Reading List
What I am reading or have read.
2025
Title | Author(s) | Status |
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth | Robert J. Gordon | Paused |
The Bible | God (King James Version) | Paused |
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames | Thich Nhat Hanh | Reading |
Dissemination | Jacques Derrida | Reading |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |