This log documents the books and other written materials I have read, along with the timestamps of reading durations.
Reading Completed
| Start | Finish | Title | Notes | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-??-?? | 2018-??-?? | The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon | |
| 2018-??-?? | 2018-??-?? | The Broom of the System | David Foster Wallace | |
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | The Human Use of Human Beings | Norbert Weiner | |
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | Either/Or | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | The Bhagavad Gita | ||
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | Discourse on the Method | Rene Descartes | |
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | Inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| 2019-??-?? | 2019-??-?? | Ulysses | James Joyce | |
| 2020-??-?? | 2020-??-?? | Love and Will | Rollo May | |
| 2021-??-?? | 2021-??-?? | Dialogue with Meno | Plato | |
| 2021-??-?? | 2021-??-?? | Dialogue with Protagoras | Plato | |
| 2021-??-?? | 2021-??-?? | Twilight of The Idols | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 2021-??-?? | 2021-??-?? | The Antichrist | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| 2021-??-?? | 2021-??-?? | The Last Days of Socrates | Plato | |
| 2022-05-?? | 2022-05-?? | Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 2022-05-?? | 2022-05-?? | Faust part 1 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| 2022-06-?? | 2022-06-?? | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | |
| 2022-09-?? | 2022-09-?? | Discourse on the Sciences and Arts | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 2022-10-?? | 2022-10-?? | Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| 2023-??-?? | 2023-??-?? | UnformattedProgress and Poverty | r-HG-PP-Hub | Henry George |
| 2023-??-?? | 2023-??-?? | The Prince | r-NM-TP-Hub | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 2023-??-?? | 2023-??-?? | The Art of War | r-NM-AW-Hub | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 2023-??-?? | 2023-??-?? | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 2023-05-16 | 2023-10-22 | The Odyssey | Homer | |
| 2023-10-27 | 2023-11-03 | Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman | |
| 2023-11-05 | 2023-11-24 | The Road to Serfdom | Friedrich Hayek | |
| 2023-11-28 | 2023-12-16 | On the Nature of Things | r-Lu-NT-Hub | Lucretius |
| 2023-12-17 | 2024-01-30 | Discourses on Livy | r-NM-DL-Hub | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| 2024-02-08 | 2024-04-15 | The Federalist Papers | r-Pu-FP-Hub | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay |
| 2024-04-16 | 2024-06-28 | The Constitution of Liberty | Friedrich Hayek | |
| 2024-07-04 | 2024-07-29 | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |
| 2024-07-31 | 2024-08-01 | Common Sense | r-TP-CS-Hub | Thomas Paine |
| 2024-08-03 | 2024-08-11 | How to Take Smart Notes | Sönke Ahrens | |
| 2024-08-16 | 2024-10-17 | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | r-JK-GT-Hub | John Maynard Keynes |
| 2024-11-02 | 2024-12-16 | The English Face of Machiavelli | Felix Raab | |
| 2025-01-02 | 2025-01-23 | Don Quixote volume I | Miguel de Cervantes | |
| 2025-04-02 | 2025-05-19 | Don Quixote volume II | Miguel de Cervantes | |
| 2025-05-24 | 2025-05-28 | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Papers/Articles
This section is not comprehensive, and does not count the shorter articles read.
- (08/28/24 - 08/28/24) Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index: Thinking Tool, Communication Partner, Publication Machine
To Read
This section follows no particular order.
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Skinner)
- The Machiavellian Moment (Pocock)
- Laws of Form (George Spencer-Brown)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Journey to the West
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- The Tale of Genji
- The Mahabharata
- House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Wittgenstein’s Mistress | David Markson |
| On Growth and Form | D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
| Leviathan | Hobbes |
| On War | von Clausewitz |
| Individualism and Economic Order | Hayek |
| Art and Agency | Gell |
| Mason & Dixon | Pynchon |
| Recognitions | Gaddis |
| Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare | Hoffman |
| The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | Goffman |
| The English Face of Machiavelli | Raab |
| The Sphere and Duties of Government | von Humboldt |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| In Search of Lost Time | Proust |
| Finnegan’s Wake | Joyce |
| A Thousand Plateaus | Deleuze-Guattari |
| Infinite Jest | Wallace |
| The Origin of Species | Darwin |
| Governing the Commons | Ostrom |
| The Listening Society | Freinacht |
| Anti-Oedipus | Deleuze-Guattari |
| Rhythmanalysis | Lefebvre |
| The Great Transformation | Polanyi |
| Naked Lunch | Burroughs |
| Doctor Faustus | Mann |
| The Dispossessed | Le Guin |
| Kindred | Butler |
| The Phenomenology of Spirit | Hegel |
| The Wealth of Nations | Smith |
| Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus | Wittgenstein |
| Democracy in America | de Tocqueville |
- Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (Hoffman)
- Art and Agency (Gell)
The English Face of Machiavelli (Raab)- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Goffman)
- The first part of the disquisition of truth, concerning political affaires (Henry Wright)
- Education of a Christian Prince (Erasmus)
- The Sphere and Duties of Government (von Humboldt)
- Don Quixote (Cervantes)
- In Search of Lost Time (Proust)
- Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce)
- A Thousand Plateaus (Deleuze-Guattari)
- On War (von Clausewitz)
- Recognitions (Gaddis)
- Infinite Jest (Wallace)
- The Origin of Species (Darwin)
- Governing the Commons (Ostrom)
- Leviathan (Hobbes)
- Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)
- The Listening Society (Freinacht)
- Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze-Guattari)
- Individualism and Economic Order (Hayek)
- Rhythmanalysis (Lefebvre)
- The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
- Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
- Doctor Faustus (Mann)
- The Dispossessed (Le Guin)
- Kindred (Butler)
- The Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
- The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Wittgenstein)
- Democracy in America (de Tocqueville)