Books
Below are a list of books I have read (unless marked otherwise), loosely in the chronological order in which I finished reading them.
I used to track this via Goodreads, but I figured I might as well move this here.
- Plato, Protagoras (Hackett Classics)
- 福岡 正信, 自然農法 わら一本の革命 (Japanese Edition)
- Chris Smaje, "A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth"
- Plato, Phaedo
- Plotinus, The Enneads * Currently Reading
- Plato, The Symposium
- Plato, Parmenides
- Anonymous, The Upanishads * Currently Reading
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, "The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848" * Currently Reading
- David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity * Currently On Hold
- Ovid, Metamorphoses * Currently On Hold
- Virgil, The Aeneid * Currently On Hold
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Plato, Plato: Complete Works * Currently Reading
- Homer, The Iliad
- Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
- Toshihiko Izutsu, コーランを読む (1983年) (岩波セミナーブックス〈1〉)
- William R. Catton Jr., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
- Richard Sylvester, I Hope You Die Soon: Words on Non-Duality
- Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
- Lucretius, The Way Things Are * Currently On Hold
- Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine * Currently On Hold
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy * Currently On Hold
- Herbert Marks, "The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament (Vol. 1)" * Currently Reading
- Vine Deloria Jr., The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Power of the Medicine Man * Currently On Hold
- Theocritus, Idylls * Currently On Hold
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno
- Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses * Currently On Hold
- Virgil, The Georgics
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales * Currently On Hold
- Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages * Currently On Hold
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury * Currently On Hold
- Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York * Currently On Hold
- Lyn Alden, Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
- Virgil, The Eclogues
- Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
- Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
- Unknown, The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
- George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Hackett Classics)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Takehiko Ono, 経営×人材の超プロが教える人を選ぶ技術 (Japanese Edition)
- J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
- Dana K. White, Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
- Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
- Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
- Bernardo Kastrup, "Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe and everything"
- Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
- Homer, The Odyssey
- Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust, First Part"
- László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
- Tao Lin, "Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change"
- Bill Walton, Back from the Dead
- William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom!"
- Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
- William Gaddis, The Recognitions
- Marcel Proust, "Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)"
- Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
- Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
- John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
- Robert Lanza, "Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death"
- Jason Schwartz, John the Posthumous
- Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap
- Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas
- Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
- Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy
- Peter Seaton, The Son Master
- Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
- Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
- John Ashbery, Some Trees
- Garielle Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way
- Claude Simon, The Flanders Road
- E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World
- Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
- Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
- John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
- Garielle Lutz, Assisted Living: Stories
- Pierre Michon, Small Lives
- Garielle Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
- Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems
- Gerald Murnane, Inland
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Don DeLillo, Underworld
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
- Eugene Marten, Firework
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan
- Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
- Édouard Levé, Autoportrait
- Édouard Levé, Suicide
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Favorite Quotes
That first being became afraid; therefore, one becomes afraid when one is alone. Then he thought to himself: 'Of what should I be afraid, when there is no one but me?' So his fear left him, for what was he going to be afraid of? One is, after all, afraid of another.
- Upanisads (trans. Patrick Olivelle)
So I said, "What do you mean, Diotima? Is Love ugly, then, and bad?"
But she said, "Watch your tongue! Do you erally think that, if a thing is not beautiful, it has to be ugly?"
"I certainly do."
"And if a thing's not wise, it's ignorant? Or haven't you found out yet that there's something in between wisdom and ignorance?"
"What's that?"
"It's judging things correctly without being able to give a reason. Surely you see that this is not the same as knowing - for how could knowledge be unreasoning? And it's not ignorance either - for how could what hits the truth be ignorance? Correct judgement, of course, has this character: it is in between understanding and ignorance."
- Plato, Symposium