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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.

titleauthornotes
Essay on LoveAlain de Botton
Nietzsche and PhilosophyGilles Deleuze
Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche
Beyond The Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud
The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
The Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel Kant
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsAbelson and Sussmanpdf
Man and His SymbolsCarl G. Jung

to read.

philosophy

titleauthornotes
A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of ThingsA. W. Moore
Being and Some PhilosophersEtienne Gilson
The Phenomenology of SpiritG. W. F. Hegel
The World as Will and RepresentationArthur Schopenhauer
The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli
UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill
Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes, French ed.
Existentialism in Social PedagogySøren Kierkegaard
The Will To BelieveWilliam James
The Care of the SelfMichel Foucault
Metaphysical myths, mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact ScienceMichel Foucault
RepetitionKierkegaard
On CertaintyLudwig Wittgenstein
The Conquest of HappinessBertrand Russellhtml
Being and TimeHeidegger
PenseesPascalhtml
Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre
Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgensteinpdf

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

titleauthornotes
Deep WorkCal Newport
Digital MinimalismCal Newport
Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational CultureMiguel Sicart
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on FireRebecca Henderson
PrinciplesRay Dalio
MindsetDr. Carol S. Dweck
The Pleasure of Finding Things OutRichard P. Feynman
Walden and Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
Deep SleepJade Wu
Are We Spiritual Machines?Ray Kurzweilhtml
Free to ChooseMilton Friedman
Seduction and BetrayalElizabeth Hardwicklink
A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, ConstructionChristopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angelquartz

fiction

titleauthor
RecursionBlake Crouch
Sea of TranquilityEmily St. John Mandel
OblivionDavid Foster Wallace
The Uninhabitable EarthWallace-Weels
The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
Fall On Your KneesAnn-Marie MacDonald
Foundation seriesIsaac Asimov
The Three-Body ProblemLiu Cixin
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
The OverstoryRichard Powers
RejectionTony Tulathimutte
Play It as It LaysJoan Didion

poetry

titleauthor
Dog songsMary Oliver
Come Home To YourselfDéjà Rae

finished.

2024

  • The Trial by Frank Kafka
  • 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
  • The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

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