library

books for 2025

fiction

  • To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

spirituality

  • Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
  • Works of Love (Søren Kierkegaard)
  • Fear and Trembling (Søren Kierkegaard)
  • The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan W. Watts)
  • Confession (Leo Tolstoy) ✅
  • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) ✅

self / art

  • The Sense of Style (Steven Pinker)
  • The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)
  • In Praise of Shadows (Jun’ichirō Tanizaki) ✅

tech/world

  • Breakneck (Dan Wang)

books for 2024

  1. How Proust Can Change Your Life (Alain de Botton) ✅
  2. Man's Search for meaning (Viktor Frankl) ✅
  3. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (Willian Strunk) ✅
  4. Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke) ✅
  5. Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han) ✅
  6. Zero to One (Peter Thiel) ✅
  7. Several Short Sentences About Writing (Verlyn Klinkenborg) ✅
  8. How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Marcus Tullius Cicero) ✅
  9. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Naval Ravikant) ✅
  10. Make Something Wonderful (Steve Jobs) ✅

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ideas i want to revisit

list of essays

paris review interviews

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