Bookshelf

Below is a list of books that I have finished. Click on column names to sort the list. Here is my rating scale:

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Phenomenal

Good

Not recommended

Only read if your life depends on it

Title	Author	Published	Pages	Rating
The Secret History	Donna Tartt	1992	559	4
Stardust	Neil Gaiman	1999	248	3
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World	Andrea Wulf	2015	473	3
Braiding Sweetgrass	Robin Wall Kimmerer	2013	408	3
The God of the Woods	Liz Moore	2024	490	2
The Crisis of the Modern World	René Guénon	1927	136	4
The House in the Cerulean Sea	T.J. Klune	2020	394	1
Politics and the English Language	George Orwell	1946	30	3
Crooked Plow	Itamar Vieira Junior	2019	288	3
Apology	Plato	-380	22	4
An Introduction to Christian Mysticism	Jason M. Baxter	2021	208	3
The Language of Creation	Matthieu Pageau	2018	354	4
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	239	3
The Odyssey	Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator)	-700	560	5
The Number of the Beast	Robert A. Heinlein	1980	511	2
Titus Alone (Gormenghast, #3)	Mervyn Peake	1959	284	3
Mere Christianity	C.S. Lewis	1942	168	3
The End of Eternity	Isaac Asimov	1971	192	3
The Universe in a Single Atom	Dalai Lama XIV	2006	224	2
Living Buddha, Living Christ	Thich Nhat Hanh	1997	218	3
The Discarded Image	C.S. Lewis	1964	242	4
Frankenstein	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	1818	260	3
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	1943	694	4
Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1969	275	3
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	1967	403	4
Half the Sky	Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn	2009	294	4
Anthem	Ayn Rand	1946	105	3
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	1962	192	3
Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)	Mervyn Peake	1950	505	5
The Lady or the Tiger?	Frank R. Stockton	1882	10	3
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976	Frank Dikotter	2016	396	3
The Idea of Nature	R.G. Collingwood	1945	177	3
Watchmen	Alan Moore	1987	416	3
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	1952	96	3
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass	1845	158	4
Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)	Mervyn Peake	1946	396	4
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	453	4
Hayduke Lives! (Monkey Wrench Gang, #2)	Edward Abbey	1990	320	3
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)	Edward Abbey	1975	421	4
The Portuguese: A Modern History	Barry Hatton	2015	256	3
Lying	Sam Harris	2011	47	3
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)	Ernest Cline	2011	374	1
The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein	2008	321	2
Meditations of a Solitary Walker	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1782	54	1
Bless the Beasts and Children	Glendon Swarthout	1970	192	4
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	1989	637	4
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	1995	603	4
Rationality: From AI to Zombies	Eliezer Yudkowsky	2015	1813	4
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	1605	1023	4
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)	Frank Herbert	1965	604	5
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	1967	417	5
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	-500	273	5
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)	Orson Scott Card	1985	324	5
Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	1922	152	5
Worm (Parahumans, #1)	Wildbow	2013	6680	3
The Coddling of the American Mind	Jonathan Haidt	2018	352	3
Nature's Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty	Ivette Perfecto	2009	242	2
Journey to Ixtlan	Carlos Castaneda	1972	272	4
Feed	M.T. Anderson	2002	308	2
Stubborn Attachments	Tyler Cowen	2018	127	4
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963	Christopher Paul Curtis	1995	224	3
The Madman	Kahlil Gibran	1918	80	3
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)	Suzanne Collins	2010	398	3
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)	Suzanne Collins	2009	391	3
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)	Suzanne Collins	2008	374	3
Sad Pictures For Children	John Campbell	2013	199	4
Pictures For Sad Children	John Campbell	2009	197	4
Dreads	Francesco Mastalia	1999	144	3
A Year As A Ghost	The Wonder Years	2012	199	2
Geography Club (Russel Middlebrook, #1)	Brent Hartinger	2003	226	2
Before I Go to Sleep	S.J. Watson	2011	359	2
Tuck Everlasting	Natalie Babbitt	1975	148	3
The Case for God	Karen Armstrong	2001	406	2
Saved	Ben Hewitt	2013	224	2
Inferno	Dante Alighieri	1307	490	4
Galápagos	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1985	324	3
Adjusted American	Snell Putney	1964	210	3
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter	J. Nozipo Maraire	1995	208	4
Doc Susie	Virginia Cornell	1991	225	3
2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke	1968	297	3
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)	Kim Stanley Robinson	1996	768	4
Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling	Patrick Chabal	2009	224	4
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	1968	244	4
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	1953	175	2
Demian	Hermann Hesse	1919	109	3
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	1844	1276	4
The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	1931	418	3
The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	1998	546	4
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein	1959	263	3
Country Wisdom & Know-How	M. John Storey	2004	488	4
Night	Elie Wiesel	1956	115	4
The Night Circus	Erin Morgenstern	2011	391	1
Rage (Courtney, #6)	Wilbur Smith	1987	896	3
The Burning Shore (Courtney, #4)	Wilbur Smith	1985	640	3
The Geography of Bliss	Eric Weiner	2008	335	2
Dark Places	Gillian Flynn	2009	349	2
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls	David Sedaris	2013	275	1
Wherever You Go, There You Are	Jon Kabat-Zinn	1994	304	3
Unsong	Scott Alexander	2017	658	4
The Chomsky Reader	Noam Chomsky	1987	492	2
The Permaculture Handbook	Peter Bane	2012	480	3
Gaia's Garden	Toby Hemenway	2001	240	3
Critique of Pure Reason	Immanuel Kant	1781	796	3
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	David Hume	1748	96	4
A Treatise of Human Nature	David Hume	1740	434	3
Beyond Good and Evil	Friedrich Nietzsche	1886	240	4
Meditations on First Philosophy	René Descartes	1641	59	2
The Righteous Mind	Jonathan Haidt	2012	419	3
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	2003	371	3
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951	277	2
The Time Machine	H.G. Wells	1895	118	3
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960	324	3
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story	Douglas Adams	1996	832	4
Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945	122	3
Dead Aid	Dambisa Moyo	2009	188	3
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	1988	197	3
Let Me Finish	Udo Grashoff	2004	192	3
Utilitarianism	John Stuart Mill	1861	71	4
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes	Chris Crutcher	1993	304	2
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	1959	311	4
Strange Pilgrims	Gabriel García Márquez	1992	208	3
33 Snowfish	Adam Rapp	2003	192	3
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Ken Kesey	1962	325	3
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach	1970	112	3
On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	1859	187	4
1984	George Orwell	1949	328	4
Encounters with the Archdruid	John McPhee	1971	256	3
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)	Kim Stanley Robinson	1993	624	4
Desert Solitaire	Edward Abbey	1968	337	3
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!	Richard P. Feynman	1985	391	4
Animal Liberation	Peter Singer	1977	352	4
The Double Helix	James D. Watson	1968	143	3
Waking Up	Sam Harris	2014	256	3
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	2001	460	3
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	1932	268	3
The Stranger	Albert Camus	1942	123	4
Deadeye Dick	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1982	271	3
Foundation (Foundation, #1)	Isaac Asimov	1951	244	4
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1973	303	3
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1963	179	4
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	1965	290	3
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)	Philip Pullman	2000	465	3
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)	Philip Pullman	1997	326	3
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)	Philip Pullman	1995	399	4
Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	1997	227	3
South of the Border, West of the Sun	Haruki Murakami	1992	190	2
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	1869	320	3
Through Our Eyes Only?	Marian Stamp Dawkins	1993	206	3
Outliers: The Story of Success	Malcolm Gladwell	2008	309	2
The Tipping Point	Malcolm Gladwell	2000	301	2
Radical Simplicity	Jim Merkel	2003	248	3
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	1937	103	3
Daughter of Fortune	Isabel Allende	1998	432	4
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	1985	348	4
The Gates of November	Chaim Potok	1996	270	4
Guns, Germs, and Steel	Jared Diamond	1997	498	4
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	279	3
The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)	Robert Jordan	1990	705	1
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)	Robert Jordan	1990	814	1
The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)	Bryce Courtenay	1989	544	3
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	2012	313	2
Heretics of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #5)	Frank Herbert	1984	471	4
Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #6)	Frank Herbert	1985	436	3
Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2)	Frank Herbert	1969	331	2
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #4)	Frank Herbert	1981	454	4
Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, #3)	Frank Herbert	1976	408	4
Time Enough for Love	Robert A. Heinlein	1973	589	4
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein	1966	288	3
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert A. Heinlein	1961	525	3
Green Development	William M. Adams	1990	480	4
The Prince and the Pauper	Mark Twain	1881	240	3
Revolutionary Road	Richard Yates	1961	355	4
Freedom	Jonathan Franzen	2010	562	3
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)	Kim Stanley Robinson	1992	572	4