Currently
| NAME | AUTHOR | DATE STARTED |
|---|---|---|
| The Republic (c. 300 BC) | Plato | |
| Should You Believe Wikipedia? | Amy Bruckman | 2023-09-21 |
On Hold
| NAME | AUTHOR | DATE STARTED |
|---|---|---|
| The History of Western Philosophy (1945) | Bertrand Russell | 2022-12-29 |
| The Case for Christ (1998) | Lee Strobel | 2022-07-15 |
| The New Testament | Various | 2022-03-01 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) | Douglas Hofstader | 2022-01-15 |
| Human Behavioral Biology | Robert Sapolosky | 2021-12-01 |
To Read: Education
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 (c. 300 BC) |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Emile |
To Read: Fiction (-1800s)
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (c. 1321) |
| Voltaire | Candide (1759) |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote (1815) |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick (1851) |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from Underground (1864) |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment (1866) |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot (1869) |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov (1880) |
| Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace (1869) |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina (1878) |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust (1876) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) |
To Read: Fiction (1900-1950)
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Marcel Proust | In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) |
| Franz Kafka | The Castle (1926) |
| Franz Kafka | The Judgement (1913) |
| Franz Kafka | Prometheus (1918) |
| Franz Kafka | In the Penal Colony (1919) |
| Franz Kafka | A Hunger Artist (1922) |
| Franz Kafka | Amerika (1927) |
| James Joyce | Ulysses (1922) |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway (1925) |
| Herman Hesse | Siddhartha (1927) |
| Herman Hesse | The Glass Bead Game (1943) |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World (1932) |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Fictions (1941) |
| Jorge Luis Borges | The Aleph and Other Stories (1945) |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger (1942) |
| Viktor Frankl | Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) |
| George Orwell | 1984 (1949) |
| Ernest Hemingway | Islands in the Stream (1949) |
| Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine (1949) |
| Shirley Jackson | The Lottery and Other Stories (1949) |
To Read: Fiction (1950-1999)
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| T.H. White | The Once and Future King (1958) |
| Daniel Keyes | Flowers for Algernon (1959) |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar (1963) |
| Italo Calvino | The Complete Cosmicomics (1965) |
| Thomas Pynchon | The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) |
| Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) |
| Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude (1959) |
| Gabriel García Márquez | Chronicles of a Death Foretold (1981) |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Hocus Pocus (1990) |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? (2013) |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (2019) |
| Umberto Eco | The Name of the Rose (1980) |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved (1987) |
| David Foster Wallace | The Broom of the System (1987) |
| David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest (1996) |
To Read: Fiction (2000s)
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas (2004) |
To Read: Philosophy
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Plato | The Republic (c. 375 BC) |
| Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations (c. 161 AD) |
| St. Augustine | On Christian Doctrine (397) |
| St. Augustine | Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love (420) |
| St. Augustine | The City of God (426) |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Monadology (1714) |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Either/Or (1843) |
| Søren Kierkegaard | Fear and Trembling (1843) |
| Søren Kierkegaard | The Concept of Anxiety (1843) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Human, All Too Human (1879) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Beyond Good and Evil (1886) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Ecce Homo (1888) |
| Leo Tolstoy | A Confession (1882) |
| Leo Tolstoy | The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) |
| Okakura Kakuzō | The Book of Tea (1906) |
| Bertrand Russel | The Problems of Philosophy (1912) |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) |
| John Paul Sartre | Being and Nothingness (1943) |
| Simone de Beauvoir | The Second Sex (1949) |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Philosophical Investigations (1953) |
| Hannah Arendt | The Human Condition (1958) |
| Guy Debord | The Society of the Spectacle (1967) |
| Jean Baudrillard | Simulacra and Simulation (1983) |
To Read: Spirituality
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Thich Nhat Hahn | The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) |
| Thich Nhat Hahn | The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching (1997) |
To Read: Other
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Lewis Carroll | Symbolic Logic (1896) |
| Ernest Nagel; James R. Newman | Gödel’s Proof (1958) |
| Thomas Kuhn | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) |
| Buckminster Fuller | I Seem To Be a Verb (1970) |
| Marvin Minsky | The Society of Mind (1988) |
| Ray Bradbury | Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) |
| M. Mitchell Waldrop | Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (1992) |
| V. S. Ramachandran | The Tell-Tale Brain (2011) |
| Marvin Minsky | The Emotion Machine (2007) |
| Cecelia Watson | Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark (2019) |
To Read: Essays, Letters, and Talks
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Franz Kafka | A Letter to My Father (1952) |
| Lewis Thomas | The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Wampeteors, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) |
| Thomas Nagel | What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974) |
| Richard Hamming | You and Your Research (1986) |
| Jacqueline Jones Royster | When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own (1996) |
| N. David Mermin | Writing physics (2003) |
| Nancy Sommers; Laura Saltz | The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year (2004) |
| David Foster Wallace | Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) |
| Yiyun Li | To Speak Is to Blunder (2016) |
To Read: Poetry
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Sappho | If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (c. 650 BC) |
| Max Ehrmann | Desiderata (1927) |
To Read: Academic Papers
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Alan Turing | Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) |
| J. R. Lucas | Minds, Machines, and Gödel (1959) |
| Marvin L. Minsky | Minds, Matter, and Models (1965) |
| Ann Brown | Knowing When, Where, and Now to Remember (1977) |
| John H. Flavell | Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive–developmental inquiry. (1979) |
| Lyn Corno | The metacognitive control components of self-regulated learning (1986) |
| Ann Brown | Metacognition, executive control, self-regulation, and other more mysterious mechanisms (1987) |
| Richard E. Mayer | Cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational aspects of problem solving (1998) |
| Christopher Langton | Computation at the Edge of Chaos: Phase-transitions and emergent computation (1990) |
| Philip Winne | A Cognitive and Metacognitive Analysis of Self-Regulated Learning (2011) |
To Watch: Movies
| DIRECTOR | TITLE |
|---|---|
| Charlie Kaufman | Synecdoche, New York (2008) |
| Wes Anderson | Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
Completed
| NAME | CREATOR | DATE STARTED | DATE COMPLETED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (1996) | Thomas R. Martin | ? | ? |
| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1970) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ? | ? |
| Look at the Birdie (2009) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ? | ? |
| Whiplash (2014) | Damien Chazelle | 2023-04-29 | 2023-04-29 |
| Phaedo (c. 300s BC) | Plato | 2023-04-03 | 2023-04-21 |
| Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023) | Amanda Kim | 2023-04-01 | 2023-04-01 |
| A Room of One’s Own (1929) | Virginia Woolf | 2023-03-10 | 2023-03-19 |
| Hercules (1997) | John Musker & Ron Clements | 2023-03-12 | 2023-03-12 |
| In the Mood for Love (2000) | Wong Kar-wai | 2023-03-11 | 2023-03-11 |
| Meno (c. 300s BC) | Plato | 2023-01-25 | 2023-02-04 |
| Crito (c. 300s BC) | Plato | 2023-01-22 | 2023-01-22 |
| The Aleph (1945) | Jorge Luis Borges | 2023-01-30 | 2023-01-30 |
| The Sirens of Titan (1959) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2022-12-26 | 2022-12-29 |
| The Apology (c. 300s BC) | Plato | 2022-11-25 | 2022-11-25 |
| Cosmos (1980) | Carl Sagan | 2022-07-05 | 2022-10-18 |
| The Egg (2009) | Andy Weir | 2022-10-01 | 2022-10-01 |
| Euthyphro (c. 300s BC) | Plato | 2022-09-28 | 2022-09-28 |
| The Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition | Michael Sugrue | 2022-04-01 | 2022-09-01 |
| Breakfast of Champions (1973) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2022-08-01 | 2022-08-22 |
| Perfect Blue (1997) | Satoshi Kon | 2022-08-19 | 2022-08-19 |
| Ivan the Fool (1886) | Leo Tolstoy | 2022-08-15 | 2022-08-15 |
| Cat's Cradle (1963) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2022-07-27 | 2022-07-30 |
| Slaughterhouse Five (1969) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2022-07-20 | 2022-07-27 |
| Investigations of a Dog (1922) | Franz Kafka | 2022-06-12 | 2022-06-19 |
| The Burrow (1928) | Franz Kafka | 2022-06-01 | 2022-06-05 |
| Description of a Struggle (1909) | Franz Kafka | 2022-05-20 | 2022-05-25 |
| Paprika (2006) | Satoshi Kon | 2022-05-15 | 2022-05-15 |
| The Metamorphosis (1915) | Franz Kafka | 2022-05-09 | 2022-05-12 |
| Through the Looking Glass (1871) | Lewis Carroll | 2022-04-18 | 2022-04-25 |
| Alice in Wonderland (1865) | Lewis Carroll | 2022-04-15 | 2022-04-18 |
| Logicomix: An epic search for truth (2008) | Apostolos Doxiadis; Christos Papadimitriou | 2022-03-05 | 2022-04-17 |
| Mere Christianity (1952) | C.S. Lewis | ||
| Scholastic Metaphysics (2014) | Edward Feser | ||
| The Trial (1925) | Franz Kafka | ||
| The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (1954) | Aldous Huxley | ||
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968) | Paulo Freire | ||
| The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) | Albert Camus | ||
| This is Water (2005) | David Foster Wallace | ||
| East of Eden (1952) | John Steinbeck | ||
| The Universe in a Single Atom (2005) | Dalai Lama XIV | ||
| Galápagos (1985) | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | ||
| At Home in the World (2016) | Thich Nhat Hahn | ||
| The Sun My Heart (1982) | Thich Nhat Hahn | ||
| Kokoro (1914) | Natsume Sōseki | ||
| Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (1970) | Shunryū Suzuki | ||
| Phantoms in the Brain (1998) | V.S. Ramachandran |