Reese Williams

Reading Log

2025

Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer

November 16, 2025

The Waves by Virginia Woolf favorite

November 14, 2025

The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi

November 12, 2025

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

November 11, 2025

Neuromancer by William Gibson recommend

November 11, 2025

Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

November 8, 2025

Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki

November 1, 2025

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell highly recommend

October 28, 2025

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

October 21, 2025

Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov by Kenji Miyazawa

October 11, 2025

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa recommend

October 8, 2025

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

October 6, 2025

The Book of I by David Greig

October 4, 2025

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

September 23, 2025

Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan; Poems, Letters, and Other Writings by Ryōkan

September 21, 2025

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller

September 20, 2025

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

September 14, 2025

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

September 13, 2025

To the Field of Stars: A Pilgrim's Journey to Santiago de Compostela by Kevin A. Codd

September 9, 2025

Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens

September 1, 2025

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut highly recommend

August 18, 2025

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

August 8, 2025

Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih by Hanshan

August 7, 2025

Keeping The Breath In Mind by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo

August 3, 2025

Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti

July 23, 2025

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace recommend

July 20, 2025

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

July 18, 2025

Blindness by José Saramago favorite

July 6, 2025

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson highly recommend

June 14, 2025

The White Album by Joan Didion

June 5, 2025

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison

May 30, 2025

May 23, 2025

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
review

May 12, 2025

The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley

May 4, 2025

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell

May 1, 2025

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson highly recommend

April 13, 2025

Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing by Derek Sivers

April 12, 2025

Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

April 11, 2025

April 5, 2025

Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer

April 3, 2025

Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato

March 31, 2025

Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton

March 28, 2025

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

March 2, 2025

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

March 2, 2025

The Bhagavad Gita - Introduced & Translated by Eknath Easwaran by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

February 27, 2025

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion highly recommend

February 7, 2025

Linguistics: Why It Matters by Geoffrey K. Pullum

January 5, 2025

2024

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

December 31, 2024

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins

December 18, 2024

Three Zen Sutras: The Heart, The Diamond, and The Platform Sutras by Red Pine

December 12, 2024

Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard

December 11, 2024

Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin by Hakuin Ekaku

November 11, 2024

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy favorite

November 9, 2024

Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition by Paul Millerd

October 31, 2024

Japanese Death Poems by Yoel Hoffmann

October 19, 2024

Who Am I?: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by Ramana Maharshi

October 16, 2024

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse recommend

August 22, 2024

Meaningness by David Chapman

August 16, 2024

Devil House by John Darnielle recommend

July 31, 2024

Beowulf by Beowulf Poet

July 27, 2024

Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea highly recommend

July 20, 2024

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

July 11, 2024

Eat a Peach by David Chang

July 7, 2024

Something to Do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace

July 6, 2024

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

July 4, 2024

Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata recommend

June 29, 2024

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

June 25, 2024

Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home by Matthew Kepnes

June 22, 2024

Nowhere for Very Long by Brianna Madia

June 19, 2024

The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life by Chris Guillebeau

June 16, 2024

Mastery by Robert Greene

June 15, 2024

The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter

June 9, 2024

Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

June 6, 2024

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace favorite

June 4, 2024

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross recommend

June 4, 2024

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts

June 2, 2024

Fragments from a Found Notebook by Mihail Sebastian

May 28, 2024

Life Nomadic: How to Travel the World for Less Than You Pay in Rent by Tynan

May 27, 2024

The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Financial Security by Scott Galloway

May 21, 2024

The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss

May 16, 2024

The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young

April 28, 2024

The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer

March 28, 2024

Experiments in Truth by Ram Dass

March 26, 2024

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke recommend

March 24, 2024

Comedy Sex God by Pete Holmes

March 17, 2024

True Self/False Self by Richard Rohr

March 15, 2024

As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

February 24, 2024

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani

February 19, 2024

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott

February 11, 2024

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman highly recommend

January 11, 2024

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

January 8, 2024

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho favorite

January 1, 2024

2023

Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators by Guy Armstrong

December 12, 2023

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino highly recommend

December 7, 2023

Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor

November 15, 2023

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

October 7, 2023

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

September 27, 2023

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert

September 24, 2023

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

September 20, 2023

The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life by Paul Millerd

August 25, 2023

The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems by Nicole Sealey

August 24, 2023

The Dhammapada by Anonymous

August 13, 2023

Why Materialism Is Baloney by Bernardo Kastrup

August 11, 2023

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi

August 11, 2023

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov

July 12, 2023

The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis recommend

June 16, 2023

A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver

June 15, 2023

Taking the Path of Zen by Robert Aitken

June 12, 2023

The Tools by Phil Stutz

June 11, 2023

Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma-An Integrative Somatic Approach by Kathy L. Kain

June 10, 2023

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett

June 3, 2023

Practical Insight Meditation by Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw

May 20, 2023

The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

May 19, 2023

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

May 19, 2023

Thought-Forms by Annie Besant

May 13, 2023

Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

April 22, 2023

Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

April 19, 2023

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō

April 19, 2023

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson favorite

April 18, 2023

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

April 17, 2023

The Aeneid by Virgil

April 17, 2023

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

April 10, 2023

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin recommend

April 9, 2023

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

April 2, 2023

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

March 26, 2023

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

March 16, 2023

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

March 5, 2023

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

March 4, 2023

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

February 28, 2023

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

February 27, 2023

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss recommend

February 25, 2023

The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin

February 21, 2023

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

February 20, 2023

Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle highly recommend

February 18, 2023

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

February 4, 2023

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver highly recommend

February 3, 2023

The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman

February 3, 2023

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada

January 25, 2023

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

January 24, 2023

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders favorite

January 15, 2023

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss highly recommend

January 15, 2023

Grendel by John Gardner favorite

January 1, 2023