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)
Subcultures: The Basics
(2014)
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 Land: A Suburban Memoir
(1996)
Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai
(1973)
Humanly Possible
(2023)
Last Words
(2009)
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
(2003)
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
(2002)
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
(2021)
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
(2011)
Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy
(2015)
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
(2024)
Virginia Woolf
(1996)
Business
Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
(2013)
The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination
(2022)
Chinese Literature
Six Records of a Floating Life
(1877)
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
(1740)
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)
Zorba the Greek
(1946)
Consciousness Studies
A Book of Life
(2003)
Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind
(2000)
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
(2002)
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)
REALITY
(2020)
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
(2022)
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
(2009)
The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
(2008)
The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness
(2008)
Creativity & Innovation
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
(1979)
The Act of Creation
(1964)
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
(1997)
The Timeless Way of Building
(1979)
Theory of Fun for Game Design
(2004)
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
Conversations with Don DeLillo
(2005)
Feel Free: Essays
(2018)
For the Time Being
(1999)
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness
(2023)
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
(2013)
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
(2016)
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
(1982)
The Empathy Exams
(2014)
When I Was a Child I Read Books
(2012)
Food & Cooking
The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
(2014)
Historical Fiction
Hild
(2013)
Jerusalem Delivered
(1581)
The Satanic Verses
(1988)
The Secret History
(1992)
History & Politics
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
(2014)
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
(1990)
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities
(2007)
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
(1989)
Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
(2004)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
(2014)
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
(2025)
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City
(2018)
Cities for People
(2010)
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
(1939)
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
(1835)
How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region
(2013)
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
(2024)
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
(2014)
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
(2009)
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
(2022)
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
(2023)
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
(2025)
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
(1974)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
(2016)
Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World
(2013)
Japanese Literature & Culture
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
(1887)
All the Lovers in the Night
(2011)
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868
(1996)
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan
Breasts and Eggs
(2008)
Convenience Store Woman
(2016)
Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan
(2018)
Handbook of Japanese Mythology
(2003)
Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan
(2014)
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
(2006)
Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook
(2011)
Japanese Tales
(1987)
Kokinshu: A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern
(1984)
Kusamakura
(1906)
Lost Japan
(1993)
Sisters in Yellow
(2023)
Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume I/II
(1964)
Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability
(2016)
Strange Weather in Tokyo
(2001)
Tales of Ise
(2016)
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
(1899)
The Catalpa Bapan
(1999)
The Japanese Garden
(2017)
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 Fiction
100 Boyfriends
(2021)
A Shining
(2024)
Atonement
(2001)
Blackouts: A Novel
(2023)
Circe
(2018)
Death on the Installment Plan
(1936)
Doctor Faustus
(1947)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
(2009)
Either/Or
(2022)
Flesh
(2025)
Flowers For Algernon
(1966)
Ghost Wall
(2018)
Gilead
(2004)
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
(1999)
Inherent Vice: A Novel
(2009)
James
(2024)
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: A Novel
(2022)
Journey to the End of the Night
(1932)
Leviathan Wakes
(2011)
Lies and Sorcery
(1948)
Middlesex
(2002)
Mind-body Problem
(1983)
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 City of Brass: A Novel
(2017)
The Coin
(2024)
The Fall
(1956)
The Glass Hotel
(2020)
The Guide: A Novel
(1958)
The L.A. Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz
(2011)
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)
Timequake
(1997)
Tropic of Cancer
(1934)
Under the Net
(1954)
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel
(2020)
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East: A Novel
(2022)
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
(2011)
Will There Ever Be Another You
(2025)
Yellowface
(2023)
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)
Modernist Literature
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)
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
(2008)
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life
(1985)
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
(2007)
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
(2009)
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
(2021)
Philosophy & Continental Thought
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
(1757)
A Theory of Justice
(1971)
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
(1974)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
(1972)
Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time
(1991)
Breakdown of Will
(2001)
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
(1641)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
(1963)
Escape from Evil
(1975)
Ethical Intuitionism
(2005)
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
(1984)
Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
(2007)
In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
(1994)
Morality of Happiness
(1993)
More Studies in Ethnomethodology
(2013)
Political Liberalism
(1993)
Simulacra and Simulation
(1981)
Studies in Ethnomethodology
(1967)
The Art of Happiness
The Complete Essays
(1580)
The Denial of Death
(1973)
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
(1960)
The History of Sexuality
(1976)
The Human Condition
(1958)
The Meaning of History
(1923)
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
(2010)
What We Owe to Each Other
(1999)
Poetry
Bright Dead Things
(2015)
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
(2005)
Eros the Bittersweet
(1986)
Maximus Poems
(1983)
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
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
(2020)
Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
(2000)
Iron John: A Book About Men
(1990)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
(1990)
Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas
(2022)
The Architecture of Happiness
(2006)
The Art of Travel
(2002)
The Burnout Society
(2010)
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
(2018)
The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics
(2017)
The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood
(1996)
The Talent Code
(2009)
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)
Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious
(2025)
Book of the Hopi
(1963)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
(2013)
Centuries
(1908)
Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
(2002)
Gravity and Grace
(1947)
Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany
(2009)
Hawaiian Mythology
(1940)
How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
(1981)
How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
(2005)
Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind
(2001)
Kumano Kodo: Pilgrimage to Powerspots
(2022)
Magical Passes: The Practical Wisdom of the Shamans of Ancient Mexico
(1998)
Meditation for the Love of It: Enjoying Your Own Deepest Experience
(2011)
Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection
(1999)
Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo in Kyushu
(2016)
Opening Awareness: A guide to finding vividness in spacious clarity
(2023)
Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
(2022)
Protocol of the Gods: A Study of the Kasuga Cult in Japanese History
(1992)
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
(2010)
Revelations of Divine Love
(1393)
Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
(2017)
Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing
(2002)
The Analects
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
(1998)
The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
(2002)
The Book of Chuang Tzu
(1996)
The Book of Five Rings
(1645)
The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
(1993)
The Mahabharata
The Making of Modern Buddhism
(2008)
The Mirror of Simple Souls
(1993)
The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions
(2017)
The Secret of the Golden Flower
(1991)
The Sound of Silence: The Selected Teachings of Ajahn Sumedho
(2007)
The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
(1981)
Treasure-house of Mysteries: Exploration of the Sacred Text Through Poetry in the Syriac Tradition
(2012)
Waiting for God
(1951)
When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen
(2021)
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
(1957)
Sports Writing
Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics
(2008)
This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing
(1997)
Technology & Digital Culture
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
(2012)
Blockchain Chicken Farm, And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
(2020)
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
(2024)
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
(2024)
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
(2025)
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
(1994)
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
(2015)
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
(2024)
The Extreme Self
(2015)
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)