reading
If I've given a book 5 stars, it really impacted me in some lasting way. I'll do my best to keep up this list and write briefly about my experience with each book. I'm always looking for good recommendations!
current
- Taking the Path of Zen by Robert Aitken
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses by L. Dee Fink
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
finished
Something to Do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace
★★★★½ finished 22 August 2026
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers A Novel by Max Porter
★★★★★ finished 21 July 2026
... adorable and funny, absurd and poetic. It will stick in some of my mind recesses. It was such a profound and mundane portrait of grief in a family.
Stoner by John Williams
★★★★★ finished 12 July 2026
The book helped me understand what it's like to be exhausted by life. But it's not dismal. There are islands of the deepest joy sprinkled throughout his life. I felt it all, looking through his eyes.
Living by Vow by Shohaku Okumura
★★★★★ finished 29 June 2026
The book uses these common chants and sutras as an entry point to explain the entire ethos of Zen practice. It's very friendly and straightforward
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
★★★★ finished 30 April 2026
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
★★★★★ finished 22 August 2025
Grendel by John Gardner
★★ finished 05 August 2025
The Castle by Franz Kafka
★★★★ finished 20 July 2025
For One More Day International Edition by Mitch Albom
★★★★½ finished 07 July 2025
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
★★★★½ finished 06 July 2025
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
★★★★ finished 28 June 2025
I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
★★★★ finished 18 June 2025
Three Zen Sutras by Red Pine
★★★★★ finished 09 June 2025
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
★★★★ finished 08 June 2025
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
★★★½ finished 30 May 2025
Free Will by Sam Harris
★★★½ finished 23 April 2025
Lying by Sam Harris, Annaka Harris
★★★★ finished 20 April 2025
John Dies at the End by Jason Pargin, David Wong
★★★ finished 18 April 2025
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
★★★½ finished 10 April 2025
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
★★★★★ finished 27 March 2025
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition) by John Green
★★★★ finished 22 March 2025
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
★★★½ finished 19 March 2025
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
★★★★ finished 07 March 2025
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
★★★★ finished 20 February 2025
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
★★★ finished 12 February 2025
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
★★★★½ finished 04 February 2025
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Donald G. Rutledge
★★★★★ finished 03 February 2025
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
★★★★ finished 17 January 2025
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
★★★½ finished 04 January 2025
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
★★★★ finished 31 December 2024
Nine Stories by J. D. Salinger
★★★★ finished 24 December 2024
[[Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction]] by J. D. Salinger
★★★★★ finished 13 December 2024
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
★★★★ finished 03 December 2024
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
★★★★ finished 25 November 2024
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
★★★★ finished 24 October 2024
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
★★★★½ finished 14 October 2024
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
★★★½ finished 09 September 2024
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
★★★★½ finished 21 August 2024
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
★★★★ finished 18 August 2024
[[Sisters: A Graphic Novel]] by Raina Telgemeier
★★★ finished 08 August 2024
Toki Pona by Sonja Lang
★★★★ finished 08 August 2024
Tenth of December by George Saunders
★★★★ finished 07 August 2024
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
★★★★★ finished 04 August 2024
The Book by Alan Watts
★★★★ finished 30 July 2024
The Stranger by Albert Camus
★★★★ finished 22 July 2024
You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
★★★★ finished 16 July 2024
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre
★★★½ finished 13 July 2024
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
★★★★★ finished 11 July 2024
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
★★★★ finished 08 July 2024
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
★★★★★ finished 08 July 2024
Lila by Robert Pirsig
★★★★★ finished 08 July 2024
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
★★★★★ finished 08 July 2024
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★ finished 23 April 2024
Body & Soul by Loïc J. D. Wacquant
★★★★ finished 09 April 2024
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki
★★★★½ finished 09 April 2024
Design Flaws of the Human Condition by Paul Schmidtberger
★★★★ finished 24 January 2024
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
★★★★ finished 16 January 2024
[[Crime and Punishment: A New Translation]] by Fyodor Dostoevsky
★★★★★ finished 07 January 2024
The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss
★★★★ finished 07 December 2023