Reading

They say reading books is like taking your brain to the gym. I read so many that now I have a six pack on my forehead. Here’s how it happened:

2024

Philosophy of Mind: Brain, Consciousness and Thinking Machines - Patrick Grim
The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Lilua Batash - Humayun Ahmed
Billy Budd - Herman Melville
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus
A History of the U.S. Economy in the 20th Century - Timothy Taylor
A Confession - Leo Tolstoy
The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Danger Zone: the Coming Conflict with China - Hal Brands and Michael Beckley
Kheya - Rabindranath Tagore
Candide - Voltaire
Will My Cat My Eyeballs - Caitlin Doughty
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Water Margin - Shi Nai’an
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

2023

Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
What Kind of Creatures Are We? - Noam Chomsky
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Political Ideals - Bertrand Russell
My Sweet Orange Tree - José Mauro de Vasconcelos
The Republic - Plato
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Enchiridion - Epictetus
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
This is not my Philosophy Notebook - Arifur Rahman
Beyond Happiness - Ezra Bayda
Buddha - Rabindranath Tagore
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Principles - Ray Dalio
Conscious - Annaka Harris