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
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