Reading list
I don’t use GoodReads anymore, but here’s my profile anyway.
Entries beginning with a lambda (λ) hold significant personal meaning.
2025
- God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion by Norbert Wiener
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman.
- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.
- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino.
- Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.
2024
- (λ) The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han.
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand.
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie.
- Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview by Anthony Bourdain.
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati.
- (λ) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
- How To Live: A Life Of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell.
- Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran.
- (λ) The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.
- Threshold by Rob Doyle.
- Naked by David Sedaris.
2023
- (λ) If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino.
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh.
- Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai.
- (λ) Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien.
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott.
- The Trouble With Being Born by Emil Cioran.
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.
- Candide by Voltaire.
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann.
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
- (λ) Letters To a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
- A Pale View of The Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
- (λ) Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing & Life by Anne Lamott.
- (λ) Mere Dil, Mere Musafir by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.
- Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake.