reading

currently

• Berger, John. (2015). Portraits: John Berger on Artists.

• Rosenberg, Marshall. (2015). Nonviolent Communication.

• Various. (2017). In the Shape of a Human Body I am Visiting the Earth.

• Bachelard, Gaston. (1938). The Psychoanalysis of Fire.

• Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1864). Notes from Underground.

• Wilson, Jason. (2011). Jorge Luis Borges.

• Benedict, Nora & Balderston, Daniel. (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges.

• Calvino, Italo. (1988). Six Memos for the Next Milennium.

recently finished

• Brennan, Teresa. (2004). The Transmission of Affect. (rated 4/5)

• Tiqqun. (2010). Introduction to Civil War. (rated 3/5)

• Nayler, Ray. (2023). Mountain in the Sea. (rated 3/5)

• Pollan, Michael. (2018). How to Change Your Mind. (rated 3/5)

• Jacobs, Jane. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (rated 4/5)

• Radin, Joanna. (2017). Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. (rated 4/5)

• Baynes, Cary. (1967). The I Ching or Book of Changes. (rated 2/5)

favorite all-time

• Steinbeck, John. (1952). East of Eden.

• Bachelard, Gaston. (1958). The Poetics of Space.

• Borges, Jorge Luis. (1944). Ficciones.

• Cooley, Peter. (1975). The Company of Strangers: Poems.

• Frege, Gottlob. (1884). The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number.

• Thompson, Hunter S. (1970). The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.

• Borges, Jorge Luis. (1968). This Craft of Verse.

• Joyce, James. (1922). Ulysses.

• Eco, Umberto. (2009). The Infinity of Lists.

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unread (queue)

• El-Mohtar, Amal. (2019). This Is How You Lose the Time War. (recommended by Dustin D.)

• Laing, R.D.. (1977). Conversations with Adam and Natasha.

• Waller-Bridge, Phoebe. (2019). Fleabag: The Scriptures. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Various. (2026). McSweeney's #81.

• Jacobs, Jane. (1969). The Economy of Cities.

• Mason, Ellsworth. (1959). The Critical Writings of James Joyce.

• Scott, Bonnie Kime. (1984). Joyce and Feminism.

• Hughes, Langston. (1930). Not Without Laughter.

• Watson, Arthur C. (1929). The Long Harpoon.

• Junger, Sebastian. (2016). Tribe.

• Levine, Amir. (2010). Attached. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Brosterman, Norman. (1997). Inventing Kindergarten. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Leader, Zachary. (2025). Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker.

• Joyce, James. (1951). Exiles.

• Dracher, Jacob. (1978). Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs.

• Gilbert, Stuart. (1966). Letters of James Joyce (Vol. 1-3).

• Wistawa, Szymborska. (1997). Nothing Twice.

• Donne, John. (1992). Poems of Love.

• Pynchon, Thomas. (2025). Shadow Ticket.

• Ryan, Kay. (2010). The Best of It.

• Neruda, Pablo. (1993). Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

• Whitman, Walt. (1982). Whitman: Poetry and Prose. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Bingham, Hiram. (1951). Lost City of the Incas.

• Nolan, Daniel. (2005). David Lewis.

• Heller, Steven. (2018). IBM - Graphic Design Guide From 1969 To 1987.

• Lewis, David K. (2001). On the Plurality of Worlds.

• Steinbeck, John. (1945). Cannery Row.

• Steinbeck, John. (1939). The Grapes of Wrath.

• Steinbeck, John. (1969). Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters.

• Noble, David E. (1993). Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddism. (recommended by Artem P.)

• Steinbeck, John. (1961). The Winter of Our Discontent.

• Kristof, Nicholas D. (2024). Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life. (recommended by Cynthia P.)

• Bechdel, Alison. (2025). Spent: A Comic Novel. (recommended by Catherine P.)

• Cooley, Peter. (2003). A Place Made of Starlight.

• McHugh, Roland. (1980). Annotations to Finnegans Wake.

• Cooley, Peter. (2009). Divine Margins.

• Solomon, Margaret C. (1969). Eternal Geomater: The Sexual Universe of Finnegans Wake.

• Cooley, Peter. (1983). Nightseasons.

• Cooley, Peter. (1998). Sacred Conversations.

• Cooley, Peter. (1992). The Astonished Hours.

• Cooley, Peter. (2021). The Room Where Summer Ends.

• McHugh, Roland. (1976). The Sigla of Finnegans Wake.

• Joyce, James. (1981). cartes de amor a nora barnacle.

• Joyce, James. (1959). Giacomo Joyce.

• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. (2004). Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Carpenter, Don. (1966). Hard Rain Falling. (recommended by Jack S.)

• Carson, Anne. (1998). Autobiography of Red. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Nelson, Maggie. (2009). Bluets. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Peters, Torrey. (2021). Detransition, Baby. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Monocle; Various. (2023). Fifty Ideas for a Better World. (recommended by Carrie N.)

• Sante, Lucy. (2024). I Heard Her Call My Name. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Rooney, Sally. (2024). Intermezzo. (recommended by Julian P.)

• McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. (2024). Manifesto. (recommended by Carrie N.)

• di Prima, Diane; Wade, Francesca; Lewis, Sophie. (1968). Revolutionary Letters. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Albers, Anni. (2001). Selected Writings on Design. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Delacroix, Eugene. (1853). The Journal of Eugene Delacroix. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Calloway, Colin. (2003). One Vast Winter Count.

• Blodgett, Omer W.. (1968). Design of Welded Structures.

• Lincoln, James F. Foundation. (2003). Procedure Handbook of Arc Welding.

• Woodcock, George. (1962). Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements.

• Searle, John R.. (1983). Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind. (recommended by Lee P.)

• Márquez, Gabriel García. (1967). One Hundred Years of Solitude.

• hooks, bell. (1999). All About Love. (recommended by Julian P.)

• Tufte, Virginia. (2006). Artful Sentences.

• Klaas, Brian. (2024). Fluke. (recommended by Catherine P.)

• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. (1973). Gulag Archipelago.

• Mangnall, Richmal. (1798). Mangnall's Historical Questions.

• Reed, Em. (2023). More Bugs.

• Kingsolver, Barbara. (2000). Prodigal Summer. (recommended by Amber W.)

• Krogerus, Mikael & Tschäppeler, Roman. (2011). The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking.

• Kingsolver, Barbara. (2009). The Lacuna. (recommended by Amber W.)

• Team, Monocle Editorial. (2020). The Monocle Companion Fifty Ideas Better Cities.

• Heilbroner, Robert L.. (1953). The Worldly Philosophers.

• NASA. (1972). XB-70 Aircraft Study Final Report.

• Gioia, Ted & Gleason, Ralph J. & Gleason, Toby. (2016). Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews.

• Egan, Kieran. (1997). The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.

• Searle, John R.. (2002). Consciousness and Language. (recommended by Lee P.)

• Hossenfelder, Sabine. (2018). Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray.

• Daumal, Rene. (1990). Pataphysical Essays.

• Woodcock, George. (1950). The Anarchist Prince: A Biographical Study of Peter Kropotkin.

• Various & Various. (2012). The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian.

• Taylor, John. (1948). African Rifles & Cartridges.

• Griffiths, Tom & Christian, Brian. (2016). Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. (recommended by Ari M.)

• Petzold, Charles. (2000). Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software. (recommended by Ari M.)

• Lovecraft, H.P.. (1930). Fungi from Yuggoth.

• Llinás, Rodolfo R.. (2001). I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. (recommended by Lee P.)

• Ellmann, Richard. (1959). James Joyce.

• Brown, Peter C.. (2014). Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.

• Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1968). The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms.

• Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1969). The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms.

• Knuth, Donald Ervin. (1973). The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching.

• Knuth, Donald Ervin. (2011). The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1.

• Hamming, Richard. (1997). The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn.

• Raymond, Eric S.. (2003). The Art of UNIX Programming.

• Piening, Jenny & Krogerus, Mikael & Tschäppeler, Roman & Earnhart, Philip. (2008). The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking.

• Barry, John M.. (2004). The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. (recommended by Cynthia P.)

• Knuth, Donald Ervin. (2009). The MMIX Supplement.

• Khaldun, Ibn. (1377). The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.

• Lorenzo, Mark Jones. (2017). The Paper Computer Unfolded.

• Covey, Stephen M. R.. (2006). The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything.

• Weber, Max. (1994). Weber: Political Writings.

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