Reading Log
2026
Highlights
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
recommend
January 14, 2026
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Matsuo Bashō
January 2, 2026
2025
Highlights
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf
favorite
November 14, 2025
Blindness
by José Saramago
favorite
July 6, 2025
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
highly recommend
December 12, 2025
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
highly recommend
October 28, 2025
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
highly recommend
August 18, 2025
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
highly recommend
June 14, 2025
Train Dreams
by Denis Johnson
highly recommend
April 13, 2025
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
highly recommend
February 7, 2025
An Oresteia
by Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides; trans. Anne Carson
recommend
December 7, 2025
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
recommend
November 11, 2025
The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa
recommend
October 8, 2025
There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
recommend
September 13, 2025
The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace
recommend
July 20, 2025
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
by Elizabeth Gilbert
December 5, 2025
Fear and Trembling
by Søren Kierkegaard
December 5, 2025
Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
by Joel Brinkley
December 2, 2025
Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
by Patrick L. Gardiner
November 27, 2025
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector
November 24, 2025
Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
by James R. Rush
November 22, 2025
The Second Mountain
by David Brooks
November 18, 2025
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Singer
November 16, 2025
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by Mark Fisher
November 11, 2025
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams
November 8, 2025
Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems
by Masaoka Shiki
November 1, 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
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
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
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 Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
July 18, 2025
The White Album
by Joan Didion
June 5, 2025
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
by Jane Alison
May 30, 2025
Abundance
by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
May 7, 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
Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing
by Derek Sivers
April 12, 2025
Universal Harvester
by John Darnielle
April 11, 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
Linguistics: Why It Matters
by Geoffrey K. Pullum
January 5, 2025
2024
Highlights
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
favorite
November 9, 2024
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
favorite
June 4, 2024
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
by Sappho (trans. Anne Carson)
favorite
January 1, 2024
Seeing That Frees
by Rob Burbea
highly recommend
July 20, 2024
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
by David Eagleman
highly recommend
January 11, 2024
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
by James P. Carse
recommend
August 22, 2024
Devil House
by John Darnielle
recommend
July 31, 2024
Thousand Cranes
by Yasunari Kawabata
recommend
June 29, 2024
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
by Alex Ross
recommend
June 4, 2024
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
recommend
March 24, 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
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
Meaningness
by David Chapman
August 16, 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
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
The Motivation Hacker
by Nick Winter
June 9, 2024
Principles: Life and Work
by Ray Dalio
June 6, 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
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
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
January 8, 2024
2023
Highlights
Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
favorite
April 18, 2023
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
favorite
January 15, 2023
Grendel
by John Gardner
favorite
January 1, 2023
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
highly recommend
December 7, 2023
Wolf in White Van
by John Darnielle
highly recommend
February 18, 2023
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
highly recommend
February 3, 2023
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
highly recommend
January 15, 2023
The Weight of Glory
by C.S. Lewis
recommend
June 16, 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
recommend
April 9, 2023
The Wise Man's Fear
by Patrick Rothfuss
recommend
February 25, 2023
Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators
by Guy Armstrong
December 12, 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
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
by Mary Oliver
June 15, 2023
Taking the Path of Zen
by Robert Aitken
June 12, 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
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
April 17, 2023
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
April 10, 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 Practice: Shipping Creative Work
by Seth Godin
February 21, 2023
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman
February 20, 2023
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron
February 4, 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