Reading List
What I am reading or have read.
2025
| Title | Author(s) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Rise and Fall of American Growth | Robert J. Gordon | Paused |
| Writing and Difference | Jacques Derrida | Paused |
| The Bible | God (King James Version) | Reading |
| American Pastoral | Philip Roth | Reading |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Kleppmann | Reading |
| 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 |