Books and audiobooks

The shelf.

A searchable record of what I am reading now and what I have finished.

111 entries

Currently reading

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Cover of The Life of the Mind
BookIn progress

The Life of the Mind

Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy

Cover of J R
BookIn progress

J R

William Gaddis, John David Smith, Frederick R. Karl

All-time favorites

Books I keep returning to.

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Cover of Jerusalem
Audiobook

Jerusalem

Alan Moore

Cover of Infinite Jest
Book

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Cover of Foucault’s Pendulum
Book

Foucault’s Pendulum

Umberto Eco, William Weaver

Cover of The Human Condition
Book

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt, Margaret Canovan

Archive

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Cover of This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Book

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

David Foster Wallace

Cover of A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Book

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins

Cover of The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Book

The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

Tom Griffiths

Cover of My Name Is Red
Book

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk, Erdağ M. Göknar

Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Book

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Ezra F. Vogel

Cover of On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
Ebook

On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines

Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

Cover of The Pale King
Book

The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five
Book

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cover of The Crying of Lot 49
Book

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Cover of Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Book

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

David Foster Wallace

Cover of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Book

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

Cover of Chronicles Of A Liquid Society: Posthumous Essays on Culture, Politics, and Ideas by the Author of The Name of the Rose
Book

Chronicles Of A Liquid Society: Posthumous Essays on Culture, Politics, and Ideas by the Author of The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

Cover of Dictionary of the Khazars
Book

Dictionary of the Khazars

Milorad Pavić

Cover of A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Book

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel

Cover of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Book

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Cover of Romeo and Juliet
Book

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Cover of The War of the Worlds
Book

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke

Cover of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
Book

2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

Arthur C. Clarke

Cover of The Time Machine
Book

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells, Greg Bear, Carlo Pagetti

Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Ebook

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson, Jack Womack

Cover of The Old Man and the Sea
Book

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Cover of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Book

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye, Mark Hallaq, Amanda Lee

Cover of The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Book

The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)

Dan Brown

Cover of City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
Book

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

Cassandra Clare

Cover of Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Book

Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)

Jojo Moyes

Cover of The Fault in Our Stars
Book

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Cover of Fahrenheit 451
Book

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Cover of Project Hail Mary
Book

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Cover of Gravity’s Rainbow
Book

Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Cover of Doctor Faustus
Book

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann, John E. Woods

Cover of The Master and Margarita
Book

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Ellendea Proffer, Hans Fronius, Михаил Булгаков

Cover of On Ugliness
Book

On Ugliness

Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

Cover of Killing Commendatore
Book

Killing Commendatore

Haruki Murakami

Cover of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Book

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

Cover of 雪国 [Snow Country]
Book

雪国 [Snow Country]

Yasunari Kawabata

Cover of 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Book

1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)

Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel

Cover of Zoo
Book

Zoo

Otsuichi, Terry Gallagher

Cover of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Unknown, N.K. Sandars, John Maier, Herbert Mason, John H. Marks, Morris Jastrow Jr.

Cover of Walden & Civil Disobedience
Book

Walden & Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau, W.S. Merwin

Cover of Faust, First Part
Book

Faust, First Part

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm

Cover of Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Book

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens

Cover of Wuthering Heights
Book

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn, Charlotte Brontë, John Bugg, Robert Heindel

Cover of A Clockwork Orange
Book

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

Cover of The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Book

The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)

Dr. Seuss

Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Book

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Douglas Adams

Cover of The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Book

The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)

C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes

Cover of Jane Eyre
Book

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason

Cover of Kafka on the Shore
Book

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

Cover of History of Beauty
Book

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen

Cover of The Call of the Wild / White Fang
Book

The Call of the Wild / White Fang

Jack London

Cover of Faust
Book

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Kaufmann

Cover of Heart of Darkness
Book

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Cover of War and Peace
Book

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude

Cover of Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
Book

Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth

William Shakespeare, David Bevington, David Scott Kastan

Cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Book

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Cover of The Plague
Book

The Plague

Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

Cover of Dead Souls
Book

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol, Robert A. Maguire

Cover of Doctor Zhivago
Book

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak, John Bayley, Max Hayward, Manya Harari

Cover of The Problem of China
Book

The Problem of China

Bertrand Russell

Cover of Night
Book

Night

Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel, François Mauriac

Cover of Othello
Book

Othello

William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

Cover of The Prince
Book

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez, W.K. Marriott, Denis Daly, Μαρία Κασωτάκη

Cover of The Scarlet Letter
Book

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nina Baym, Thomas E. Connolly

Cover of A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
Book

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

George R.R. Martin

Cover of To Kill a Mockingbird
Book

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo
Book

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss

Cover of The Grapes of Wrath
Book

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Cover of The Brothers Karamazov
Book

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Cover of The Metamorphosis
Book

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

Cover of Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Book

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

Cover of The Call of the Wild
Book

The Call of the Wild

Jack London, Avi

Cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Book

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

Cover of Walden or, Life in the Woods
Book

Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibben

Cover of Skeleton Crew
Book

Skeleton Crew

Stephen King

Cover of 2666
Book

2666

Roberto Bolaño

Cover of The Phantom of the Opera
Book

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Cover of 1984
Book

1984

George Orwell

Cover of Our Ancestors
Book

Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino

Cover of The Prague Cemetery
Book

The Prague Cemetery

Umberto Eco, Richard Dixon

Cover of The Name of the Rose
Book

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco, William Weaver

Cover of Brave New World
Book

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Cover of Anna Karenina
Book

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Maude, Dieter Wellershoff, Bruno Goetz, Lev Tolstoj

Cover of The Time Machine / The Invisible Man
Book

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells, Alfred Mac Adam

Cover of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Book

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall

Cover of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Book

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods

Cover of The Picture of Dorian Gray
Book

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey Eugenides

Cover of The Little Prince
Book

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard

Cover of Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
Book

Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)

Douglas Adams

Cover of Pride and Prejudice
Book

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen, Anna Quindlen

Cover of The Secret Garden
Book

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cover of Les Misérables
Book

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo, Norman MacAfee, Charles E. Wilbour, Lee Fahnestock, Isabel Florence Hapgood

Cover of The Stranger
Book

The Stranger

Albert Camus, Matthew Ward

Cover of The Great Gatsby
Book

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cover of The Catcher in the Rye
Book

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Cover of Animal Farm
Book

Animal Farm

George Orwell, Ann Patchett, Téa Obreht

Cover of The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels, #1)
Book

The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Graphic Novels, #1)

Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan, José Villarrubia, Attila Futaki

Cover of The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
Book

The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)

Rick Riordan

Cover of The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
Book

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

Rick Riordan

Cover of The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
Ebook

The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)

Rick Riordan

Cover of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Book

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

Cover of The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
Book

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)

Rick Riordan

Cover of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Book

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

Cover of The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Book

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)

Rick Riordan

Cover of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Book

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)

J.K. Rowling