Welcome to the Bookshelf.

Below are books I’ve either:

  1. read

  2. wanted to read

  3. or found interesting but haven’t gotten around to (at least!) skimming it

Bookshelf

  • Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • Sculpting in Time - Andrei Tarkovsky

  • The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Basho

  • Swann's Way - Marcel Proust

  • Blindsight - Peter Watts

  • Independent People - Halldor Laxness

  • Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

  • Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey

  • Autumn Sonata - Georg Trakl

  • The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan

  • The End - Lemony Snicket

  • Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges

  • Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown

  • Hyperion - Dan Simmons

  • Warbreaker - Brandon Sanderson

  • The Silver Chair - CS Lewis

  • Crossing to Safety - Wallace Stegner

  • The Ice Palace - Tarjei Vesaas

  • Twenty Love Poems - Pablo Neruda

  • Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe

  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

  • Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov

  • The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

  • Unfinished Tales - JRR Tolkien

  • Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

  • Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes

  • The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

  • The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien

  • My Struggle, Book 2 - Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

  • The Revolt of the Public - Martin Gurri

  • I Burned at the Feast - Arseny Tarkovsky

  • The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgaard

  • Pan - Knut Hamsun

  • House of Rain - Craig Childs

  • Dolly - Dolly Parton

  • Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

  • Julien's Primer of Drug Action - Various

  • Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language - David W. Anthony

  • Njal's Saga

  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

  • Solanin - Inio Asano

  • On the Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The Last Wolf / Herman - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

  • Trade is Not a Four-Letter Word - Fred Hochberg

  • Leave Society - Tao Lin

  • Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna

  • Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard

  • Selected Poems and Fragments - Friedrich Holderlin

  • Essays in Idleness and Hojoki - Kenko Yoshida

  • Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov

  • Naked Economics - Charles Wheelan

  • The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The Iliad - Homer

  • Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology - Various

  • Zero to One - Peter Thiel

  • String Theory - David Foster Wallace

  • Upstream - Mary Oliver

  • No Time to Spare - Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Always Coming Home - Ursula K. Le Guin

  • How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan

  • A Desert Harvest - Bruce Berger

  • History Has Begun - Bruno Macaes

  • Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky