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What I am reading or have read.

2025

Title Author(s) Status
The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writings Martin Luther (ed. William R. Russell) Reading
The Rise and Fall of American Growth Robert J. Gordon Reading
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism ed. Bernard McGinn Reading
Paradise Lost John Milton Reading
The History of Beyng Heidegger Partial, Done
Teachings of the Christian Mystics ed. Andrew Harvey Done
Confessions Augustine Done
Buddhist Scriptures ed. Donald Lopez Partial, Done
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Rene Girard Done
Designing Data-Intensive Applications Kleppmann Partial. Done
Against Nature Joris-Karl Huysmans Partial, Done
The Bible God (King James Version) Done
The Best American Essays 2025 ed. Jia Tolentino Partial, Done
Reading Genesis Marilynne Robinson Done
American Pastoral Philip Roth Done
Hebrew Myths Graves, Patai Done
Kant Marcus Willaschek Done
Submission Michael Houellebecq Done
White Noise Don DeLillo Done
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon Done
Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Done
The Death of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Done
The Schooldays of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Done
The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee Done
The Damned (Là-Bas) J. K. Huysman Done
East of Eden John Steinbeck Done
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames Thich Nhat Hanh Done
The Dialectics of Secularization Jurgen Habermas, Joseph Ratzinger Done
Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith Rene Girard, Gianni Vattimo, ed. Pierpaolo Antonello Done
The Iliad or the Poem of Force Simone Weil Done
Job: The Victim of His People Rene Girard Done
Battling to the End Rene Girard Done
Evolution and Conversion Rene Girard Done
Theorizing Myth Bruce Lincoln Done
New York Sketches E. B. White Done
The Horse, The Wheel, and Language David W. Anthony Done
Gilgamesh tr. Sophus Helle Done
Beowulf tr. Seamus Heaney Done
Inferno Dante Done
Aeneid Virgil Partial, Done
How We Became Human ed. Pierpaolo Antonello, Paul Gifford Done
Don't Believe Everything You Think Joseph Nguyen Done
Odyssey Homer Done
Iliad Homer Done
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche Sue Prideaux Done
How to Think Like an Anthropologist Matthew Engelke Partial, Done
Nietzsche in Italy Guy de Pourtalès Done
The Will to Power Nietzsche Done
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism Keiji Nishitani Done
The Scapegoat Rene Girard Done
Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari Partial, Done
The Gnostic Religion Hans Jonas Done
The New Leviathan's: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray Done
Poor Charlie's Almanack Charlie Munger Partial, Done
On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life Nietzsche Done
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air Kierkegaard Done
Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard Done
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings Nietzsche Partial, Done
Chip War Chris Miller Done
The Iliad Homer (tr. Wilson) Paused
Notes from the Undeground Fyodor Dostoevsky Partial, Done
Essays and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson Partial, Paused or Done
The Witness of Poetry Czesław Miłosz Done
The Meaninglessness of Meaning LRB Done
The Worldly Philosophers Heilbroner Done

2024

Title Author(s) Status
Taking Back Control? Wolfgang Streeck Partial, Done
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Done
Classics of American Literature D.H. Lawrence Done
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? Raja Shehadeh Done
The Daemon Knows Harold Bloom Partial, Done
Say It Well Terry Szuplat Done
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership Ronald Heifetz, etc Done
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem Robert Pippin Done
The Politics of Being Richard Wolin Partial, Done
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Done
Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Done
Autumn 2024 Liberties Journal Done
American Nietzsche Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Done
War Bob Woodward Done
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World René Girard Partial, Done
The Seduction of Unreason Richard Wolin Done
Leadership Without Easy Answers Ronald Heifetz Done
All Desire is a Desire for Being René Girard Partial, Done
Wherever You Go, There You Are Jon Kabat-Zinn Done
Violence and the Sacred René Girard Done
The Systems Bible John Gall Done
The Once and Future Liberal Mark Lilla Done
The Reckless Mind Mark Lilla Done
The Shipwrecked Mind Mark Lilla Done
Influence Robert Cialdini Partial, Done
Building Microservices Sam Newman Partial, Done
The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian ed. Robert Dobbin Partial, Done
A Short History of Decay E. M. Cioran Done
The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic Roger Woods Done, Partial
Cosmic Connections Charles Taylor Done, Partial
When the Clock Broke John Ganz Done
Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet Done
Sacrifice and Modern Thought ed. Julia Meszaros, Johannes Zachhuber Done, Partial
On Being a Pagan Alain de Benoist Done
The Sacred Conspiracy Georges Bataille Done
The Metaphysics of German Idealism Martin Heidegger Done
Pathmarks Martin Heidegger Done
Identity and Difference Martin Heidegger Done
Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson Done
The Heidegger Controversy ed. Richard Wolin Done
Parmenides Martin Heidegger Done
Four Seminars Martin Heidegger Done
Poetry, Language, Thought Martin Heidegger Done
Early Greek Thinking Martin Heidegger Done
Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies Guillaume Payen Done
Heraclitus Martin Heidegger Done
The Art and Thought of Heraclitus Charles H. Kahn Done
Basic Writings Martin Heidegger Done
American Philosophy: A Love Story John Kaag Done
Heraclitus Seminar Martin Heidegger, Eugen Fink Done
A History of Philosophy in America 1720-2000 Brucke Kuklick Done
Primed to Perform Lindsay McGregor, Neel Doshi Done
Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ Friedrich Nietzsche Done
Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche Done
The Elements of Style Strunk and White Done
On Writing Well William Zinser Done
A Philosophy of Walking Frédéric Gros Done
Traumatic Neuroses of War Abram Kardiner Done
The Culmination Robert Pippin Done
Being and Time Martin Heidegger Done
A Hitch in Time Christopher Hitchens Done
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger Charles B. Guignon (Editor) Done
Parapraxis Mag, Vol. 2 Hannah Zeavin, Alex Colston (Editors) Done
Essays and Reviews, 1959-2002 Bernard Williams Done
Proustian Uncertanties Saul Friedlander Done

2023

Title Author(s) Status
The Basic Writings of Nietzsche Nietzsche Done
Learning Domain Driven Design Vlad Khononov Done
From Monolith to Microservices Sam Newman Done
Palestinian Walks Rajah Shehadeh Done
Letters to my Palestinian Neighbors Yossi Klein Halevi Done
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century Scott Soames Done
Moby Dick Herman Melville Done
Parapraxis Mag, Vol. 1 Hannah Zeavin, Alex Colston (Editors) Done
The Times Adam Nagourney Done
Analytic Philosophy, An Anthology David Sosa, Aloysius Martininch Done
Post-Analytic Philosophy John Raichman, Cornel West Done
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy Philop Ivanhoe, Bryan van Norden Done
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu (Hackett) Done
Philosophy in History Rorty, Schneewind, Skinner Done
The Shadow of God Michael Rosen Done
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka Done
Russel, Idealism, and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy Peter Hylton Done
Orientalism Edward Said Done
Team of Teams Stanley McChrystal Done
Analysis of Analysis Tom Raysmith, Michael Beaney Done
A Companion to Analytic Philosophy David Sosa, Aloysius Martininch Partial, Done