library

"but i will tell you squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood."

— cormac mccarthy

books I own or have read or both. feel free to email about anything we might've read together on the list to chat.

i also have a linkhut where i save short-form videos or articles.

• Abelson, Harold and Sussman, Gerald Jay with Sussman, Julie - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Second Edition
• Adams, Douglas and Carwardine, Mark - Last Chance to See
• Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Anderson, Benedict - Imagined Communities - Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
• Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
• Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
• Bailey, Thomas - The American Pageant: A History of the Republic
• Beard, Mary - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Bevins, Vincent - The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
• Beowulf, translated by Raffel, Burton
• Black, David A. and Leo, Joseph - The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Third Edition
• Blumenthal, Max - Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
• Bodner, Jon - Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real World Go Programming
• Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
• Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles
• Brands, H.W. - Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Bryant, Victor - Yet Another Introduction to Analysis
• Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Camus, Albert - The Myth of Sisyphus
• Camus, Albert - The Stranger
• Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
• Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Shadow
• le Carré, John - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

• de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote Part I
• de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote Part II
• Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
• Chomsky, Noam - Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
• Chomsky, Noam and Herman, Edward S. - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
• Chomsky, Noam - Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
• Chomsky, Noam - The Essential Chomsky
• Chomsky, Noam - Who Rules the World?
• Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
• Cortázar, Julio - Rayuela
• Crichton, Michael - Dragon Teeth
• Crichton, Michael - Jurassic Park
• Crichton, Michael - Prey
• Crichton, Michael - The Lost World
• Dawkins, Richard - The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
• Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion
• Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene
• Dazai, Osamu - No Longer Human
• Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
• Douglas, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
• Duncan, Mike - Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
• Durrell, Martin - Hammer's German Grammar and Usage: Seventh Edition
• Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho
• Ernst, Carl W. - Sufism: An Introduction to the Mystical Tradition of Islam
• Euclid, illustrated by Byrne, Oliver - Elements of Euclid: The First Six Books with Coloured Diagrams and Symbols
• Figes, Orlando - Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
• Fizgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
• Fizgerald, F. Scott - This Side of Paradise
• Flanagan, David - Javascript: The Definitive Guide, Seventh Edition
• Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything is Illuminated
• Foer, Jonathan Safran - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• Frank, Anne - The Diary of a Young Girl
• Frank, Thomas - What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
• Gaiman, Neil - American Gods
• Goel, Siddhant - Tracking Personal Finances Using Python
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns - Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
• Graeber, David - Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
• Graham, Paul - ANSI Common Lisp
• Graham, Paul - Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• Graves, Robert - I, Claudius
• Greenwald, Glenn - How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
• Hafez - The nightingales are drunk

• Hamilton, Edith - Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
• Hansen, Harry - The Civil War: A History
• Hansen, Valerie - The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600
• Harari, Yuval Noah - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Haverbeke, Marijn - Eloquent Javascript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming
• Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time
• Hawking, Stephen - The Universe in a Nutshell
• Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
• Helmreich, William B. - The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
• Herbert, Frank - Dune
• Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha
• Homer - The Iliad
• Homer - The Odyssey
• Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Hosseini, Khaled - And the Mountains Echoed
• Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
• Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables (english)
• Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
• Huxley, Aldous - Island
• Immerwahr, Daniel - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
• Isenberg, Nancy - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

• Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
• James, C.L.R. - The Black Jacobins: Tousaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
• Jefferson, Thomas - The Jefferson Bible
• Kafka, Franz - Der Prozess
• Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
• Kafka, Franz - The Trial
• Karp, Matthew - This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
• Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World
• Kernighan, Brian W., Weinberger, Peter J., and Aho, Alfred V. - The AWK Programming Language
• Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M. - The C Programming Language
• Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M. - The C Programming Language: Second Edition
• King Jr., Martin Luther - Why We Can't Wait
• Kinzer, Stephen - All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
• La Santa Biblia
• Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E. - Inherit the Wind
• Lepore, Jill - The Whites of their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
• Lewis, C.S. - Out of the Silent Planet
• Lewis, C.S. - Perelandra
• Lewis, C.S. - That Hideous Strength
• Lockhart, Paul - A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
• Lovell, Julia - Maoism: A Global History
• Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
• Ma, Ling - Severance
• Machiavelli, Niccoló - The Prince
• Mantel, Hilary - Wolf Hall
• Márquez, Gabriel García - Cien años de soledad
• Márquez, Gabriel García - El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
• Martin, George R.R. - A Clash of Kings
• Martin, George R.R. - A Dance with Dragons
• Martin, George R.R. - A Feast for Crows
• Martin, George R.R. - A Game of Thrones
• Martin, George R.R. - A Storm of Swords
• Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich - The Communist Manifesto
• Marx, Karl - Das Kapital (english)
• Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend
• McCarthy, Cormac - Blood Meridian
• McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men
• McCarthy, Cormac - Stella Maris
• McCarthy, Cormac - The Passenger
• McCarthy, Cormac - The Road
• McDowell, Josh - More Than a Carpenter
• Metz, Sandi - Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
• Mishima, Yukio - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
• Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
• Morrison, Toni - Beloved
• Mottahedeh, Roy - The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran

• Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore
• Murakami, Haruki - Men Without Women
• Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood
• Novick, Peter - The Holocaust in American Life
• Orwell, George - Animal Farm
• Orwell, George - Burmese Days
• Orwell, George - Down and Out in Paris and London
• Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia
• Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Orwell, George - Rebelión en la granja
• Orwell, George - 1984 (deutsch)
• Orwell, George - 1984 (español)
• Orwell, George - The Road to Wigan Pier
• Ostler, Nicholas - Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
• Paine, Thomas - Age of Reason
• Paine, Thomas - Common Sense
• Paine, Thomas - Rights of Man
• Paxton, Robert O. - The Anatomy of Fascism
• Perlstein, Rick - Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

• Perlstein, Rick - Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
• Perlstein, Rick - Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
• Pinter, Charles C. - A Book of Abstroct Algebra: Second Edition
• Pirsig, Robert M. - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
• Plato - The Republic
• Pratchett, Terry and Gaiman, Neil - Good Omens
• Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
• Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead
• Sagan, Carl - Contact
• de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine - The Little Prince
• Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
• Schimmel, Annemarie - Mystical Dimensions of Islam
• Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
• Sells, Michael - Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qur'an, Mi'raj, Poetic and Theological Writings
• Shakespeare, Willam - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Promethius
• Shirer, William L. - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
• Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
• Snowden, Edward - Permanent Record
• Snyder, Timothy - Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
• de Spinoza, Benedict - Ethics
• Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men
• Steinbeck, John - The Pearl
• Süskind, Patrick - Das Parfum: Die Geschichte enes Mörders
• Süskind, Patrick - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

• The Apocryphal Gospels
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Book of Common Prayer
• The Holy Bible: King James Version
• The Jewish Annotated New Testament
• The New American Bible
• Thompson, Hunter S. - Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
• Thoreau, Henry David - Civil Disobedience
• Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - Der kleine Hobbit
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Fellowship of the Ring
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Hobbit
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Return of the King
• Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Two Towers
• Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
• Tombs, Robert - The English and their History
• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
• Trudeau, Richard - Introduction to Graph Theory
• Trump, Donald and Schwarz, Tony - The Art of the Deal
• Twain, Mark - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Twain, Mark - Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache
• Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Twain, Mark - The Awful German Language
• Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade
• Wallace, Lew. - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• Ward, Brian - How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know, 3rd Edition
• Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
• Wells, H.G. - The War of the World
• Williams, Tennessee - A Streetcar Named Desire
• Yanagihara, Hanya - A Little Life
• Zeihan, Peter - The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
• Zürcher, Erik J. - Turkey: A Modern History
• Zweig, Stefan - Shooting Stars: Ten Historic Miniatures
• Zweig, Stefan - Sternstunden der Menschheit: Zwölf historische Miniaturen