reading

currently

• Benedict, Nora & Balderston, Daniel. (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges.
• Bregman, Rutger. (2025). Moral Ambition.
• Kant, Immanuel. (1790). Critique of the Power of Judgment.

recently finished

• Thompson, Hunter S. (1995). Song of the Sausage Creature. (rated 4/5)
• Herbert, Frank. (1965). Dune. (rated 3/5)
• Sachs, Tom. (2023). Spaceships. (rated 3/5)
• Rapelli, Andrea. (2023). Porsche: The Legendary Models. (rated 2/5)
• Cowley, David. (2020). How We'd Talk if the English Had Won in 1066. (rated 4/5)
• Ginsberg, Allen. (2006). Collected Poems 1947-1997. (rated 4/5)
• Le Guin, Ursula K.. (1969). The Left Hand of Darkness. (rated 4/5)

favorite all-time

• 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)

• Bechdel, Alison. (2025). Spent: A Comic Novel. (recommended by Catherine P.)
• Various. (2025). McSweeney's #78.
• 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.)
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (1864). Notes from Underground.
• Calloway, Colin. (2003). One Vast Winter Count.
• Camus, Albert. (1955). The Myth of Sisyphus. (recommended by George W.)
• 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.
• Steinbeck, John. (1952). East of Eden. (recommended by Elizabeth B.)
• Klaas, Brian. (2024). Fluke. (recommended by Catherine P.)
• Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. (1973). Gulag Archipelago.
• Pahlka, Jennifer, Nitze, Marina. (2022). Hack Your Bureaucracy.
• 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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