Reading
Currently reading: The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
I try to maintain a healthy mix of fiction and non-fiction in the books I read, although I often tilt more toward one or the other at any given moment. My Hardcover (an independent GoodReads alternative) is available here.
In line with my interests in philosophy with a focus on Catholicism and politics, I tend to be drawn to works that address capitalism, existentialism, ontology, or morality in at least some respect.
I think the least developed area of my reading is contemporary fiction, especially non-American fiction. Although I've ventured out with works like Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, I still have a ways to go. My favorite contemporary work is probably Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tommorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
You can view my library categorized in the Dewey Decimal System here.
Right now my reading list (the books I have but have not read) is:
Biography
- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Economics
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
- The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
- Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian
- The Wealth of Nations Books IV–V by Adam Smith
Fiction
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- All My Sons by Arthur Miller
- Crime Novels of the 1960s by Geoffrey O'Brien
- Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Aeneid by Vergil
- Candide and Related Texts by Voltaire
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Germinal by Emile Zola
History
- The 9/11 Commission Report by the 9/11 Commission
- The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
- Josephus's The Jewish War by Martin Goodman
- The Quakers in the American Colonies by Rufus Jones
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660–1783 by A.T. Mahan
- Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Tom McFeat
- France and England in North America Volume II by Francis Parkman
- Turning Right by David Savage
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Law
- Writings by John Marshall
Philosophy
- The Politics by Aristotle
- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
- Difference and Repetition by Giles Deleuze
- Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
- "Race", Writing, and Difference by Henry Louis Gates
- The Literary Wittgenstein by John Gibson and Wolfham Huemer
- Godel, Escher, and Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Pragmatism and Other Essays by William James
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
- On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
Political Theory
- Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno
- On Revolution by Hannah Arendt
- The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
- The Promise of Politics by Hannah Arendt
- Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
- Anti-Oedipus by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
- Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
- A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by David Harvey
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
- Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke
- The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg
- Grundrisse by Karl Marx
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
- Democracy in America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism by Max Weber
Psychology
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
- An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski
Religion
- Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
- The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
- Christian Discourses, Etc by Soren Kierkegaard
- Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell