Books
This list is created and maintained automatically by Claude and ChatGPT, from the photos I take of the books I’m reading.
299 books, 2012–2026, each under the month I last photographed it. Titles link to Bookshop.org, which supports independent bookshops.
Lately
- Oct
Wind, Sand and StarsAntoine de Saint-Exupéry 
The Russian Campaign of 1812Alexander Mikaberidze, Peter G. A. Phillips
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
Hasidism and Modern ManMartin Buber
The Jewish StateTheodor Herzl- Sep
For the Time BeingAnnie Dillard 
Les IlluminationsArthur Rimbaud
Democracy and PoetryRobert Penn Warren
Crossing the Wine-Dark SeaEmily Wilson- Aug
RulesLorraine Daston 
The ScoreC. Thi Nguyen
The Whale and the ReactorLangdon Winner- Jul
The Writing LifeAnnie Dillard 
Holy the FirmAnnie Dillard- Jun
Being and TimeMartin Heidegger - May
The Way of ManMartin Buber - Apr
Go Tell It on the MountainJames Baldwin 
HelgolandCarlo Rovelli
In the Garden of BeastsErik Larson
KutuzovAlexander Mikaberidze
Seven Pillars of WisdomT. E. Lawrence
The Rigor of AngelsWilliam Egginton
The Splendid and the VileErik Larson
Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant
Barbarian DaysWilliam Finnegan
Physics and PhilosophyWerner Heisenberg- Mar
American PrometheusKai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin - Feb
The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche - Jan
The OutsiderColin Wilson
- Dec
Terrence Malick and the Examined LifeMartin Woessner 
Giovanni's RoomJames Baldwin
A Smile in the Mind's EyeLawrence Durrell
Purity of Heart Is to Will One ThingSøren Kierkegaard
Lost IllusionsHonoré de Balzac- Nov
Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert 
The Iron KingMaurice Druon
The Concept of IronySøren Kierkegaard
Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ArabiHenry Corbin- Oct
Everyday ZenCharlotte Joko Beck 
PaulN. T. Wright
LaviniaUrsula K. Le Guin
A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles
The Elusive EmbraceDaniel Mendelsohn
The Last Picture ShowLarry McMurtry
The Sickness Unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard- Sep
Bring Me the RhinocerosJohn Tarrant 
The OdysseyHomer
An OdysseyDaniel Mendelsohn
Aeneid Book VIVirgil
The AeneidVirgil
The IliadHomer
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert M. Pirsig
The Rise and Fall of Modern MedicineJames Le Fanu- Aug
Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche 
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
EnsorcelledEliot Peper
Carl SaganKeay Davidson
H Is for HawkHelen Macdonald
Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard
On CertaintyLudwig Wittgenstein
Glengarry Glen RossDavid Mamet
QuicksilverNeal Stephenson
The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy- Jul
Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein - Jun
The Machine in the GardenLeo Marx 
Life's WorkDavid Milch
Bill GatesJonathan Gatlin- May
The BeautiesAnton Chekhov 
I and ThouMartin Buber
Journal of a NovelJohn Steinbeck
The Elements of EloquenceMark Forsyth
The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk, E. B. White
Writing ToolsRoy Peter Clark
Faust, Part IJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Prisoner in His PalaceWill Bardenwerper
RosshaldeHermann Hesse
Angle of ReposeWallace Stegner- Apr
Speak, MemoryVladimir Nabokov 
The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion
The Glass Bead GameHermann Hesse
ABC of ReadingEzra Pound- Mar
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy QueenLarry McMurtry 
Lonesome DoveLarry McMurtry
Collected PoemsJack Gilbert
Timaeus and CritiasPlato- Feb
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy 
Complexity and PostmodernismPaul Cilliers
Through Forests of Every ColorJoan Sutherland- Jan
SuperagencyReid Hoffman, Greg Beato 
MicrocognitionAndy Clark
The Books of JacobOlga Tokarczuk
Hidden in Plain ViewGary Saul Morson
Pragmatism as Anti-AuthoritarianismRichard Rorty
John DowlandDiana Poulton
Parallel Distributed ProcessingDavid E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland
Machines Who ThinkPamela McCorduck
- Dec
The Passion of the Western MindRichard Tarnas - Nov
Soros on SorosGeorge Soros 
Protagoras and MenoPlato
CosmopolisStephen Toulmin
The Roots of RomanticismIsaiah Berlin- The Human HandGéza Révész
HyperionFriedrich Hölderlin
The Master and His EmissaryIain McGilchrist
Symbols of the KabbalahSanford L. Drob
Mornings Like ThisAnnie Dillard- Oct
Einstein's DreamsAlan Lightman 
Hermes and His ChildrenRafael López-Pedraza
Plato and PlatonismJ. N. Findlay
Atomic HabitsJames Clear
VectorRobyn Arianrhod
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson
The Tacit DimensionMichael Polanyi
Never Play It SafeChase Jarvis
Personal KnowledgeMichael Polanyi- What Computers Can't DoHubert L. Dreyfus
Moby-DickHerman Melville- Sep
William JamesRobert D. Richardson 
The Divine MilieuPierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Second SelfSherry Turkle- Aug
AristotleDavid Ross 
The GreeksH. D. F. Kitto
The Greeks and the IrrationalE. R. Dodds
Chilla Gorilla & Lanky Lemur Journey to the HeartKimberly Snyder, Jon Bier
Upheavals of ThoughtMartha C. Nussbaum- Jul
The Fragility of GoodnessMartha C. Nussbaum 
Speculum of the Other WomanLuce Irigaray
The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche
MathematicaDavid Bessis
The Archaeology of KnowledgeMichel Foucault- Jun
Theaetetus and SophistPlato 
Prompt Engineering for Generative AIJames Phoenix, Mike Taylor
PhaedrusPlato
Clear ThinkingShane Parrish
Of GrammatologyJacques Derrida
How Romantics and Victorians Organized InformationJillian M. Hess- May
MoonboundRobin Sloan 
Building a StoryBrandDonald Miller
How Music WorksDavid Byrne
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman- Apr
Lincoln in the BardoGeorge Saunders 
The American Evasion of PhilosophyCornel West
Philosophy and Social HopeRichard Rorty- Mar
A Swim in a Pond in the RainGeorge Saunders 
The Raid and Other StoriesLeo Tolstoy
GileadMarilynne Robinson
Playing and RealityD. W. Winnicott
No HandsJudith Crown, Glenn Coleman
Crypto ConfidentialNathaniel Eliason
The Legend of the Baal-ShemMartin Buber
BluetsMaggie Nelson- Feb
The ChosenChaim Potok - Jan
Chekhov Becomes ChekhovBob Blaisdell 
Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700Carlo M. Cipolla
Average Is OverTyler Cowen
Big Magic (deluxe)Elizabeth Gilbert
The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph Henrich
- Dec
WhereaboutsJhumpa Lahiri 
The Home and the WorldRabindranath Tagore
The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri
TV CreatorsJames L. Longworth
Big FictionDan Sinykin
The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
Anatomy of MovementBlandine Calais-Germain
The Age of Spiritual MachinesRay Kurzweil
Poor Charlie’s AlmanackCharles T. Munger- Nov
Hands of TimeRebecca Struthers 
Iron JohnRobert Bly
The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin- Oct
The Lathe of HeavenUrsula K. Le Guin 
DeterminedRobert M. Sapolsky- Sep
How Emotions Are MadeLisa Feldman Barrett - Aug
This Is PersonalBrennan Dunn 
MisbeliefDan Ariely
The PARA MethodTiago Forte
The Path to PowerRobert A. Caro- Jul
American FriedCalvin Trillin 
God, Human, Animal, MachineMeghan O'Gieblyn
The Tender BarJ. R. Moehringer
Permutation CityGreg Egan- Jun
The Book of BasketballBill Simmons 
Children of TimeAdrian Tchaikovsky
East of EdenJohn Steinbeck- May
Seeing That FreesRob Burbea 
The Grace of KingsKen Liu- Mar
Indian-ishPriya Krishna, Ritu Krishna 
Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityEliezer Yudkowsky- Feb
The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro 
Gift from the SeaAnne Morrow Lindbergh- Jan
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
- Nov
History of Western PhilosophyBertrand Russell - Sep
Metaphors We Live ByGeorge Lakoff, Mark Johnson 
A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson
The Powers That BeDavid Halberstam- Aug
Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl - Jul
The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas S. Kuhn - The Dramatic UniverseJ.G. Bennett
The BookAlan Watts
Standing at the EdgeJoan Halifax- Jun
LovingkindnessSharon Salzberg - Mar
Turtles All the Way DownJohn Green 
The Bhagavad GitaEknath Easwaran- Feb
BehaveRobert M. Sapolsky - Jan
Upper HandSherrell Dorsey 
Trying Not to TryEdward Slingerland
- Dec
Why Zebras Don't Get UlcersRobert M. Sapolsky - Nov
My Kitchen YearRuth Reichl - Jul
The House of GucciSara Gay Forden 
A Liberated MindSteven C. Hayes
The Person and the SituationLee Ross, Richard E. Nisbett
How to Write One SongJeff Tweedy- Jun
Dining InAlison Roman 
Zen Mind, Beginner's MindShunryu Suzuki
The Haven's Kitchen Cooking SchoolAlison Cayne
- Dec
The Book of EquanimityGerry Shishin Wick - Oct
Love's KnowledgeMartha C. Nussbaum 
In the Dream HouseCarmen Maria Machado- Sep
Merchants of CultureJohn B. Thompson - Aug
The PublisherAlan Brinkley 
The ProphetKahlil Gibran- Jul
Autobiography of RedAnne Carson 
What Your Birthday Reveals About YouPhyllis Vega- Jun
The Unknown UnknownMark Forsyth - May
These TruthsJill Lepore 
White Apples and the Taste of StoneDonald Hall
Too Much to KnowAnn M. Blair
Book of LongingLeonard Cohen- AprMorphological AstronomyFritz Zwicky
- Mar
The PlagueAlbert Camus 
No Name in the StreetJames Baldwin- Jan
A Field Guide to American HousesVirginia Savage McAlester 
The Messy MiddleScott Belsky
- Oct
The Second MountainDavid Brooks 
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern ScienceE. A. Burtt
ScaleGeoffrey West- Sep
Shoe DogPhil Knight 
Conscious CapitalismJohn Mackey, Raj Sisodia- Jul
The MunicipalistsSeth Fried - Jun
The Meeting of East and WestF. S. C. Northrop - May
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald - Apr
The Paper Menagerie and Other StoriesKen Liu - Mar
Lightning ManKenneth Silverman - Feb
A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki - Jan
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as PhotosJohn Berger
- Dec
Essays and AphorismsArthur Schopenhauer - Oct
ContactCarl Sagan - Sep
Miss Leavitt's StarsGeorge Johnson - Jul
PoeticsAristotle - Jun
See You in the CosmosJack Cheng - Apr
A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking 
House of LeavesMark Z. Danielewski- Mar
Stephen HawkingKitty Ferguson 
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck
On WritingStephen King
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour BookstoreRobin Sloan
SourdoughRobin Sloan- Jan
The Innovator's SolutionClayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
- Dec
Between the Devil and the DragonEric Hoffer - Nov
This Time Is DifferentCarmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff - Oct
A Random Walk Down Wall StreetBurton G. Malkiel - Sep
The Moral LandscapeSam Harris - Jul
A First Course in CalculusSerge Lang - Jun
Wherever You Go, There You AreJon Kabat-Zinn 
LilaRobert M. Pirsig- May
Chase, Chance, and CreativityJames H. Austin 
The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames Gleick- Mar
The Tree of KnowledgeHumberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela - The Self-Organizing UniverseErich Jantsch
ChaosJames Gleick- Feb
Heart of Darkness and Other TalesJoseph Conrad - Jan
Notes on the Synthesis of FormChristopher Alexander 
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
The Market Guide for Young WritersKathy Henderson
Time’s Arrow, Time’s CycleStephen Jay Gould
On LookingAlexandra Horowitz
Operating Manual for Spaceship EarthR. Buckminster Fuller
- Dec
Micro-ISVBob Walsh 
The Innovator's DilemmaClayton M. Christensen
Working DaysJohn Steinbeck
The Case for Modern ManCharles Frankel
The Affluent SocietyJohn Kenneth Galbraith
What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningHaruki Murakami- Nov
WorkingStuds Terkel 
Explaining Social BehaviorJon Elster- Oct
Being MortalAtul Gawande
