The (Great) List of Books

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Currently Reading:

Notes to Myself - Hugh Prather

Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy - Ancius Boethius - 10/10

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - 9/10

The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays - Albert Camus - 9/10

The Trouble With Being Born - Emil Cioran - 8.5/10

On the Heights of Despair - Emil Cioran - 8.5/10

What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton - 8/10

On the Suffering of the World - Arthur Schopenhauer - 7/10

The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche - 6.5/10

The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts - 6/10

What I Believe - Bertrand Russell - 5/10

Non-Fiction

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl - 7.5/10

Poetry

Aniara - Harry Martinson - 6/10

Play

No Exit and Three Other Plays - Jean-Paul Sartre - 4/10

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett - 3/10

Fiction

Suicide - Édouard Levé - 10/10

To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf - 9.5/10

Stoner - John Williams - 9/10

Nausea - John-Paul Sartre - 9/10

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - 9/10

Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 8.5/10

Sleep Has His House — Anna Kavan - 8.5/10

Who Are you? - Anna Kavan - 8.5/10

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 8/10

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse - 8/10

Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 7.5/10

The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai - 7.5/10

The Stranger - Albert Camus - 7/10

Nothing - Janne Teller - 7/10

The Double - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 6.5/10

I Am Lazarus - Anna Kavan - 6.5/10

Post Office - Charles Bukowski - 6/10

Factotum - Charles Bukowski - 6/10

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 6/10

Walden - Henry David Thoreau - 5/10

Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges - 5/10

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai - 5/10

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - 4/10

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - 3/10

Apocalypse / Societal Collapse

The Road - Cormac McCarthy - 8/10

High-Rise - J.G. Ballard - 4/10

The Death of Grass - John Christopher - 3.5/10

Science Fiction

Ice - Anna Kavan - 7.5/10

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin - 7.5/10

Roadside Picnic - The Strugatsky Brothers - 7.5/10

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke - 7/10

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel - 7/10

1984 - George Orwell - 6.5/10

Ubik - Philip K. Dick - 6.5/10

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 6/10

The Fifth Science - Exurb1a - 6/10

I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman - 5.5/10

Monument - Lloyd Biggle Jr. - 5/10

The Final Circle of Paradise - The Strugatsky Brothers - 4.5/10

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang - 4/10

The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick - 4/10

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison - 2.5/10

Science-Fantasy

Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 7/10

Fantasy

Follow Me to Ground - Sue Rainsford - 7/10

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson - 6.5/10

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke - 6/10

Comfort Me with Apples - Catherynne Valente - 5.5/10

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - 5/10

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 5/10

Horror

Tender Is the Flesh - Augustina Bazterrica - 6.5/10

The Shadow Over Innsmouth - H.P. Lovecraft - 6.5/10

The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 6/10

The House on the Borderland - William Hodgson - 3.5/10

Mystery

We Have Always Lived in this Castle - Shirley Jackson - 3.5/10