Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
The Cosmic Fragments, Heraclitus
Redburn, Herman Melville
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist, Orhan Pamuk
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
I cap it at 10 to keep it from getting out of hand. If I want to add a book I need to take one off.
Demon Haunted World isn't worth your time. Read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn instead (move on to Feyerabend and Lakatos if you're still interested).
The Hebrew Bible, translated with commentary by Robert Alter
The Gospels, translated by Sarah Ruden
The Longman abridged King James Bible
The New Testament, translated by David Bentley Hart
The Norton critical edition of the King James Bible
Paradise Lost, norton critical edition
Thus Spake Zarathustra, the translation by Michael Hulse coming out in September.
Human, All too Human, the translation by R Kevin Hill coming out in 2023.
The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater
The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce
The Emotional Construction of Morals by Jesse Prinz
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945, by Richard Overy
I don't keep reading lists. I tried, but I keep not following them and whatever.
I use it more as a place to note down books that interest me
Why? I just download them and keep them in a folder.
mind me asking if you've learned anything effective that you can sum up for us?
anything?
I read the Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged and I learnt that Ayn Rand likes the idea of two men wanting to frick her
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
The Cosmic Fragments, Heraclitus
Redburn, Herman Melville
Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist, Orhan Pamuk
Swann’s Way, Marcel Proust
I cap it at 10 to keep it from getting out of hand. If I want to add a book I need to take one off.
learned anything?
About managing reading lists?
I don’t know how to recommend stuff based on what you may read instead of what you actually read and liked
Okay here is what I read this year
delete everything
add greeks
500+ books in my Goodreads list which I'll probably never finish.
Protip: drop Hyperion. It will only get worse.
Skip Denial of Death unless you like perverse israeli ramblings
>me no like joo! joo bad! me no like joo! joo bad!
>t. plays with his anus and sniffs feces
Take a shit while you're high on shrooms and come back and tell me he's still wrong.
Demon Haunted World isn't worth your time. Read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn instead (move on to Feyerabend and Lakatos if you're still interested).
The Hebrew Bible, translated with commentary by Robert Alter
The Gospels, translated by Sarah Ruden
The Longman abridged King James Bible
The New Testament, translated by David Bentley Hart
The Norton critical edition of the King James Bible
Paradise Lost, norton critical edition
Thus Spake Zarathustra, the translation by Michael Hulse coming out in September.
Human, All too Human, the translation by R Kevin Hill coming out in 2023.
The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater
The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce
The Emotional Construction of Morals by Jesse Prinz
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945, by Richard Overy
I actually keep a list of all the books I have that I still need to read, and mark off when I started and ended them for the year
I don’t have a reading list, since I don’t read.