Reading
A running shelf, loosely in reverse chronological order. Papers →
2026
the jakarta method | vincent bevins
gilead | marilynne robinson
joyas voladoras | brian doyle
the lottery | shirley jackson
euthyphro | plato
the straussian moment | peter thiel
voyages to the end of the world | peter thiel and sam wolfe
the pope and the antichrist | peter thiel and sam wolfe
on the euthyphron (from the rebirth of classical political rationalism) | leo strauss
silence | shūsaku endō
progress or return? (from the rebirth of classical political rationalism) | leo strauss
the regensburg address | pope benedict xvi
magnifica humanitas | pope leo xiv
what is political philosophy? | leo strauss
antigone | sophocles
comments on antigone | leo strauss
slouching towards bethlehem | joan didion
the black swan: the impact of the highly improbable | nassim nicholas taleb
utterly ingenious five-minute mysteries | ken weber
programming pearls | jon bentley
the sabbath | abraham joshua heschel
modal gpu glossary | charles frye
christendom: the triumph of a religion | peter heather
breakneck: china's quest to engineer the future | dan wang
range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world | david epstein
things in nature merely grow | yiyun li
principles of building ai agents | sam bhagwat
the infinity machine: demis hassabis, deepmind, and the quest for superintelligence | sebastian mallaby
how to rule the world: an education in power at stanford university | theo baker
the dog's gaze: a visual history | thomas w. laqueur
the opposite of loneliness | marina keegan
the gay science | friedrich nietzsche; translation by josefine nauckhoff, adrian del caro
thus spake zarathustra | friedrich nietzsche; translation by adrian del caro
beyond good and evil | friedrich nietzsche; translation by judith norman
on the genealogy of morals | friedrich nietzsche; translation by carol diethe
ecce homo | friedrich nietzsche; translation by judith norman
machines of loving grace | dario amodei
the adolescence of technology | dario amodei
2025
death's end | cixin liu
a little life | hanya yanagihara
cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things | william mcdonough, michael braungart
the portable nietzsche | translation by walter kaufmann
abolish silicon valley: how to liberate technology from capitalism | wendy liu
bhagavad gita | translation by stephen mitchell
chip war: the fight for the world's most critical technology | chris miller
gödel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid | douglas r. hofstadter
like a sky inside | jakuta alikavazovic
orientalism | edward said
retribution: donald trump and the campaign that changed america | jonathan karl
hope for cynics: the surprising science of human goodness | jamil zaki
the happiness hypothesis | jonathan haidt
make believe: poems for hoping again | victoria hutchins
sunrise on the reaping | suzanne collins
charlie y la fábrica de chocolate | roald dahl
the order of time | carlo rovelli
flowers on the moon | billy chapata
the analects | confucius
a ballad of songbirds and snakes | suzanne collins
home body | rupi kaur
the opposite of depression | david m carreon
paradise lost | john milton
philosophy 101: from plato and socrates to ethics and metaphysics, an essential primer on the history of thought | paul kleinman
the princess saves herself in this one | amanda lovelace
she followed the moon back to herself | amanda lovelace
2024
the three-body problem | cixin liu
the dark forest | cixin liu
a court of thorns and roses | sarah j maas
spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of american intelligence | amy zegart
know my name | chanel miller
zero to one | peter thiel
yellowface | r.f. kuang
tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | gabrielle zevin
crying in h mart | michelle zauner
eclipse | wilder poetry
steve jobs | walter isaacson
as the last i may know | s.l. huang
foundation | isaac asimov
frankenstein | mary shelley
the alchemist | paulo coelho
how to be a founder: how entrepreneurs can identify, fund and launch their best ideas | alice bentinck, matt clifford
pale blue dot | carl sagan
mono no aware | ken liu
on the rainy river | tim o'brien
system error: where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot | jeremy m. weinstein, mehran sahami, rob reich
how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy | jenny odell
educated | tara westover
pedagogy of the oppressed | paulo freire
2022 - 2023
this is water: some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life | david foster wallace
ozymandias | percy bysshe shelley
the road not taken and other poems | robert frost
the awakened brain: the new science of spirituality and our quest for an inspired life | lisa miller
on earth we're briefly gorgeous | ocean vuong
the paper menagerie | ken liu
this time will be different | misa sugiura
letter from utopia | nick bostrom
braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants | robin wall kimmerer
the myth of sisyphus | albert camus
attention is all you need | ashish vaswani, et al.
superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies | nick bostrom
the universe in zero words: the story of mathematics as told through equations | dana mackenzie
little fires everywhere | celeste ng
face to face with vincent van gogh | aukje vergeest
computing machinery and intelligence | alan turing
the precipice | toby ord
dune | frank herbert
when breath becomes air | paul kalanithi
the scout mindset: why some people see things clearly and others don't | julia galef
the song of achilles | madeline miller
the sun is also a star | nicola yoon
this book is gay | juno dawson
a hunger artist | franz kafka
the catcher in the rye | j.d. salinger
meditations on moloch | scott alexander
on caring | nate soares
the sound of stars | alechia dow
1984 | george orwell
fahrenheit 451 | ray bradbury
a modest proposal | jonathan swift
2020 - 2021
the great gatsby | f. scott fitzgerald
the jungle | upton sinclair
julius caesar | william shakespeare
things fall apart | chinua achebe
outliers | malcolm gladwell
the kite runner | khaled hosseini
metamorphosis | franz kafka
warriors don't cry | melba pattillo beals
great expectations | charles dickens
night | elie wiesel
the killer angels | michael shaara
heartstopper | alice oseman
the handmaid's tale | margaret atwood
becoming | michelle obama
so much i want to tell you: letters to my little sister | anna akana
2019
milk and honey | rupi kaur
the sun and her flowers | rupi kaur
the house on mango street | sandra cisneros
tao te ching | laozi
anne frank: the diary of a young girl | anne frank
american born chinese | gene luen yang
illuminae | amie kaufman & jay kristoff
love and gelato | jenna evans welch
the odyssey | homer
of mice and men | john steinbeck
romeo and juliet | william shakespeare
persepolis | marjane satrapi
the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian | sherman alexie
the bean trees | barbara kingsolver
a young persons history of the united states | howard zinn; adapted by rebecca stefoff
red white and royal blue | casey mcquiston
battle hymn of the tiger mother | amy chua
scythe | neal shusterman
thunderhead | neal shusterman
the toll | neal shusterman
dry | neal shusterman, jarrod shusterman
mark of the thief | jennifer a. nielsen
old yeller | fred gipson
the pearl | john steinbeck
the thief lord | cornelia funke
fish in a tree | lynda mullaly hunt
zombies vs unicorns | holly black, justine larbalestier
the book thief | markus zusak
i know why the caged bird sings | maya angelou
2018
the grapes of wrath | john steinbeck
lord of the flies | william golding
to kill a mockingbird | harper lee
the fault in our stars | john green
20,000 leagues under the sea | jules verne
the red badge of courage | stephen crane
the adventures of tom sawyer | mark twain
adventures of huckleberry finn | mark twain
i am malala | malala yousafzai
the outsiders | s.e. hinton
13 reasons why | jay asher
twilight | stephenie meyer
the old man and the sea | ernest hemingway
the one safe place | tania unsworth
seedfolks | paul fleischman
a christmas carol | charles dickens
the boy in the striped pajamas | john boyne
the necklace | guy de maupassant
after 20 years | o. henry
the last leaf | o. henry
a rose for emily | william faulkner
mrs. flowers | maya angelou
dirk the protector | gary paulsen
a day's wait | ernest hemingway
the giver | lois lowry
candide | voltaire
middle school: the worst years of my life | chris tebbetts, james patterson
2017 and before
johnny tremain | esther forbes
inside out and back again | thanhha lai
regarding the fountain | kate klise
the call of the wild | jack london
where the red fern grows | wilson rawls
swindle | gordon korman
among the hidden | margaret peterson haddix
alex rider series | anthony horowitz
the gift of the magi | o. henry
o captain my captain | walt whitman
paul revere's ride | henry wadsworth longfellow
i, too, sing america | langston hughes