Books

Books

Note: this is just a placeholder. I later on plan to write my thoughts on certain books I read…

In Progress

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
Among the Cities by Jan Morris
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism by Stephen Ramsay
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis

2025

Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
M Train by Patti Smith
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Just Kids by Patti Smith

2024

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran (trans.)
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design by Daniel Jackson

2023

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Stoner by John Williams
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick