List of books I’ve read since 2024-ish, ones near the top are more recent. I read a lot of random stuff, it being on this list doesn’t mean I think the book is good. Only that I finished it, or most of it before giving up.

  • Selected Poems, Bertolt Brecht translated by H. R. hays
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Weird book, did not finish it, has some really great ideas in nearly every chapter but the prose (and sometimes the ideas) were insufferable at times.
  • On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
  • Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
  • Artificial: A Love Story, Amy Kurzweil
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Burn Lake, Carrie Fountain
  • Auguries of Innocence, Patti Smith
  • The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
  • Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  • String Theory: Essays on Tennis, David Foster Wallace
  • Poems, Hermann Hesse
  • The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  • Foundation, Isaac Asimov
  • A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver
  • The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Stonewall Reader, New York Public Library
    • Historical anthology of stonewall, interesting for anyone wanting to know more about LGBTQ history.
  • Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, Alice Wong
  • Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Richard Hamming
    • Great book.
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
  • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, Ashley Shew
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
  • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Theres a reason everyone says this book is great.
  • The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai
    • Prefered this one over no longer human.
  • No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
  • Poems: 1962-2012, Louise Glück
    • Some really fantastic poems, made poetry click for me.
  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  • The Last Days of Roger Federer, Geoff Dyer
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
    • Great book over writting
  • Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
  • Just Kids, Patti Smith
    • Meandering, but in a good way.
  • This Is Water, David Foster Wallace
  • Stoner, John Williams
    • Maybe my favorite book, the prose is perfect, the themes are fantastic. Easy reccomend to anyone who likes literary fiction.
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green
  • Ariel, Sylvia Plath