All the books I'm supposed to have read.
Published
May 2024
Updated
May 2025
Slug /anti-library
Type
list
A Perfect Vacuum
Brideshead Revisited
Axiomatic
The Everything Music Composition Book
Piranesi
Invisible Cities
Language and Literature
Lord of Light
The Lady Tasting Tea
Neuromancer
the making of karateka
Fall Revolution
Piranesi
Ra by qtnm
Swimming Across
High Output Management
The Raw Shark Texts
Hyperion
Watchmen
The Name of the Rose
The Girl with All the Gifts
Use of Weapons
The Mark and the Void
Annihilation
All the Light We Cannot See
Unsong
Red Plenty
Piranesi
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Theses on the Philosophy of History
In the Vineyard of the Text
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
The Quantum Thief
Anthem
Pascal’s Apology
Gambling on Development
Rhythms of the Brain
Human, Forever
Hacker’s delight
Accelerated Expertise
The Hedgehog & The Fox
The Feather Men
The Mind-Body Problem
A Complicated Kindness
The Book of the New Sun
Diaspora by Greg Egan
Against Rousseau
Husserl’s phenomenology
Agnar Mykle and Knut Hamsun
Music: A Subversive history
V.
The Open Society and its Enemies
Lacan
Gravity’s Rainbow
The unwomanly face of war
Axiomatic
Ficciones
Bleak House
Dean Koontz’s “Elsewhere”
Dusk (James Salter)
Two Cultures
These Precious Days
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
The Origin of Wealth
Chronic City
Recursion
The Glass Hotel
Too Loud a Solitude
Principles of Population Genetics
A Gentleman in Moscow
Anathem
Player of Games
The History of Scarcity
Naked Economics
Life: A users manual
On food and cooking
Caro
The Mystery of Capital
Ethics
The Present Age
Down and Out in London and Paris
Oglivey on Advertising
White by Kenya Hara
Conversations With Friends
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
A Grief Observed
Money And Government
Second Nature
Operating Systems: Three Easy Parts
Why We Talk
Euclid’s Elements
The Waves
Godel, Escher, Bach
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Things Hidden Since the Foundation Of The World
The Mote in Gods Eye
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Unfolding of Language.
A Splendid Wickedness
The Dream-Child’s Progress
The Experience of God
Capitalism and Freedom
Development as Freedom
In Service of the Republic
From Third World to First
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations
How Asia Works
Stubborn Attachments
Ringworld
Orality and Literacy
Snow Crash
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