Books

Below is a non-exhaustive list of books I have read, loosely in the chronological order in which I started reading them (newest at the top).
A checked box denotes that I read the book from cover to cover; unchecked denotes I'm still working on them.

• [ ] Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality
• [ ] Porphyry, On Aristotle's Categories (Isagoge)
• [x] Aristotle, Categories
• [ ] The Cambridge Companion To Arabic Philosophy
• [ ] Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind
• [x] Toshihiko Izutsu, コスモスとアンチコスモス: 東洋哲学のために
• [x] Plato, Philebus
• [x] Plato, Protagoras (Hackett Classics)
• [x] 福岡 正信, 自然農法　わら一本の革命 (Japanese Edition)
• [x] Chris Smaje, "A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth"
• [x] Plato, Phaedo
• [ ] Plotinus, The Enneads
• [x] Plato, The Symposium
• [x] Plato, Parmenides
• [ ] Anonymous, The Upanishads
• [ ] Eric J. Hobsbawm, "The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848"
• [ ] David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
• [ ] Ovid, Metamorphoses
• [ ] Virgil, The Aeneid
• [x] Plato, Phaedrus
• [ ] Plato, Plato: Complete Works
• [x] Homer, The Iliad
• [x] Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
• [x] Toshihiko Izutsu, コーランを読む (1983年) (岩波セミナーブックス〈1〉)
• [x] William R. Catton Jr., Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
• [x] Richard Sylvester, I Hope You Die Soon: Words on Non-Duality
• [x] Sayaka Murata, コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
• [ ] Lucretius, The Way Things Are
• [ ] Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine
• [ ] Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
• [ ] Herbert Marks, "The English Bible, King James Version: The Old Testament (Vol. 1)"
• [ ] Vine Deloria Jr., The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Power of the Medicine Man
• [ ] Theocritus, Idylls
• [x] Dante Alighieri, Inferno
• [ ] Patrick Hastings, The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses
• [x] Virgil, The Georgics
• [ ] Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
• [ ] Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
• [ ] William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
• [ ] Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• [x] Lyn Alden, Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
• [x] Virgil, The Eclogues
• [x] Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
• [x] Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
• [x] Unknown, The Epic of Gilgamesh
• [x] Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
• [x] George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Hackett Classics)
• [x] William Shakespeare, Hamlet
• [x] Takehiko Ono, 経営×人材の超プロが教える人を選ぶ技術 (Japanese Edition)
• [x] J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
• [x] Dana K. White, Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff
• [x] Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille: The Lady of the Camellias
• [x] Samuel Beckett, Watt
• [x] Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
• [x] Bernardo Kastrup, "Why Materialism Is Baloney: How true skeptics know there is no death and fathom answers to life, the universe and everything"
• [x] Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus
• [x] Homer, The Odyssey
• [x] Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future
• [x] James Joyce, Ulysses
• [x] Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
• [x] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust, First Part"
• [x] László Krasznahorkai, Satantango
• [x] Tao Lin, "Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change"
• [x] Bill Walton, Back from the Dead
• [x] William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom!"
• [x] Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
• [x] William Gaddis, The Recognitions
• [x] Marcel Proust, "Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)"
• [x] Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
• [x] Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
• [x] John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
• [x] Robert Lanza, "Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death"
• [x] Jason Schwartz, John the Posthumous
• [x] Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap
• [x] Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas
• [x] Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
• [x] Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
• [x] Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
• [x] Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
• [x] Samuel Beckett, Molloy
• [x] Peter Seaton, The Son Master
• [x] Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
• [x] Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
• [x] John Ashbery, Some Trees
• [x] Garielle Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way
• [x] Claude Simon, The Flanders Road
• [x] E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World
• [x] Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
• [x] Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
• [x] John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath
• [x] Garielle Lutz, Assisted Living: Stories
• [x] Pierre Michon, Small Lives
• [x] Garielle Lutz, Partial List of People to Bleach
• [x] Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems
• [x] Gerald Murnane, Inland
• [x] Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• [x] Don DeLillo, Underworld
• [x] John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• [x] Joseph Heller, Catch-22
• [x] Samuel Beckett, Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
• [x] Eugene Marten, Firework
• [x] Kurt Vonnegut Jr., The Sirens of Titan
• [x] Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
• [x] Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
• [x] David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System
• [x] Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
• [x] Édouard Levé, Autoportrait
• [x] Édouard Levé, Suicide
• [x] Don DeLillo, White Noise
• [x] 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