[What I'm Reading]
"Mostly Classics" Project: Part 2
So I haven't had time to rate all the books like I'd hoped, but I thought I'd at least share the list of books that I have read for this project since it started in 2023. The books are in reverse chronological order that I read them. You'll notice several how-to books on building things that I bought after reading Thoreau's Walden Lol. I haven't built them yet, but they're on my to-do list.
I thought most of these books were amazing, and all of them worth reading. Some standouts for me have been:
- A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander — A worldview-altering take on our relationship with the built environment.
- The Iliad, Homer — An epic story that helped shape my views on masculinity.
- Rhetoric, Aristotle — Reshaped my understanding of human emotion.
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville — The magnitude of the setting, plot, and writing style is awe-inspiring.
Books Read (most recent first)
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Six Easy Pieces | Richard Feynman |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill |
| River of Doubt | Candice Millard |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| The Standard of Taste | David Hume |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| Le Petit Prince (French version) | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| A Timber Framer's Workshop | Steve Chappell |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| A Pattern Language | Christopher Alexander |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| On Propositions | Aristotle |
| Bringing Nature Home | Doug Tallamy |
| The Nature of Oaks | Doug Tallamy |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| Canoecraft | Ted Moores |
| The Complete Deck Book | Sunset Books |
| Building Small Barns, Sheds, and Shelters | Monte Burch |
| Building & Restoring The Hewn Log House | Charles McRaven |
| Pretty Good House | Michael Maines et al |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Categories | Aristotle |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| Symposium | Plato |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Meditations of First Philosophy | René Descartes |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| An Enquiry into Human Understanding | David Hume |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Physics | Aristotle |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Gorgias | Plato |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| De Anima | Aristotle |
| The Confessions | St. Augustine |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Phaedo | Plato |
| Meno | Plato |
| Crito | Plato |
| Apology | Plato |
| Euthyphro | Plato |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| Rhetoric | Aristotle |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Politics | Aristotle |
| Moby-Dick | Herman Melville |
| Republic | Plato |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| A Brief History of Japan | Jonathan Clements |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Ethics | Aristotle |
| Foundations | Isaac Asimov |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond |
| Poetics | Aristotle |
| The Secret History | Donna Tartt |