Completed Book Collection


This webpage is a dedicated archive for all the books that I've completed. Tracking books helps encourage me to continue reading throughout the year, and it also functions as a journal or intellectual diary.

I wrote a full-length article here detailed a bit more about "why I read".

I only include books that I read cover to cover - they must be fully completed before they are added. My definition of "book" is loose, but I'll record anything that I felt has substantial literary value and length.

The bolded books had a significant impact on me, either by virtue of their content or by the position in life I was in when I read them. Either way, I would recommend them to you.

If you notice any problems, if you read any books from my list, or if you want to send me some thoughts on anything below, email me at the address provided on my homepage. Thanks!

#Statistical Overview

Books read in 2025: 34

Books read in 2024: 84

Books read in 2023: 37

Books read in 2022: 5

#2025

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

Phillip Glass's Words Without Music

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Bruno Murani's Design as Art

James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni's A Conversation

Bruno Murani's Original Xerographies

M. C. Escher's Graphic Work

William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Ted Gioia's Music to Raise the Dead

Friedrich Nietzche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man

Malcolm X & Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

Arthur Schopenhaur's On The Suffering of the World

Werner Herzog's Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

Aristophanes' The Acharnians, The Clouds, and Lysistrata

Unknown Authors' The Owl & The Nightingale, Cleanness, and St Erkenwald

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

* Doug Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Joseph Campbell's The Hero With 1000 Faces

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

Scott Adams' How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Carl Jung's Man and his Symbols

Daniel J. Boorstin's The Image

* R. D. Laing's The Divided Self

Plato's The Republic (The Constitution)

Yukio Mishima's The Way of The Samurai - On Hagakure

Thomas J. Stanley's The Millionaire Next Door

Nicholas Nasim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness (for the second time)

Anthony Ocampo's The Latinos of Asia

Dan Charnas's Dilla Time

A. N. Hodge's The Story of Art

Peter Thiel's Zero to One (for the second time)

* Cal Newport's Deep Work (for the second time)

#2024

Plato's Phaedrus

Leonard Kohen's Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers

Peter Thiel's Zero to One

Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing

James Clear's Atomic Habits

Nicholas Nasim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness

Cal Newport's Deep Work

Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters

Sebastian Junger's Tribe

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist

Jack Kerouac's On The Road

Norbert Wiener's The Human Use of Human Beings

George Orwell's Animal Farm

Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

Aldous Huxley's Island

George Mikes' How to be an Alien

C.S Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

Daniel Kahenmann's Thinking, Fast and Slow

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

Theodore Kaczynski's Industrial Society and It's Future

Steven Wolfram's Idea Makers

Bahá’u’lláh's Hidden Words

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Revisited

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

*Sigmund Freud's The Question of Lay Analysis

Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

Sigmund Freud's Totem & Taboo

Virginia Woolf's Second Common Reader

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, The Decay of Lying, & Soul of a Man Under Socialism

Saul Bellow's Seize The Day

Plato's The Symposium

Gile Tremlett's España: A Brief History

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Mark Tully's Ram Chandler's Story

William Blake's Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience

Herman Hesse's Siddharta

Gary Snyder's A Place in Space

Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia

Gianni Sofri's Gandhi and India

George Orwell's 1984

Brian Castro's Birds of Passage

Nicholas Ganz & Elena Jotow's Burma: An Alternative Guide

Roger N. Lancaster's Life is Hard

Mark Kurlansky's The Basque History of the World

George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London

William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift

Carissa Veliz's Privacy is Power

Eric Fromm's Escape From Freedom

George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

Sigmund Freud's The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Henry David Thoreau's Walden, or Life in the Woods

*Nasim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan

Carl Gustav Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Alan Watt's The Way of Zen

Éric Vuillard's The Order of the Day

D. T. Suzuki's Zen Buddhism

Sigmund Freud's Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality

Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs

Susanna Kaysen Girl, Interrupted

Benoit B. Mandelbrot's The Fractalist

Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country

Jacob Alan's The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

Joi Ito and Jeff Howe's Whiplash

*Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its Discontents

Venturi Robert's Learning from Las Vegas

MrBeast's How to Succeed at MrBeast Production

Heijnen & Brenner's Wicked Arts Assignments

David Reinfurt's A New Program for Graphic Design

Eric Fromm's The Crisis of Psychoanalysis

Bertrand Russel's Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays

Paul Ford's Code, an Essay - Bloomberg Business Magazine

Sigmund Freud's The History of the Psychoanalytical Movement

Andy Kirkpatrick's World Englishes

Jeff Kinney's Diario de Greg 2

Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow

Chuck Palahniuk's Consider This

George Orwell's Coming Up For Air

#2023
Douglass Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series

Nicholas Nassim Taleb's Antifragile

Jorge Luis Borges' Collection of Short Stories.

Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Frankz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

Russel Brunson's Dot Com Secrets

Michael a D'ernico's Behind the Beat

Delia Owens' Where The Crawdads Sing

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

David Novak's Japanoise! Music at the Edge of Circulation

*Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

Albert Einstein's The World as I See It

Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air

Robert Kayosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Ruud Noys' What is Anarchist Music?

Nick Blinko's Ghost in The Chess Machine

E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops

Rick Rubin's The Creative Act

Nicholas Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death

Albert Camus' The Outsider

Tim Ferris'Tools of Titans

Steve Martin's Born Standing Up

*Tim Ferris' Four Hour Work Week

Harriguel Eugen's Zen in the Art of Archery

Tim Ferris' Tribe of Mentors

Tim Ferris' Four Hour Body

David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish

Naval Ravikant's & Eric Jorgenson's The Navalmanack

Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Sri Swami Sivananda's Bhavad Gita

Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception

Bernard Shaw's Maxims for Revolutionaries

Richard Feynmann's Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman

Nicholas Nasim Taleb's Skin in The Game

#2022 & Before
Peter Kroptokin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book

Karl Marx & Fredrich Engels' Communist Manifesto

Huey Newton's Revolutionary Suicide

Earth First's Direct Action Manual

Assata Shakur's Autobiography

Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas



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