Bookshelf

What I'm reading, have read, and am queuing up.

Currently Reading

  • Introduction to Philosophy

    OpenStax

    Working through chapter by chapter with notes

    Reading

  • The Burnout Society

    Byung-Chul Han

    Core influence on Achievement Trap

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  • Escape from Freedom

    Erich Fromm

    Core influence on Achievement Trap

    Reading

  • Beginning Theory

    Peter Barry

    Literary theory

    Reading

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  • Never Enough

    Jennifer Breheny Wallace

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  • The Anxious Generation

    Jonathan Haidt

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  • One-Dimensional Man

    Herbert Marcuse

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  • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

    Alan Watts

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  • Simulacra and Simulation

    Jean Baudrillard

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  • The Power of Myth

    Joseph Campbell

    reread

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  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces

    Joseph Campbell

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  • The Hero's Journey

    Joseph Campbell

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  • The Human Condition

    Hannah Arendt

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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    Hannah Arendt

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Philosophy & Existentialism

  • Nausea

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    ★★★★★

  • Existentialism is a Humanism

    Jean-Paul Sartre

    ★★★★☆

  • At the Existentialist Café

    Sarah Bakewell

    ★★★★★

  • Irrational Man

    William Barrett

    ★★★★★

  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    Albert Camus

    ★★★★★

  • The Stranger

    Albert Camus

    ★★★★★

  • The Fall

    Albert Camus

    ★★★☆☆

  • The Plague

    Albert Camus

    ★★★☆☆

  • Fear and Trembling

    Søren Kierkegaard

    ★★★☆☆

  • The Denial of Death

    Ernest Becker

    ★★★★☆

  • The Outsider

    Colin Wilson

    ★★★☆☆

  • Sophie's World

    Jostein Gaarder

    ★★★★★

  • The Story of Philosophy

    James Garvey

    ★★★★☆

  • Straw Dogs

    John Gray

    ★★☆☆☆

  • Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

    Samir Okasha

    ★★★★☆

  • The Power of Myth

    Joseph Campbell

    ★★★★★

  • Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl

    ★★★★★

  • Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    ★★★★☆

Russian Literature

  • Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • Notes from Underground

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Double

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Gambler

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • The Gentle Spirit

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • White Nights

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★☆

  • The House of the Dead

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★☆

  • The Insulted and Humiliated

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    ★★★★★

  • Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    ★★★★☆

  • The Death of Ivan Ilych

    Leo Tolstoy

    ★★★★★

  • A Hero of Our Time

    Mikhail Lermontov

    ★★★☆☆

  • Eugene Onegin

    Alexander Pushkin

    ★★★★☆

  • Fathers and Sons

    Ivan Turgenev

    ★★★★★

Fiction

  • Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    ★★★★★

  • 1984

    George Orwell

    ★★★★★

  • Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    ★★★★☆

  • Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

    ★★★☆☆

  • The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka

    ★★★★☆

  • The Trial

    Franz Kafka

    ★★☆☆☆

  • No Longer Human

    Osamu Dazai

    ★★☆☆☆

  • The Catcher in the Rye

    J.D. Salinger

    ★★★★★

  • Waiting for Godot

    Samuel Beckett

    ★★★★★

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas

    ★★★★★

  • Kafka on the Shore

    Haruki Murakami

    ★★★★★

  • Norwegian Wood

    Haruki Murakami

    ★★★☆☆

  • 1Q84

    Haruki Murakami

    ★★★★☆

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    ★★★★☆

  • Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    ★★★★☆

  • East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    ★★★★☆

  • The Bell Jar

    Sylvia Plath

    ★★★★★

  • The Hearing Trumpet

    Leonora Carrington

    ★★★★☆

  • Circe

    Madeline Miller

    ★★☆☆☆

  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    Gabrielle Zevin

    ★★★★☆

  • The Midnight Library

    Matt Haig

    ★★★★☆

  • The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    ★★★★★

Social Theory & Politics

  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    Paulo Freire

    ★★★★★

  • Women, Race, & Class

    Angela Y. Davis

    ★★★★☆

  • Discourse on Colonialism

    Aimé Césaire

    ★★★★☆

  • We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    ★★★★☆

  • Requiem for the American Dream

    Noam Chomsky

    ★★★★☆

  • The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx

    ★★★★☆

  • Socialism: A Very Short Introduction

    Michael Newman

    ★★★☆☆

  • Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction

    Michael Freeden

    ★★★☆☆

  • The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction

    Martin Bunton

    ★★★★★

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel

    Jared Diamond

    ★★★★★

  • Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    ★★★☆☆

Literary Theory & Art

  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    Jonathan D. Culler

    ★★★★☆

  • Structuralism & Poststructuralism for Beginners

    Donald D. Palmer

    ★★★☆☆

  • Ways of Seeing

    John Berger

    ★★★★★

  • The Story of Art

    E.H. Gombrich

    ★★★★☆

  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor

    Thomas C. Foster

    ★★★★☆

Eastern Philosophy & Spirituality

  • The Way of Zen

    Alan W. Watts

    ★★★★★

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity

    Alan W. Watts

    ★★★★☆

  • Tao Te Ching

    Lao Tzu

    ★★★★★

  • The Tao of Pooh

    Benjamin Hoff

    ★★★☆☆

  • Being Peace

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    ★★★★★

  • Why Buddhism Is True

    Robert Wright

    ★★★☆☆

Psychology & Self

  • The Body Keeps the Score

    Bessel van der Kolk

    ★★★★★

  • Feeling Good

    David D. Burns

    ★★★★★

  • Eating Animals

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    ★★★★★

  • Dostoevsky in Love

    Alex Christofi

    ★★★★★

  • Educated

    Tara Westover

    ★☆☆☆☆

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi

    ★★★★★

Technology & Career

  • Designing Machine Learning Systems

    Chip Huyen

    ★★★★☆

  • The Manager's Path

    Camille Fournier

    ★★★★☆

  • Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    ★★★★★

  • Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    ★★☆☆☆

  • The Big Short

    Michael Lewis

    ★★★☆☆