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antilibrary.

A (mostly) up-to-date book lists that I read, wanting, am reading, or finished reading.

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    In essence, an antilibrary is a collection of unread books. It represents an ode to self that reminds you about topics that one wants to explore.

    evergreen books

    A list of book that remains forever in my bag, and I like the idea of reading it in perpetuity

    current.

    titleauthornotes
    The Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
    The Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel Kant
    Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
    Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsAbelson and Sussmanpdf
    Man and His SymbolsCarl G. Jung
    The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir
    Being and TimeMartin Heidegger[[thoughts/being#Heidegger’s Being and Time|notes]]
    The RebelAlbert Camus

    to read.

    philosophy and psychology

    reason: I have a few collections of books whose authors are somewhat related 1.

    titleauthornotes
    A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume
    The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of ThingsA. W. Moore
    Being and Some PhilosophersEtienne Gilson
    The Phenomenology of SpiritG. W. F. Hegel
    The World as Will and RepresentationArthur Schopenhauer
    UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill
    Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes, French ed.
    Existentialism in Social PedagogySøren Kierkegaard
    The Will To BelieveWilliam James
    The Care of the SelfMichel Foucault
    Metaphysical myths, mathematical Practice: The Ontology and Epistemology of the Exact ScienceJody Azzouni
    RepetitionKierkegaard
    On CertaintyLudwig Wittgenstein
    The Conquest of HappinessBertrand Russellhtml
    PenseesPascalhtml
    Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre
    Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgensteinpdf
    The Ego and The IdSigmund Freud
    A Thousand PlateausGiles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
    Anti-OedipusGiles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
    A Conflict of VisionsThomas Sowell
    Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 PalimpsestPeter W. Huber

    Nietzsche

    • The Will to Power
    • Thus Spoke Zarathustra
    • On The Genealogy of Morals
    • Ecce Homo

    Kant

    • The Critique of Practical Reason
    • Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Camus

    • The Fall
    • The First Man
    • Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

    non-fiction

    titleauthornotes
    Deep WorkCal Newport
    Digital MinimalismCal Newport
    Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational CultureMiguel Sicart
    Reimagining Capitalism in a World on FireRebecca Henderson
    PrinciplesRay Dalio
    MindsetDr. Carol S. Dweck
    The Pleasure of Finding Things OutRichard P. Feynman
    Walden and Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
    Deep SleepJade Wu
    Are We Spiritual Machines?Ray Kurzweilhtml
    Free to ChooseMilton Friedman
    Seduction and BetrayalElizabeth Hardwicklink
    A Pattern Language: Towns, Building, ConstructionChristopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angelquartz
    The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to LearnRichard Hamming
    Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of CivilizationDonald W.Braben
    Mediocracy: The Politics of the Extreme CentreAlain Deneault
    The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick Rubin
    The Notebook: A History of Thinking on PaperRoland Allen
    Trillion Dollar Baby: How Norway Beat the Oil Giants and Won a Lasting FortunePaul Cleary

    fiction

    titleauthor
    RecursionBlake Crouch
    Sea of TranquilityEmily St. John Mandel
    OblivionDavid Foster Wallace
    The Uninhabitable EarthWallace-Weels
    The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky
    The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
    Fall On Your KneesAnn-Marie MacDonald
    FoundationIsaac Asimov
    Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
    The OverstoryRichard Powers
    RejectionTony Tulathimutte
    Play It as It LaysJoan Didion
    Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
    Homage to CataloniaGeorge Orwell

    poetry

    titleauthor
    Dog songsMary Oliver
    Come Home To YourselfDéjà Rae

    finished.

    2025

    • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

    2024

    • Twilight of the Idols by Nietzsche
    • The Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche
    • The Trial by Frank Kafka
    • The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard Lewontin
    • Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
    • Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard
    • The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air by Søren Kierkegaard
    • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
    • The Stranger by Albert Camus
    • The metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    • The end of the affair by Graham Greene
    • The Little Book of Deep Learning by François Fleuret
    • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
    • The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
    • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
    • Beyond The Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
    • Essays in Love by Alain de Botton

    2023

    • Why I Write by George Orwell
    • Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Civilisation and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
    • Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke
    • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    • Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
    • In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World by Nate Anderson
    • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
    • Pretentiousness: Why it Matters by Dan Fox
    • The Republic by Plato
    • Apology by Plato
    • Symposium by Plato
    • Pillow Thoughts IV by Courtney Peppernell
    • Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson

    2022

    • Infinite Jest by DFW
    • Dune series by Frank Herbert
    • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
    • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
    • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by Will Thorndike

    2021

    • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal
    • The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy
    • Godfather and The Scilian by Mario Puzo
    • 1984 by George Orwell

    Remarque

    1. For example, Freud and Jung are not necessarily philosophers, but their work often sparks philosophical debates regarding to human psyche and social interactions. ↩

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