reads

These are some of the things I've read in my adulthood, since finishing university, in approximately chronological order. Some left a stronger impression than others. I revel in juicing art and discussing readings—"Solitary reading is about as bad an addiction as solitary drinking," says Mortimer J. Adler. Please send me your recommendations if anything comes to mind!

• 人間失格 (No Longer Human) by 太宰治 (Osamu Dazai)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
• Lectures on the Philosophy of History by G.W.F. Hegel
• Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
• Science as Vocation by Max Weber
• On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant (an essay) by David Graeber
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
• Principia Ethica by G.E. Moore
• Three Historical Philosophies of Education: Aristotle, Kant, and Dewey by William K. Frankena
• The Aims of Education by Alfred North Whitehead
• On Education by Bertrand Russell
• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
• Mind in Society by L.S. Vygotsky
• Building Suburbia by Dolores Hayden
• Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage by Nomy Arpaly
• White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van derk Kolk
• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• In Praise of Idleness (an essay) by Bertrand Russell
• Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
• The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb
• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Politics and the English Language (an essay) by George Orwell
• 陰翳礼讃 (In Praise of Shadows) by 谷崎潤一郎 (Jun’ichiro Tanizaki)
• Break the Good Girl Myth by Majo Molfino
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Stoner by John Williams
• Slow Days Fast Company by Eve Babitz
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
• Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
• Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
• The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
• The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
• コンビニ人間 (Convenience Store Woman) by 村田沙耶香 (Sayaka Murata)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Mutual Aid by Dean Spade