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reading log

books to read

books read

  • 2024
    • everything keeps dissolving: conversations with coil
    • the far side collections 1 and 5
    • russell edson - little mr. prose poem
    • tidy first? - kent beck
    • italo calvino - mr. palomar
    • stefan zweig - chess story
    • Robert Sapolsky - Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will
    • Thomas Bernhard - Concrete (reread)
  • 2023
    • aldous huxley - brave new world
    • george packer - last best hope
    • thomas bernhard - the cheap eaters (reread)
    • charles petzold - code
    • Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    • hitchhiker's guide to the universe
    • Chris Miller - Chip War
    • john romero - doomguy
    • philip k. dick - a scanner darkly
    • robert musil - intimite ties
    • yukio mishima - star
    • charles simic - master of disguises
    • cesar aira - fulgentius
    • kobo abe - secret rendezvous (reread)
    • Industrial Culture Handbook: Re # 6/7
  • 2022
    • Scott, James C. - Seeing Like a State- How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
    • little schemer
    • werner herzog - twilight world
    • The One-straw Revolution by Fukuoka, Masanobu
    • polya - how to solve it
    • leonard koren - what artists do
    • philip k. dick - three stigmata of palmer eldritch
    • cal newport - digital minimalism
    • orwell - 1984
    • steven wilson - limited edition of one
    • how to do nothing by odell
    • flowers for algernon (short story version)
    • kolbert - under a white sky
    • bill bryson - a short history of nearly everything
    • jared diamond - guns, germs and steel
    • Early Retirement Extreme - Jacob Lund Fisker
    • the epic struggle of the internet of things - bruce sterling
  • 2021
    • philip k dick - we can remember it for you wholesale
    • England's hidden reverse - keenan
    • Lysaker - Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    • neil degrasse tyson - letters from an astrophysicist
    • sam harris - end of faith
    • edward burger, michael starbird - the five elements of effective thinking
    • edward snowden - permanent record
    • cesar aira - the dinner
    • kolbert - sixth extinction
    • robert sapolsky - behave
    • Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    • sam harris: free will
    • hackers by steven levy
    • game engine black book: wolfenstein 3d
    • ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now by jaron lanier
  • pre-2021 assorted dump
    • leonard koren: almost all of the books
    • masters of doom
    • mathematics: a new golden age by devlin
    • orwell: animal farm
    • nets, puzzles and postmen
    • Ted Kaczynski - Industrial Society and Its Future
    • miles autobiography (quincy troupe)
    • Selected Ambient Works Vol II - Marc Weidenbaum
    • emil cioran
    • michael brodsky - circuits (partial)
    • Daily Rituals: How artists work
    • Frankl: Man's Search for Meaning
    • Algorithms to Live By
    • Borges Selected Fictions
    • david markson
    • yukio mishima - confessions of a mask
    • yukio mishima - the sound of waves
    • wreckers of civilisation (throbbing gristle book)
    • Faust - Stretch Out Time 1970-1975 by Andy Wilson
    • The Wire Primers: A Guide to Modern Music
    • alvin lucier: music 109
    • jacqueline caux: luc ferrari: almost nothing
    • cesar aira - varamo
    • cesar aira - ghosts
    • cesar aira - An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
    • cesar aira - shantytown
    • iain banks - wasp factory
    • the book of tea
    • horacio castellanos moya
    • michel leiris - aurora
    • georges perec
    • julio cortazar
    • daniil kharms
    • gertrude stein
    • gary snyder - look out
    • nabokov - lolita
    • nabokov - pale fire
    • thomas ligotti
    • anton chekhov stories
    • bruno schulz
    • robert walser
    • philip k dick
    • italo calvino
    • thomas bernhard
      • gargoyles
      • frost
      • extinction
      • gathering evidence
      • my prizes
      • yes
      • correction
      • old masters
      • the loser
    • russell edson
    • epictetus
    • alan weisman - the world without us
    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - flow
    • Witold Gombrowicz - Cosmos
    • flann o'brien - third policeman
    • raymond queneau
    • Boris Vian - the foam of the days
    • jean-paul sartre - nausea
    • djuna barnes - nightwood
    • fernando pessoa
    • stuxnet: countdown to zero day
    • roger zelazny - chronicles of amber
    • anna kavan
    • 10 print
    • john berger - ways of seeing
    • Wave (Deraniyagala book)
    • giorgio chirico hebdomeros
    • bataille - story of the eye
    • jarry Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
    • maldoror
    • poe
    • lynch: catching the big fish
    • lovecraft
    • bradbury: fahrenheit 451
    • Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms Paperback by Eugenia Bone
    • neal stephenson: cryptonomicon
    • neal stephenson: snow crash
    • algernon blackwood
    • knut hamsun - hunger
    • ohle: motorman
    • patchen
    • andre gide
    • julien gracq
    • clarice lispector - agua viva
    • aurelia de nerval
    • julio cortazar - hopscotch
    • wolfgang bauer - the feverhead
    • unica zurn - dark spring
    • virginia woolf - orlando
    • hesse - demian
    • jose saramago - death with interruptions
    • inconspicuous consumption
    • ayn rand - the fountainhead
    • why does the world exist?
    • frank herbert - dune
    • vonnegut: cat's cradle
    • the prince - machiavelli
    • Moravagine - blaise cendrars
    • Là-Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans
    • power of habit
    • eat that frog
    • alfred jarry
    • brion gysin - the process
    • mammal's notebook satie
    • day of the locust nathaniel west
    • voltaire candide
    • Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
    • tom robbins - still life with woodpecker
    • haruki murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (I think? Pretty sure I read a story collection in 2008 or so)
    • Ninjalicious: access all areas
    • Gérard de Nerval - Aurélia
    • breton - nadja
    • lord of the flies
    • angela's ashes
    • Rilke
    • james clavell

kids books read

  • 2023
    • doctor desoto
    • blueberries for sal
    • Tiffky Doofky
    • Old Mother Hubbard and Her Wonderful Dog by James Marshall
    • Shrek
    • Zeke Pippin
    • The Amazing Bone
  • 2021
    • uncle elephant
    • frog and toad
    • owl at home
    • little pig
    • george and martha
  • pre-2021
    • mud book by john cage
    • tintin
    • The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
    • Corduroy Don Freeman
    • redwall
    • wind in the willows
    • mrs frisby and the rats of nimh
    • cricket in times square
    • Stuart Little
    • Little Gorilla
    • Phantom Tollbooth
    • little matchstick girl
    • boxcar children
    • goodnight moon
    • mike mulligan
    • the little fur family
    • pippi longstocking
    • ruby mae has something to say by david small
    • Imogene's Antlers
    • the little house
    • the velveteen rabbit
    • bread and jam for frances
    • caps for sale
    • michael rosen the sad book
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