antilibrary.
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 |
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Essay on Love | Alain de Botton | |
Nietzsche and Philosophy | Gilles Deleuze | |
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 | pdf |
Man and His Symbols | Carl G. Jung | |
to read.
title | author | notes |
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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 | |
Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein | pdf |
- 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 |
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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 |
Free to Choose | Milton Friedman | |
Seduction and Betrayal | Elizabeth Hardwick | link |
A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, Construction | Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel | quartz |
fiction
title | author |
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Recursion | Blake Crouch |
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 |
Play It as It Lays | Joan Didion |
poetry
title | author |
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Dog songs | Mary Oliver |
Come Home To Yourself | Déjà 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