the antilibrary:

zero, charles seife

sapiens, yuval

Live Not By Lies, 1974 essay by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

chimera, john barth

exodus

russian, dostoevsky, tolstoy

james baldwin

eric's important books

endless frontier vannevar bush

Childhood's End, arthur c. clarke

solaris, Stanisław Lem

shakespeare, othello, etc, arkangel audio, orson welles, http://shakespeare.mit.edu/index.html

ovid, tiresias

george orwell, aldous huxley

walden

fencing, aldo nadi

The Black Swan, taleb

the kalevala

shattered sword: midway

ancient war history

atlas shrugged

objectivism, yaron brook, leonard peikoff

love and math, frenkel

short stories in japanese

scifi: foundation, hyperion, dune, greg egan

zero to one

selfish gene

permanent record snowden

Alexis de Tocqueville

italo calvino

paradise lost

books on chess

feynman lectures, dirac lectures

the road to reality, roger penrose

books on war, difficult situations (re: the plague)

morning star, knausgaard

The Rings of Saturn, sebald

joan didion

dialogue, galileo (audiobook, keating)

Less Than One: Selected Essays. 1986. By Joseph Brodsky

outlive, attia

virtue of selfishness, rand

gk chesterton

Black Rednecks and White Liberals, sowell

homily: solemnity of the ascension of our lord, paul vi

treatise on painting, da vinci

meditations, marcus aurelius

mathematician's apology, hardy

Narcissus and Goldmund, Hesse

up next

ingres, pach

reading

the artist's way, julia cameron

nurtured by love, suzuki

the art of clear thinking, rudolf flesch

2024

lecture: Ten O'Clock, Whistler

lecture: discourses on art, reynolds

2023

gammell's essays

poem: beauty, cyprian norwid

letter to artists, pope john paul II

lecture: on colouring, opie

training of the memory in art, lecoq

essay: art and revolution, ingbretson

dennis miller bunker, gammell

twilight of painting, gammell

the boston painters, gammell

2022

Velasquez, R. A. M. Stevenson

The Classic Point of View, Six Lectures on Painting, Kenyon Cox

Life in the Studio, Nancy Hale

the painting of modern life, t.j. clark

shop talk of degas, r.h. ives gammell

the old man and the sea, ernest hemingway

the dharma bums, jack kerouac

the sun also rises, ernest hemingway

howl and other poems, allen ginsberg

letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke☆

a moveable feast, ernest hemingway☆

the little book of cosmology, lyman page

2021

beowulf, tr. burton raffel (reread)☆

the plague, albert camus

leave society, tao lin

hiroshima notes, kenzaburo oe

Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose

territory of light, yuko tsushima

My Struggle, Book 5, Karl Ove Knausgaard

the elephant vanishes, haruki murakami

book of laughter and forgetting, milan kundera

The Mathematician's Lament, Paul Lockhart

7 1/2 lessons about the brain, lisa feldman barrett

permutation city, greg egan

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant, Nick Bostrom

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence, Hans Moravec

Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco

2020

norwegian wood (reread)

ikigai, ken mogi

madness of crowds, douglas murray☆

Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin☆

blindness, saramago☆

Lying, Sam Harris

Free Will, Sam Harris

my struggle, book 4, karl ove knausgaard

the true believer, eric hoffer

seize the day, saul bellow

the sense of an ending, julian barnes

ms ice sandwich, mieko kawakami

a well-kept life, hoshi shinichi

dubliners, james joyce

hardboiled & hard luck, banana yoshimoto

my struggle, book 3, karl ove knausgaard

The Nightmare That Is a Reality, Arthur Koestler

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences, Eugene Wigner

Existentialism is a Humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre

Ecclesiastes

2019

brief encounters, dick cavett

terra incognita, spring in fialta and the doorbell, vladimir nabokov

the emissary, yoko tawada

convenience store woman, sayaka murata

My Struggle Book 2, karl ove knausgaard

what is the what, david eggers

moshi moshi, shimokitazawa, banana yoshimoto

my struggle, book 1, karl ove knausgaard☆

what purpose did i serve in your life, marie calloway☆

pinball, 1973, haruki murakami

hear the wind sing, haruki murakami

kitchen, banana yoshimoto☆

middlesex, jeffrey eugenides☆

2018

the book of tokyo, various, translated

shoplifting from american apparel, tao lin

the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck

hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, haruki murakami, tr. alfred birnbaum

the optimist's daughter, eudora welty

foundation, isaac asimov

everything is illuminated, jonathan safran foer

a brief history of time, stephen hawking☆

the known world, edward p. jones☆

the metamorphosis, franz kafka

the stranger, albert camus

the human stain, philip roth

richard yates, tao lin

2017

blood meridian, cormac mcarthy

bed, tao lin

breakfast at tiffany's, truman capote

housekeeping, marilynne robinson

the woman warrior, maxine hong kingston

the bluest eye, toni morrison

the beauty of history, viivi luik

swing time, zadie smith☆

lost in the funhouse, john barth☆

after art, david joselit

franny and zooey, j.d. salinger

on the road, jack kerouac

lolita, vladimir nabokov

wise blood, flannery o’connor

black boy, richard wright☆

earlier, memorable

the crying of lot 49, thomas pynchon

the virgin suicides, jeffrey eugenides

norwegian wood, haruki murakami

the marriage plot, jeffrey eugenides☆

the lord of the rings trilogy, jrr tolkein☆

the hobbit, jrr tolkein☆

the silmarillion, jrr tolkein☆

the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy books, douglas adams☆

le morte d'arthur, thomas malory

the fountainhead, ayn rand

Movies to remember

Total Love (Mashehu Totali)

on the shelf

the bible

war and peace, tolstoy

on the aesthetic education of man, friedrich schiller

Breath, James Nestor

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, heying & weinstein

My Struggle, Book 6, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Art in Theory 1900-2000, Charles Harrison, Paul Wood (35%) - The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance. - da Vinci

leaves of grass, walt whitman

on the origin of species, darwin

gravity's rainbow, thomas pynchon

anna karenina (finished part 2)

the fourth turning, strauss & howe

ボッコちゃん, 星新一

the kalevala, elias lönnrot tr. keith bosley

the art of computer programming vol 1, donald knuth

神様、川上弘美