Bookshelf

2026 reads

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth - E.O. Wilson

The Social Conquest of Earth - E.O. Wilson

The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer

The Meaning of Human Existence - E.O. Wilson

On the Genealogy of Morality -Friedrich Nietzsche

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life - E.O. Wilson

Answer to Job - Carl Jung

Candide - Voltaire

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

Letters on the English - Voltaire

Treatise on Tolerance - Voltaire

Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann


2025 reads

Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare

Othello - Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre - Shakespeare

Richard II - Shakespeare

Richard III - Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare

The Tempest - Shakespeare

Timon of Athens - Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare

Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

The Two Gentleman of Verona - Shakespeare

The Two Noble Kinsmen - Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale - Shakespeare

The Lover’s Complaint - Shakespeare

The Passionate Pilgrim - Shakespeare

The Phoenix and the Turtle -Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece - Shakespeare

Venus and Adonis - Shakespeare

Henry VI Part I - Shakespeare

El Amor en los Tiempos de Cólera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Henry VI Part II - Shakespeare

Henry VI Part III - Shakespeare

Henry VIII - Shakespeare

King John - Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - Shakespeare

King Lear - Shakespeare

Coriolanus - Shakespeare

Cymbeline - Shakespeare

Hamlet - Shakespeare

As You Like It - Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well - Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare

Sonnets - Shakespeare

The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other - James Hollis

Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men - James Hollis

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama

Childhood and Society - Erik Erikson

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung

The Essential Jung - Carl Jung, selected and introduced by Anthony Storr

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Physics and Philosophy - The Revolution in Modern Science - Werner Heisenberg

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard P. Feynman

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Statistical Thermodynamics - Erwin Schrödinger

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory - Werner Heisenberg

Aura - Carlos Fuentes

The Principles of Statistical Mechanics - Richard C. Tolman

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

Mythos - Stephen Fry

James - Percival Everett

Understanding Human Nature - Alfred Adler

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human - Jonathan Gottschall

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud

Civilization and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud

The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down - Jonathan Gottschall

Poetics - Aristotle

The Eden Project - James Hollis

Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men - James Hollis

What Life Should Mean to You - Alfred Adler

The Essential Jung - Carl Jung, selected and introduced by Anthony Storr

Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton

Childhood and Society - Erik Erikson

The History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

The Castle - Franz Kafka

The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant


2024 reads

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker

Empire - Gore Vidal

The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

The Order of Things - Michel Foucault

A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories - Baron Ryan

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

I Want a Better Catastrophe - Andrew Boyd

Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory - George Gamow

United States: Essays 1952-1992 - Gore Vidal

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

The Value of a Whale - Adrienne Buller

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Vital Question - Nick Lane

Mastering Object Oriented Programming - Steven F. Lott

Make Your Own Way: An Individual’s Guide to Fulfillment - Matthew Dellaero

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory - Werner Heisenberg

Henry IV, Part I - Shakespeare

The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzche

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard P. Feynman

Henry IV, Part II - Shakespeare

Henry V - Shakespeare

Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico - Juan Villoro

The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare

Love’s Labor’s Lost - Shakespeare

Physics and Philosophy — The Revolution in Modern Science - Werner Heisenberg

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Measure for Measure - Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare


2023 reads

What is Life? - Erwin Schrödinger

Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

The Little Book on Common Sense Investing - John Bogle

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 - Stephen Stigler

Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Order of Things - Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

The Vital Question - Nick Lane

Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes - Kaye Thomas

The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth - E.O. Wilson

Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault

A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments - Roland Barthes

The Words - Jean-Paul Sartre

The 2020s, the Golden Age of Design and Redesign - David Houle and James Fathers

Gift From the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Eco-Phenomenology: A Return to the Earth Itself - Ted Toadvine and Charles Brown

Animal Liberation - Peter Singer

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk

Conserving Natural Values - Holmes Rolston III

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology - Hans Jonas

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology - Hans Jonas


2022 reads

The Elegant Universe - Brian Green

The Social Contract — Jean Jacques Rousseau

On Food and Cooking - Harold McGee

Ethics - Baruch Spinoza

Novum Organum - Francis Bacon

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts

A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume

The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith

Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard

On Liberty - John Stuart Mill

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Cosmic Landscape - Leonard Susskind

The Good Gut - Erica and Justin Sonneburg

On the Genealogy of Morality - Friedrich Nietzche

The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir

The Stranger - Albert Camus

The Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. Hegel

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

Critique of the Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant

Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzche

Logical Investigations - Edmund Husserl

Being and Time - Martin Heidegger

Cartesian Meditations - Edmund Husserl

Being and Nothingness - Jean Paul Sartre

Philisophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone de Beauvoir

The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development - Carl Boyer

Parmenides - Plato

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy


2021 reads

The Upside of Irrationality - Dan Ariely

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

Spirituality For the Skeptic: the Thoughtful Love For Life - Robert Solomon

Nudge - Richard Thaler

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - Dan Ariely

The Undiscovered Self - Carl Jung

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Thinking In Systems - Donella Meadows

Goodbye, Again - Jonny Sun

Homo Deus - Yuval Harari

Ishmael - Daniel Quinn

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates

On Writing Well - William Zinnser

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

The Hungry Brain -Stephan Guyenet

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way - Marcel Proust

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

From Darwin To Derrida - David Haig

Philosophy of Language - William Lycan

A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Salt, Sugar, Fat - Michael Moss

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery - Imre Lakatos

The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins

Apology - Plato

A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

A Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

How Not To Die -Dr. Michael Greger

Euthyphro - Plato

Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami

Educated - Tara Westover

Phaedo - Plato

Meno - Plato

Improv(e) Your Conversations - Patrick King

Symposium - Plato

The Book of Hours - Rainer Maria Rilke

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

The Words - Jean Paul Sartre

Republic - Plato

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Medium Raw - Anthony Bourdain

Noise -Daniel Kahneman

There There - Tommy Orange

Physics - Aristotle

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy


2020 reads

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America - Eliza Griswold

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind - Yuval Harari

Letters to a Young Poet - Rainier Maria Rilke

Meditations in an Emergency - Frank O’Hara

Man’s Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl

Between the World and Me - Tai-Nehisi Coates

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Exhalation - Ted Chiang

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn

I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong

A Lover’s Discourse - Roland Barthes