📚 Reading List
A comprehensive collection of books, organized by category, with tracking for status and priority. These are the books people recommended to me that felt impactful.
🧘♀️ Philosophy & Spirituality
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discours de la méthode | Descartes | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Tao Te Ching | Laozi | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Nichomachean Ethics | Aristotle | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| On the Genealogy of Morals | Nietzsche | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Esquisses Pyrrhoniennes | Sextus Empiricus | Low | 📚 To Read | |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | Freud | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Republic | Plato | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing | Kierkegaard | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Nietzsche | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nietzsche | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Rhetoric | Aristotle | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Denial of Death | Ernest Becker | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Well-Lived Life | Gladys McGarey | Listed in 2 categories | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | Shunryu Suzuki | High | 📚 To Read | |
| Original Wisdom | Robert Wolff | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| On Not Having a Head | D.E. Harding | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Soul: An Owner’s Manual | D. Jaffe | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Play of Consciousness | Swami Muktananda | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Secret Doctrine | Helena Blavatsky | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Kybalion | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| The Secret Teachings of All Ages | Manly P. Hall | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Lankavatara Scripture | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| The Future of the Body | Michael Murphy | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Lives of the Stoics | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Soul | From recos | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🧠 Psychology & Self-Improvement
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey | High | 📚 To Read | |
| 12 Rules for Life | Jordan Peterson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work | John Gottman | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Rework | Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Alter Ego | Brian Tracy / Others | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Active Hope | Joanna Macy | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Evolutionary Psychology | David Buss | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Surrounded by Idiots | Thomas Erikson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Surrounded by Psychopaths | Thomas Erikson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Molecule of More | Lieberman & Long | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel | High | 📚 To Read | |
| The Art of Always Being Right | Schopenhauer | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Image | Daniel Boorstin | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Behave | Robert Sapolsky | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Gilbert | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| My Brain Still Needs Glasses | Annick Vincent | ADHD in Adults | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| Can’t Hurt Me | David Goggins | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Borrowing Brilliance | David Kord Murray | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| 5 Types of Wealth | Unknown | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Talk Like TED | Carmine Gallo | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🧬 Science & Technology
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 64 Jinkies | I Ching + DNA | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Understanding Media | Marshall McLuhan | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Internet’s Own Boy | Aaron Swartz | Book & Doc | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| The Lessons of History | Durant | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Secret Dowry of Eve | Barbara Walker | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Softwar | Thierry Breton, Denis Beneich | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch | Lewis Dartnell | From recos | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🏛️ History, Politics & Society
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Propaganda | Edward Bernays | High | 📚 To Read | |
| Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking | Christopher Hadnagy | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Antifragile | Nassim Taleb | High | 📚 To Read | |
| Against White Feminism | Rafia Zakaria | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Good Ancestor | Roman Krznaric | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Democracy for Realists | Achen & Bartels | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Revolt of the Public | Martin Gurri | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Frames of Mind | Howard Gardner | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| La guerre des mondes | H.G. Wells | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Le visage de Dieu | Jean d’Ormesson | Medium | 📚 To Read |
📖 Fiction
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | Medium | ✅ Completed | |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt | Medium | ✅ Completed | |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Poppy War | R.F. Kuang | Medium | ✅ Completed | |
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Babel | R.F. Kuang | Medium | ✅ Completed | |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Overstory | Richard Powers | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez | High | 📚 To Read | |
| A Stranger to Myself | Willy Peter Reese | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| We Dreamed Only of Liberties | Unknown | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Red Rising | Pierce Brown | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Eragon | Christopher Paolini | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Autant en emporte le vent | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| La Peste | Albert Camus | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Circle | Dave Eggers | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | High | 📚 To Read | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms | Luo Guanzhong | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Princess Bride | William Goldman | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Leopard | Giuseppe Tomasi | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Passage | Lois Lowry | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Garden of Time | Various | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse | From recos | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| Ex Machina | From recos | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | hpmor.com | Medium | 📚 To Read |
📓 Memoir & Biography
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | High | 📚 To Read | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Body | Bill Bryson | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Wild Wild Country | Documentary + context | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| My Secret Garden | Nancy Friday | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Julian Barnes | Julian Barnes | Multiple works | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| Samuel Beckett | Samuel Beckett | Multiple works | Medium | 📚 To Read |
| Indian Boyhood | Charles Eastman | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Avignon | From recos | Medium | 📚 To Read |
💬 Relationships & Communication
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rational Male | Rollo Tomassi | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| You Just Don’t Understand | Deborah Tannen | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| What You Are Looking For Is in the Library | Michiko Aoyama | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The Four Noble Truths of Love | Susan Piver | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Silence: The Power of Quiet | Thich Nhat Hanh | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Mindfulness: 25 Ways… | Christophe André | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| Ces hommes et femmes qui aiment trop | Robin Norwood | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🧘 Zen, Taoism & Buddhism
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | Shunryu Suzuki | High | 📚 To Read | |
| Karma: A Yogi’s Guide | Sadhguru | Medium | 📚 To Read | |
| The I Ching | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Nalanda Mahavihara | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Lankavatara Scripture | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Original Wisdom | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Sois toi et change le monde | Dain Heer | New Age / Self-help | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🖼️ Graphic Novels / Comics
| Title | Author | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pucelle | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Les Sentiments du Prince Charles | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Testosterone | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| The Ecology of the Map | Medium | 📚 To Read | ||
| Ni Dieu Ni Maître | History of Anarchism | Medium | 📚 To Read |
🎬 Documentaries
| Title | Director/Creator | Topic | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowspiracy | Environment | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| The Internet’s Own Boy | Aaron Swartz | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Le Monde Selon Monsanto | Marie Monique Robin | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Notre Poison Quotidien | Marie Monique Robin | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Viens Voir les Docteurs | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Civilization à en Mourir | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Game Changers | Nutrition | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Animals | Nature | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Planet Ocean | Marine | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Terra | Nature | Medium | 📚 To Watch |
📺 TV Series
| Series | Episode/Season | Comments | Priority | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Mirror | White Christmas | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Black Mirror | Beyond the Sea | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Black Mirror | Black Museum | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Black Mirror | USS Callister | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Black Mirror | Hang the DJ | Medium | 📚 To Watch | |
| Mindhunter | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Maniac | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Dark | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| The Bear | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| The Boys | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Mad Men | Medium | 📚 To Watch | ||
| Sense8 | Medium | 📚 To Watch |
📦 Uncategorized Backlog
- Jarhead
- Catastroika
- Debtocracy
- La fabrique des savoirs
- René Daumal - pensée et monde concret, le mont analogue
- The designer skill and talent
- Journeys out of the body
- Waarom de geele jacket rood niet met backfits
- Van gogh le mal de vivre
- Les metamorphoses de la terre
- Le livre rouge (Jung)
- L’amour et la reconciliation
- Le sexe et l’evolution
- La voix des roix
- Konrad Krzyzanowski
- Assimile chinois
- And the skylark sings with me
- Segal vastness - collision with the infinite
- Imposteurs du bio
- What a time to be alone, cleopatra and frankenstein, this is how you heal
- The mind of the nemonefist
- Metamorphose, migration
- I am not an easy man
- Le medecin des pauvres
- Émilie Muller
- L’armée post romantique
- 184 days
- Dans la peau d une femme
- David Vanreirook revolutie Indonésie
- Le coeur converti
- Amitav gosh guerre de l opium sud est asiatique
- Herman Hesse (General)
- Il était une fois le gene
- Je suis pilgrim
- Le ministre des moussons
- Francois Julien chinois
- Arnaud Desjardin a la recherche du soi
- Enemy within
- Patrick Dacquay chamanisme
- Epictète
- Jouissance club
- Unaccustomed earth
- Councils and maxism
- The weiger
- La chair est triste hélas
- Oh captain my captain
- Pw martin experiment in depth
- Oshio / Genzo
- Giono
- Soulshard
- La nuit se traine
- Les 100 meilleures citations francaises
- Cape town doctor
- Poisson sans bicyclette
- Sioyek
- Owen cook (RSD) / Nouba
- Outlive
- Philadelphia / House of Cards
- Science of deduction (holmes)
- Le loup des steppes / Les clocharts celestes
- Alain Deamasio
- Mon voisin totoro
- Writing to learn
- Coline Ceroo solution globale
- Slumdog millionaire
- Pablo Servignio / George Simenon / Rob Hobkins
- Jean Ziggler
- Vattenfall / Disney Project T
- Musée mariemont / Community
- Né un 4 juillet / Forest Gump
- Ça c est passé près de chez vous
- Uncharted film / Phénomène / Soleil vert
- Films de Miazaki
- Brothers sisters / Dont look up
- Making it so
- Journal intime d un arbre
- Throne of class
📊 Reading Statistics
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Reading Progress
Total Books: 100+
Completed: 4
In Progress: 0
To Read: 96+
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Category Breakdown
Philosophy & Spirituality: 24
Psychology & Self-Improvement: 17
Fiction: 25
Science & Technology: 7
History & Society: 11
Other Categories: 16+
[!note] 📌Reading Status Legend
✅ Completed - You’ve finished reading this book
📖 In Progress - Currently reading
📚 To Read - On your reading list
❤️ Favorite - Particularly enjoyed or found valuable
🔄 Re-reading - Reading for a second (or more) time
How to Use This Reading Tracker
This reading list is organized by category with standardized information for each book:
- Title & Author - Basic book information
- Comments - Notes, references, or additional context
- Priority - How important this book is to read (High/Medium/Low)
- Status - Current reading status with emoji indicators
To update a book’s status or information, simply edit the relevant cell in the table.