Library | Antilibrary
an·ti·li·brar·y | noun | \ˌan-tē-ˈlī-ˌbrer-ē, ˌan-ˌtī-\
A collection of unread books, kept as a reminder of what one does not yet know; the assembly of volumes acquired but not yet consumed
The private collection of books one intends to read, standing in deliberate opposition to the notion that a library represents only what has been read.
Anthropology & Cultural Studies
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
(1992)
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concept of Pollution and Taboo
(2002)
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
(2021)
We Have Never Been Modern
(2012)
Biography & Memoir
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
(2010)
Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai
(1973)
Humanly Possible
(2023)
Last Words
(2009)
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
(2003)
Revelations of Divine Love
(1393)
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
(2021)
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
(2011)
Virginia Woolf
(1996)
Classic Literature
Death Comes for the Archbishop
(1927)
Don Quixote de La Mancha
(1605)
East of Eden
(1952)
Independent People
(1934)
Madonna in a Fur Coat
(1943)
Middlemarch
(1872)
The Anatomy of Melancholy
(1621)
The Betrothed
(1827)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(1940)
The Human Comedy
(1943)
Trilby
(1894)
Consciousness Studies
Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind
(2000)
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven
(2019)
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
(2016)
Prometheus Rising
(1983)
The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness
(2008)
Contemporary Literary Fiction
Atonement
(2001)
Circe
(2018)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
(2009)
Either/Or
(2022)
Flesh
(2025)
Ghost Wall
(2018)
Gilead
(2004)
James
(2024)
Lies and Sorcery
(1948)
Middlesex
(2002)
My Brilliant Friend
(2011)
My Name Is Asher Lev
(1972)
Never Let Me Go
(2005)
No One Is Talking About This
(2021)
North Woods
(2023)
Notes of a Crocodile
(1994)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
(2019)
Pachinko
(2017)
Rejection
(2024)
Sea of Tranquility
(2022)
Sister Deborah
(2022)
Small Things Like These
(2021)
Station Eleven
(2014)
The Barracks
(1963)
The Book of Disquiet
(1982)
The Coin
(2024)
The Glass Hotel
(2020)
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
(2018)
The Library at Mount Char
(2015)
The Membranes
(1995)
The Mezzanine
(1988)
The Name of the Rose
(1980)
The Passion According to G.H.
(1964)
The Sea
(2005)
The Sea, the Sea
(1978)
The Sellout
(2015)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(1984)
The Underground Railroad
(2016)
Tropic of Cancer
(1934)
Under the Net
(1954)
Will There Ever Be Another You
(2025)
Yellowface
(2023)
Creativity & Innovation
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
(1979)
The Act of Creation
(1964)
Economics & Social Theory
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
(1997)
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
(2020)
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
(2022)
The Economics of Non-Human Societies
(1994)
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
(2020)
Essays & Creative Nonfiction
Feel Free: Essays
(2018)
For the Time Being
(1999)
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
(2013)
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
(1982)
The Empathy Exams
(2014)
When I Was a Child I Read Books
(2012)
Historical Fiction
Hild
(2013)
Jerusalem Delivered
(1581)
The Satanic Verses
(1988)
The Secret History
(1992)
History & Politics
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
(2025)
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City
(2018)
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
(2024)
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
(1974)
Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
(2013)
Japanese Literature & Culture
All the Lovers in the Night
(2011)
Breasts and Eggs
(2008)
Convenience Store Woman
(2016)
Lost Japan
(1993)
Sisters in Yellow
(2023)
Six Records of a Floating Life
(1877)
Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume I/II
(1964)
Strange Weather in Tokyo
(2001)
The Catalpa Bapan
(1999)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
(1963)
The Samurai
(1980)
Tokyo Ueno Station
(2014)
Latin American Literature
One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967)
The Savage Detectives
(1998)
2666
(2004)
Literary Experimental
let me tell you and let me go on
(2025)
Literary Theory & Criticism
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
(2021)
How to Be Alone
(2002)
Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
(1976)
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019
(2019)
Ways of Seeing
(1972)
Masculinity & Men's Studies
Iron John: A Book About Men
(1990)
The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood
(1996)
Modernist Literature
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
(2025)
Stoner
(1965)
We Were the Mulvaneys
(1996)
Music
Conversations
(2022)
Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska
(2020)
Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior
(2022)
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
(2003)
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
(1994)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
(2009)
Philosophy & Continental Thought
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
(1974)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
(1972)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
(1963)
MORALITY OF HAPPINESS
(1993)
The Complete Essays
(1580)
What We Owe to Each Other
(1999)
Poetry
Bright Dead Things
(2015)
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
(2005)
Eros the Bittersweet
(1986)
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
(2001)
The Wild Iris
(1992)
Walking to Martha's Vineyard: Poems
(2003)
Postmodern & Maximalist Fiction
Gravity's Rainbow
(1973)
House of Leaves
(2000)
J R
(1975)
My Struggle
(2009)
On the Calculation of Volume
(2020)
Solenoid
(2015)
The Instructions
(2010)
The Last Samurai
(2000)
The Recognitions
(1955)
The Tunnel
(1995)
Underworld
(1997)
V.
(1963)
Wittgenstein's Mistress
(1988)
Psychology
The Burnout Society
(2010)
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
(2018)
Religion & Spirituality (Literary)
Gravity and Grace
(1947)
Waiting for God
(1951)
Russian Literature
A Hero of Our Time
(1839)
Life and Fate
(1960)
Notes from Underground
(1864)
Pale Fire
(1962)
The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)
Science & Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
(2014)
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
(2011)
The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots
(2021)
Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction
Project Hail Mary
(2021)
The Fifth Season
(2015)
The Martian
(2011)
The Sword of Kaigen
(2019)
Wool Omnibus
(2012)
Short Stories
Birds of America
(1998)
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
(2009)
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
(2015)
Your Duck Is My Duck
(2018)
Spirituality & Religious Studies
All Things Are Full of Gods: The Mysteries of Mind and Life
(2024)
How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
(1981)
Kumano Kodo: Pilgrimage to Powerspots
(2022)
Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu
(2016)
Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
(1992)
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
(1998)
The Making of Modern Buddhism
(2008)
The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
(1981)
Sports Writing
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing
(1997)
Technology & Digital Culture
Blockchain Chicken Farm, And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
(2020)
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
(2024)
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
(2025)
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
(2024)
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
(2025)
Theater & Drama
4.48 Psychosis
(2000)
Endgame
(1957)
Krapp's Last Tape
(1958)
The Cherry Orchard
(1904)
The Seagull
(1896)
Three Sisters
(1901)
Top Girls
(1982)
Travel & Nature Writing
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople - from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
(1977)
A Time to Keep Silence
(1953)
Annals of the Former World
(2000)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
(2015)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
(1974)
The Tree
(1979)
The Writing Life
(1989)