzsche and Philosophy | Gilles Deleuze | |
| The Gay Science | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Beyond The Pleasure Principle | Sigmund Freud | |
| The Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | |
| The Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | |
| Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Abelson and Sussman | |
| Man and His Symbols | Carl G. Jung |
to read.
| title | author | notes |
|---|---|---|
| A Treatise of Human Nature | David Hume | |
| The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things | A. W. Moore | |
| Being and Some Philosophers | Etienne Gilson | |
| The Phenomenology of Spirit | G. W. F. Hegel | |
| The World as Will and Representation | Arthur Schopenhauer | |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | |
| Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill | |
| Meditations on First Philosophy | René Descartes, French ed. | |
| Existentialism in Social Pedagogy | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| The Will To Believe | William James | |
| The Care of the Self | Michel Foucault | |
| Metaphysical myths, mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact Science | Michel Foucault | |
| Repetition | Kierkegaard | |
| On Certainty | Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
| The Conquest of Happiness | Bertrand Russell | html |
| Being and Time | Heidegger | |
| Pensees | Pascal | html |
| Being and Nothingness | Jean-Paul Sartre |
- The Birth of Tragedy
- The Will to Power
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Twilight of the Idols
- On The Genealogy of Morals
- Ecce Homo
- The Critique of Practical Reason
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
- The Fall
- The Rebel
- The First Man
- Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
non-fiction
| title | author | notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Work | Cal Newport | |
| Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | |
| Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture | Miguel Sicart | |
| Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire | Rebecca Henderson | |
| Principles | Ray Dalio | |
| Mindset | Dr. Carol S. Dweck | |
| The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | Richard P. Feynman | |
| Walden and Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | |
| Deep Sleep | Jade Wu | |
| Are We Spiritual Machines? | Ray Kurzweil | html |
fiction
| title | author |
|---|---|
| Recursion | Blake Crouch |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| Sea of Tranquility | Emily St. John Mandel |
| Oblivion | David Foster Wallace |
| The Uninhabitable Earth | Wallace-Weels |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Fall On Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
| Foundation series | Isaac Asimov |
| The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| Rejection | Tony Tulathimutte |
poetry
| title | author |
|---|---|
| Dog songs | Mary Oliver |
| Come Home To Yourself | Déjà Rae |
finished.
2024
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
- 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