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Books

This is a list of the books I've read since high school.

This is auto generated from a csv file. A python script looks up the wikipedia page for the book and author and converts it to json. Then the json is read to render this page.

Note: The script does it's best, but some books don't have articles or have ambiguous names so the links don't always go where they should. 🤷‍♂️

In progress:

177. Clean Code by Robert Martin

176. The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt

175. Men of Mathematics by E T Bell

174. The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

172. Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

162. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

161. Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Hans Ørberg

159. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Finished:

2023

178. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

173. The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

171. The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch

170. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

169. Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious by Carl Jung

168. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothefuss

167. Anam Cara by John O'Donohue

166. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

165. King Warrior Magician Lover by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

164. Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff

163. Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

160. Lectures on Ancient Philosophy by Manly P. Hall

158. Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

157. Dhammapada by Unknown

156. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

155. Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

154. The Masks of God Volume 1 - Primitive Mythology by Joseph Campbell

153. Self Control - Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan

2022

152. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

151. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

150. Atomic Habits by James Clear

149. The One Thing by Gary Keller

148. Asclepius: The Perfect Discourse of Hermes Trismegistus by Unknown

147. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

146. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

145. Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

144. Phaedo by Plato

143. Oresteia by Aeschylus

142. Early Greek Philosophy by Penguin Classics

141. The On Purpose Person by Kevin McCarthy

140. A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber

139. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

138. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

137. Faust Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

136. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson

135. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

134. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

133. Gorgias by Plato

132. The Golden Ass by Apuleius

131. What is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot

130. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

129. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

128. The Persians by Aeschylus

127. Alcibiades I by Plato

126. Island by Aldous Huxley

125. Mastery by Robert Greene

124. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

123. A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber

122. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

121. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

120. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

119. The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

118. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

117. Introduction to the Cabala: Tree of Life by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi

2021

116. The Feeling is the Secret by Neville Goddard

115. The Improvement of the Mind by Issac Watts

114. Kybalion by Three Initiates

113. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

112. How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

111. The Iliad by Homer

110. Meno by Plato

109. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

108. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

107. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

106. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

105. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

104. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

103. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

102. Popol Vuh by Unknown

101. Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse

100. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

99. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

98. The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles

97. The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown

96. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

2020

95. The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

94. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

93. The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

92. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

91. Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

90. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

89. Neuromancer by William Gibson

88. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

87. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

86. The Perl by John Steinbeck

85. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

84. The Short Stories of Dostoyevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky

83. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

82. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

81. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

80. Beowulf by Unknown

79. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

78. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

77. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

76. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

75. Candide by Voltaire

74. The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

73. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

72. No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton

71. Euthyphro by Plato

70. Apology by Plato

69. Crito by Plato

68. Phaedo by Plato

67. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

66. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

65. The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore

64. Deep Work by Cal Newport

63. How to Win at College by Cal Newport

62. So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

61. Mythology by Edith Hamilton

60. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

59. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

58. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

57. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

56. Night by Elie Wiesel

55. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

54. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

53. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

52. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

51. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

50. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

49. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

48. How To Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

47. The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

46. The Complete Works of HP Lovecraft by HP Lovecraft

45. The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

44. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

43. 1984 by George Orwell

42. A Little Book of Language by David Crystal

41. Wild Thoughts From Wild Places by David Quammen

40. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

39. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2019

38. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

37. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

36. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

35. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

34. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

33. Dune by Frank Herbert

32. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

31. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

30. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

29. The Heavenly Life by James Allen

28. The Way of Peace by James Allen

27. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

26. World War Z by Max Brooks

25. A Little History of The World by E.H. Gombrich

24. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

23. Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche

22. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

21. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

20. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

19. As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

18. The Secret History of The World by Mark Booth

17. Animal Farm by George Orwell

16. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

15. Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen

14. Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

13. Lord of The Flies by William Golding

12. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

11. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

9. The Odyssey by Homer

8. From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft

7. Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow

6. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

5. The Martian by Andy Weir

4. The Egg by Andy Weir

3. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

2. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

1. Artemis by Andy Weir