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Books

Series to Finish

• The Man Without Qualities
• Dune
• Earthsea
• Hainish Novels and Stories
• Neapolitan Novels

Research / Edification

• Old Testament
• New Testament
• Nag Hammadi
• Book of Enoch
• Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Faery Queen
• The Mabinogion
• Divine Comedy
• Eddas
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• The Kalevala

Shakespear Tetralogy

• Richard II
• Henry IV part i
• Henry IV part ii
• Henry V
• The Merry Wives of Windsor

To Read Next

• The Silmarillion
• The Lord of The Rings
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Three Musketeers
• The Incal
• After The Incal
• 3rd Man Without Qualities
• East of Eden

Reading

• Perspective Made Easy - Ernest R. Norling
• Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Autonomous Material - Reza Negarestani

Read 2023

May

1. Dreams of Steel - Glenn Cook
2. The Silver Spike - Glenn Cook
3. SeinLanguage - Jerry Seinfeld
4. Dracula - Bram Stoker
5. Emphyrio - Jack Vance
6. The Assassin’s Blade - Sarah J. Maas
7. Throne of Glass - Sarah J. Maas

April

1. The Black Company - Glenn Cook
2. Shadows Lengthen - Glenn Cook
3. The White Rose - Glenn Cook
4. Shadow Games - Glenn Cook

March

1. Mr. Pye - Mervyn Peake
2. The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

February

1. Shifting - Miracle Jones (reread)
2. Burning - Miracle Jones
3. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski

January

1. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
2. Sharing - Miracle Jones (reread)

Read 2022

December

1. The Knight - Gene Wolfe
2. The Wizard - Gene Wolfe
3. Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories - qntm
4. Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming - Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
5. Monsieur Lambert - Jean-Jacques Sempé
6. Windhaven - George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle
7. The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke

November

1. The Dark Eidolon and other Fantasies - Clark Ashton Smith
2. The Secret of Secrets - Aristotle
3. Into the Odd (Remastered) - Chris McDowall, art by Johann Nohr
4. Brahms and His Music - TIME LIFE Recordings
5. UNIVERSE - Robert Heinlein
6. Creative Authenticity - Ian Roberts
7. Before The Incal - Alexandro Jodorowsky, art by Zoran Janjetov

October

1. Borne - Jeff Vandermeer
2. Tarendra - Michael Andre-Driussi

September

1. Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh
2. Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
3. Mythic Game Master Emulator - Tana Pigeon
4. UNE: the universal NPC emulator - Zach Best
5. Liminal Horror - Goblin Archives (Nick Erickson)
6. For Love of the Dark One: Songs of Mirabai - Mirabai, translated by Andrew Schelling
7. Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh
8. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr - Ram V and Filipe Andrade

August

1. Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope With Uncertainty - Gerd Gigerenzer
2. Cairn - Yochai Gal
3. Four Against Darkness - Andrea Sfiligoi

July

1. The Secret History of the War on Cancer - Devra Davis

June

1. Truth of the Divine - Lindsay Ellis
2. Fourth Mansions - R. A. Lafferty
3. The Little Book of Lost Words - Joe Gillard
4. Mayhem - Estelle Laure

May

1. Ice - Anna Kavan
2. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

April

1. The Erstwhile - B. Catling
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
3. Les Yeus Du Chat - Moebius & Jodorowsky
4. The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe - D. G. Compton
5. Cabeza de Vaca - Peter Rabbit

March

1. The Vorrh - B. Catling
2. Axiom’s End - Lindsay Ellis
3. Pan - Knut Hamsun
4. Martian Time-Slip - Phillip K. Dick

February

1. The Thousandfold Thought - R. Scott Bakker
2. The Searcher - Tana French

January

1. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
2. The Wych Elm - Tana French
3. The Darkness That Comes Before - R. Scott Bakker
4. The Warrior Prophet - R. Scott Bakker

Read 2021

December

1. King Henry IV, Part Two - William Shakespeare
2. Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert
3. The Trespasser - Tana French
4. Chapterhouse Dune - Frank Herbert

November

1. Winter’s Tales - Isak Dinesen
2. The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
3. King Henry IV, Part One - William Shakespeare
4. The Secret Place - Tana French

October

1. King Richard II - William Shakespeare
2. The War On Normal People - Andrew Yang
3. Ra - qntm

September

1. God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
2. Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease - Robert Lustig
3. Broken Harbor - Tana French
4. King John - William Shakespeare

August

1. The Nine Unknown - Talbot Mundy
2. The Woods - Tana French
3. The Likeness - Tana French
4. Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography - Limmy
5. Faithful Place - Tana French

July

1. The Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog - Doris Lessing
2. Children of Dune - Frank Herbert
3. Fine Structure - qntm
4. Lena - qntm

June

1. Of all the stars, the evening star - Jim Levy
2. The Master and Margerita - Bugalkov
3. There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm
4. The Jungle - Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul
5. Ed - qntm
6. Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
7. Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
8. Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer

May

1. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
2. Saint Francis of Assisi - G. K. Chesterton
3. Arid Dreams - Duanwad Pimwana, translated by Mui Poopoksakul

April

1. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
2. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
3. Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys

March

1. Dune - Frank Herbert (reread)
2. Who? - Algis Budrys
3. The Incal - Jodorowsky and Moebius
4. Michaelmas - Algis Budrys

February

1. The Oxygen Advantage - Patrick McKeown
2. Ah, Mouthless Things - Lee Seong-Bok
3. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
4. The Lover - Marguerite Duras

January

1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. The New Well Tempered Sentence - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
3. Seven Nights - Jorge Luis Borges
4. On Directing Film - David Mamet

Read 2020

Total: 32

December

1. Blood and Burning - Algis Budrys
2. The Empire of Gold S. A. Chakraborty
3. Falling Torch - Algis Budrys

November

1. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
2. The City of Brass - S. A. Chakraborty
3. The Kingdom of Copper - S. A. Chakraborty
4. The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox - Dr. Mark Burhenne

October

1. The Kalevala - Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley

September 2020

1. Paganism Explained - Part I: Þrymskviða - Varg Vikernes & Marie Cachet

August 2020

1. Mara and Dann - Doris Lessing
2. That’s Your Lot - Limmy
3. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
4. The Accursed Share: Volume 1 - Georges Bataille

July 2020

Total: 5

1. The Cleft - Doris Lessing
2. The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
3. The Castle of the Otter and Castle of Days - Gene Wolfe
4. Women Without Men - Shahrnush Parsipur
5. Daft Wee Stories - Limmy

June 2020

Total: 4

1. Everything I Want to Do is Illegal - Joel Salatin
2. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell - Doris Lessing
4. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 2020

Total: 4

1. Till We Have Faces - C. S. Lewis
2. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
3. Return to the Whorl - Gene Wolfe
4. Comus: A Masque (reread) - John Milton

April 2020

Total: 5

1. The Sacred and the Profane - Eliade Mircea
2. The Colossus and Other Poems - Silvia Plath
3. On Blue’s Waters - Gene Wolfe
4. Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert
5. In Green’s Jungles - Gene Wolfe

March 2020

Total: 4

1. How to Defend Society Against Science - Paul Feyerabend
2. American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
3. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate - Christopher Beha
4. The King of Elfland’s Daughter - Lord Dunsany
5. Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Olena Bormashenko

February 2020

Total: 4

1. #ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics - Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek
2. Post Modernism and Consumer Society - Frederic Jameson
3. Mindless Statistics - Gerd Gigerenzer
4. On the Vanity of Existence - Arthur Schopenhauer
5. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
6. Season of Storms - Andrzej Sapkowski
7. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James

January 2020

Total: 4

1. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin, translated by Michael Hofmann
2. The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - Ronald L. Wasserstein & Nicole A. Lazar
4. A Short Note on P-Value Hacking - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
5. Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, and ensuing debate:
   • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - John P. A. Ioannidis
   • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: Problems in the Analysis - Steven Goodman and Sander Greenland
   • Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: Author’s Reply to Goodman and Greenland - John P. A Ioannidis
6. What Is Hauntology? - Mark Fisher
7. Xenofeminism - A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks

Read 2019

Total: 52

December 2019

Total: 8

1. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
2. The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit - Jonathan Swift
3. Other Writings (comprising An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, The Bickerstaff Papers, The Examiner - No. 14, The Drapier’s First Letter, A Modest Proposal, and Swift’s Correspondence) - Jonathan Swift
4. Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor W. Adorno
5. Swift’s Poems - Jonathan Swift
6. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
7. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
8. The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
9. FLCL Vol. 1 - Hajime Ueda & Gainax
10. The Lady of the Lake - Andrzej Sapkowski

November 2019

Total: 1

1. Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

October 2019

Total: 5

1. Soil (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
2. Cream (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
3. Stocklets (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
4. Tomorrowland (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones
5. Christmas (Story Collection) - Miracle Jones

September 2019

Total: 4

1. Time of Contempt - Andrzej Sapkowski
2. Baptism of Fire - Andrzej Sapkowski
3. The Siege and Fall of Troy - Robert Graves
4. The Tower of the Swallow - Andrzej Sapkowski

August 2019

Total: 5

1. The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
2. The Sword of Destiny - Andrzej Sapkowski
3. The Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski
4. The Indian Never Had a Horse & other poems - Etal Adnan
5. L’Heptaméron - Marguerite d’Angoulême/Navarre

July 2019

Total: 3

1. Caldé of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
2. Exodus from the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
3. The Spring Flowers Own & The Manifestations of the Voyage - Etal Adnan

June 2019

Total: 5

1. Master and Commander - Patrick O’Brian
2. Resurrection Seven - Stephen Marlowe
3. Pussy and Her Language - Marvin R. Clark and Alphonse Leon Grimaldi
4. Industrial Society and Its Future - FC
5. The Man Without Qualities, vol. 2 - Robert Musil

May 2019

Total: 6

1. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
2. Nightside of the Long Sun - Gene Wolf
3. Lake of the Long Sun - Gene Wolf
4. The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
5. The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
6. The Black Tulip - Iraj Bashiri

April 2019

Total: 4

1. The Works of Arthur Machen

March 2019

Total: 3

1. Jack of Shadows (reread) - Roger Zelazny
2. The Changeling Sea - Patricia A. Mckillip
3. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

February 2019

Total: 4

1. Winter Rose - Patricia A. Mckillip
2. Solstice Wood - Patricia A. Mckillip
3. t zero - Italo Calvino
4. The Blue Fox - Sjón

January 2019

Total: 4

1. Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
2. The Lifeboat - Charlotte Rogan
3. O’henry best stories 2016
4. Invasion of the body snatchers - Jack Finney

Read 2018

• Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
• The Women at the Pump - Knut Hamsun
• Peace - Gene Wolfe
• The Woman in the Dunes - Komo Abe
• House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
• Sysyphean - Dempow Torishima
• The World of Edena - Mœbius
• Cygnet - Patricia A. Mckillip
• Tales of the Dying Earth - Jack Vance
• Today We Choose Faces - Roger Zelazny
• Delta of Venus - Anaïs Nin
• Buffalo Gals - UK Le Guin
• Zuñi Coyote Tales - Cushing
• The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You - Dorothy Briant
• The Stench of Honolulu - Jack Hardey
• The Plague - Albert Camus
• The Man Without Qualities, vol. 1 - Robert Musil
• Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlin
• Aziz Ansari - Modern Romance

Some Read 2015/2016/2017

• The Glory of the Empire - Jean d’Ormesson
• The Dwarf - Pär Lagerkvist
• The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
• The Grandmothers - Doris Lessing
• The Fifth Child - Doris Lessing
• A Small Personal Voice - Doris Lessing
• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
• The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis
• Augie and the Green Knight - Zach Weinersmith
• The Stand - Stephen King
• The Dark Tower 1-4 - Stephen King
• John Carter of Mars 1-10 - Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan
• Sombrero Fallout - Richard Brautigan
• Getting Even - Woody Allen
• Dirty Eddie - Ludwig Bemelmans
• Wuthering Heights
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
• Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
• The Golovlovs - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
• The Pleasures of Walking - Edited by Edwin Valentine Mitchell
• Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
• Surplussed Barrelware - Vassily Aksyonov
• Great Soviet Short Stories - Edited by F. D. Reeve
• The Best Of Phillip José Farmer - Phillip José Farmer
• Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño

To Read

Books

1. White Nights
2. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
3. Hidden Faces
4. The Man Without Qualities, vol. 3
5. The Count of Monty Cristo
6. Brothers Karamazov
7. The Silmarillion
8. The Lord of the Rings
9. The Mabinogi(on)
10. Heimskringla
11. The Prose and Poetic Eddas
12. The Old Testament - Robert Alter
13. The New Testament
14. The New Testament: A Translation - David Bentley Hart
15. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth - David Bentley Hart
16. That All May Be Saved - David Bentley Hart
17. The Story of Christianity - David Bentley Hart
18. A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays - David Bentley Hart
19. Il Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
20. Canopus in Argos: Archives, Vol 1 - 5
21. Only Revolutions
22. The Fairie Queen: Book I ++
23. The White Goddess
24. Structuralism and Semiotics
25. A River Sutra
26. Swann’s Way
27. Empires of Foliage and Flower - Gene Wolfe
28. Lexicon Urthus
29. Cosmere - Sanderson
30. Mistborne books
31. Against Method (Epistemological Anarchism) - Paul Feyerabend
32. With Fire and Sword - Henryk Sienkiewicz
33. De Vermis Mysteriis
34. The Compound Effect
35. Glowbug - Feistamel
36. Eden, Eden, Eden - Pierre Guyotat
37. Naomi - Junichiro Tanizaki
38. Les Deux Étendards - Lucien Rebatet
39. Les Décombres - Lucien Rebatet
40. Pelmen the Powershaper Trilogy - Robert Don Hughes
41. Next of Kin - Eric Frank Russell
42. Empire of the Summer Moon
43. Book about korean war - hampton sides
44. One-Straw Revolution
45. Everything is Illuminated
46. feeld - Jos Charles
47. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
48. Wieland - Charles Brokden Brown
49. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
50. The Pillowbook - Japanese lady….
51. Into the Darkness They Eat
52. The Man in the Maze - Robert Silverberg
53. The Secret War - David W. Amendola
54. Petersburg - Andrei Bely
55. Dictionnaire Infernal - Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
56. The Complete Liber Primus (Crypto puzzle) - Antonio Kowatsch and Cicada 3301
57. The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek
58. How Much Land Does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
59. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Machado de Assis
60. The Custom of the Country - Edith Warton
61. The King David Report - Stefan Heym
62. Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
63. Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 - Jozef Czapski
64. Hunger (Sult) - Knut Hamsun
65. All for Nothing - Walter Kempowski
66. Votan - John James
67. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross - John Marco Allegro
68. Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Autonomous Material - Reza Negarestani
69. Intelligence and Spirit - Reza Negarestani
70. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007 - Nick Land
71. Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl: The True Story of “Renee” - Marguerite Sechehaye
72. The Night Country - Loren Eiseley
73. Maids of Death - Phillup K. Dick
74. The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
75. A Banquet of Consequences - Satyajit Das
76. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations - Christopher Lasch
77. The Agony of the American Left - Christopher Lasch.
78. Capitalist Realism: Is There no Alternative? - Mark Fisher
79. The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
80. Home - Bill Bryson
81. ** - Brian Schon
82. The Red Tent
83. The Way of Man - Martin Buber
84. Industrial-Strength Denial - Barbara Freese
85. A Dream of Red Mansions
86. Mindkiller - Spider Robinson
87. Shadow Government - Tom Engelhardt (tomdispatch.com)
88. Snowden’s book
89. Axiom’s End
90. The Deluxe Transitive Vampire - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
91. Intimate Apparel - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
92. No Day Without a Line - Yury Olesha
93. 4-book Emigrant series by Swedish Journalist, Vilhelm Moberg
94. Tales Of Terror - Ida Chittum
95. Children of the Night - Dan Simmons
96. Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de l’invention de maitre François Rabelais
97. Recueil de la diversité des habits (A Collection of the Various Styles of Clothing) - François Desprez (1562)
98. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps - Kai Ashante Wilson
99. A Borrowed Man - Gene Wolfe
100. Interlibrary Loan - Gene Wolfe
101. The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez
102. The Art of Prophecy - Wesley Chu
103. Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber
104. Wolf of the Steppes: The Complete Cossack Adventures, Volume One - Harold Lamb
105. Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles - Alexander Bogomolny
106. The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
107. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) - Christopher Alexander (Author), Sara Ishikawa (Author), Murray Silverstein
108. On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers
109. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
110. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed - Carl Honoré
111. Amalia - Jason Byron (Kayo Dot lyricist, vocalist)
112. Blasphemy, Volumes I & II - Jason Byron
113. Monument - Ian Graham

Online

• https://www.academia.edu/37221402/THE_STATISTICAL_CONSEQUENCES_OF_FAT_TAILS_TECHNICAL_INCERTO_COLLECTION_
• https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

Music

• https://jazzimproviser.com/2022/06/20/robert-fripp-whole-tone-scale-guitar-line-and-analysis/

Poetry

1. Finish: The Idyls of the King (Tennyson)
2. The Kanteletar
3. The Song of Hiawatha - Longfellow
4. Klopstock’s Messiah
5. Ossian / James Macpherson
6. L’Aveugle - Chénier
7. La Legende des Siècles - Victor Hugo
8. Canto General - Pablo Nerudo
9. Hermann und Dorothea - Goethe
10. Zalán Fútasa - Vörösmarty
11. Pan Tadeusz - Mickiewicz
12. Mirèio - Mistral
13. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry - Bishop Percy
14. Epic and Romance - W. P. Ker
15. The Ray of the Microcosm - Njegoš
16. Mysteries of Paris - Eugene Sue
17. Andrea Gibson (also songs)

Unreleased

• Burning - Miracle Jones - http://www.miraclejones.com/#books
• Collected Poems of James Withers (or something of the sort) - James Withers - https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ForgottenPoet

Misc

• Craig Childs - Naturalist
• Journey of Sir Rodrick Random to London

Philisophy/History

• Delueze
• Spengler
• Louis Ferinand Celine
• Houllebecq
• The Mistery of Conciousness - John R. Searle

Statistics:

• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False - John P. A. Ioannidis
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: Problems in the Analysis - Steven Goodman and Sander Greenland
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: Author’s Reply to Goodman and Greenland - John P. A Ioannidis
• Mindless Statistics - Gerd Gigerenzer
• The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - Ronald L. Wasserstein & Nicole A. Lazar
• A Short Note on P-Value Hacking

Health, Diet

• The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains - Robert Lustig
• Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease - Robert Lustig
• The Fat Chance Cookbook - Robert Lustig, Cindy Gershen, Heather Mill
• Pure, White and Deadly - John Yudkin
• Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog: Get Strong. Get Lean. No Bullshit - Grant Peterson

Dictionaries and Lexicons

• Epic English Words: Dictionary of Beauty, Interest, and Wonder - Rovin Devoe
• A New Look at Old Words: Street Slang from the 1600s-1800s: A Writer’s Categorized Guide - Catherine Thrush
• The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting - Joe Gillard
• The Great Book of American Idioms: A Dictionary of American Idioms, Sayings, Expressions & Phrases - Lingo Mastery
• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - John Koenig

Languages

• Ranieri Reverse Recall: A Method of Memorization Applied to Life - Luke Amadeus Ranieri
• The Loom of Language - Frederic Bodmer

Latin

• Latin by The Dowlin Method - Dowling
• Vox Latina: The Pronunciation of Classical Latin - W. Sidney Allen
• Neolatin Lexicon
• De Missione Legatorvm Iaponen Fium Ad Romanam Curiam …. Dialogus - Duarte de Sande

Anglo Saxon / Old English

• https://bosworthtoller.com
• Introduction to Old English (3rd Edition) - Peter S. Baker
• Complete Old English - Mark Atherton
• Audio for Complete Old English
• https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/engol/00
• https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/engol/10
• Bagby’s recording of Beowulf (and of old norse sagas)
• Use side-by-side versions of these texts:
  • Apollonius of Tyre
  • Ælfric’s lives of the saints
  • Ælfric’s colloquy
  • THE HOMILIES OF THE ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH.
  • Aelfric’s Homilies on Judith, Esther, and the Maccabees
  • Ælfric on the Book of Job
  • The Bible

Sanskrit

• Devavanipravesika - Sutherland, Goldman

Chinese

• John Defrancis Series (Yale Series) - Green books for spoken Chinese and Red books for characters

Music

Xenharmonic Theory

• The Divisions of the Tetrachord - John Chalmers
• Musical Mathematics: On the Art and Science of Acoustic Instruments - Chris Forster
• Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Design - Bart Hopkin
• Musical Mathematics - Chris Forester
• Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson - Terumi Narushima
• The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician - Kyle Gann
• The Just Intonation Primer - David B. Doty
• Harmonics and Spirals, The Code of Music - Neil Haverstick
• Hopelessly Microtonal - Neil Haverstick
• The Form of No Forms - Neil Haverstick
• The Sagittal Songbook - Jacob A. Barton

Art

• Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting - Ian Roberts
• Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision - Ian Roberts
• Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction) - Ernest R. Norling
• Perspective for Artists by Rex Cole
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnsWt3HgZS8

Manga / Graphic Novels

• Chainsaw Man
• Berserk

Recs

Tegan

• Age of Innocence
• Margaret Atwood
• Thomas Hardy

Kyla

• The Hungry Tides
• Apeirogon - Column McCann
• The Rings of Saturn - W. G. Sebald

Annette, Clint, Tom, Alec

• Louis Mcmaster Bujolt - Vorcazian Series
• Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
• Gods of Jade and Shadow
• The Wanderers - Chuck Wendig
• Children of Time <—

Quinn

• Hell of a Woman - Jim Thomson
• Todda Frampton

Maggie

• Illia cominsky
• The Door - magda zazbo
• The Lover - Marguerite Deras
• An Insignificant Family
• The Geometry of God
• Say Nothing
• The Song of Achilles - Madelaien Miller
• Circe - Madelaien Miller
• Translations of Sappho - Anne Carson
• Glass Essay - Anne Carson
• Autobiography - Anne Carson
• Ben Lerner
• The Mists of Avalon - Marrion zimmer Bradley
• Paisley Rectal
• Louis Glick
• A Month In Sienna - Hisham Matar
• lailly longsoldier
• The Disquiete of Evening
• Memoirs of a Beatnik - Diana D’Prima
• Loba - Diana D’Prima
• Carma Maria Machado

Robbie

John

• Snow - Orhan Pamuk
• Cheslaw Miloch
• Water I Slip Into At Night - Margeratte Randall
• Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing - Charles Bowden
• Pedro Páramo

David

• The Vanishing Half
• Blood and Thunder
• The World Beneath Our Feet
• Where Eagles Dare - Allister McLain
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Johnny

• Red Rising series
• The Nightengales

Ben

• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• The Three Body Problem
• Who Fears Death
• Binti
• Locked Tomb series - Tamsyn Muir (Harrow the Ninth, etc.)
• Drowning Empire series - Andrea Stewart
• Up Against It - Laura J. Mixon

Oban

• The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - Douglas Preston
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies - Tim Urban

Geordie

• Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
• The Light Between Oceans - M. L. Stedman

IRC, YT, Podcasts, SE

• The Ascent of Money
• Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky
• The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter - Patrick McKeown
• https://www.wimhofmethod.com
• Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith
• The Warriors of Dawn - M. A. Foster
• The Gameplayers of Zan - M. A. Foster
• The Day of the Klesh - M. A. Foster

Instar Books

• The Thingbody - Clare Louise Hamon
• Masterworks and other stories - Simon Jacobs
• hotwriting: playable digital poems - Todd Anderson
• everyword - Allison Parrish

Cuck Philosophy

• Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Frederick Jameson
• The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
• Essence and Model - Peter Halley
• Capitalist Realism: Is there No Alternative? - Mark Fisher
• The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Žižek

Gene Wolfe

• Thy Servant a Dog - Rudyard Kipling
• The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
• Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
• Dream Tigers - Jorge Luis Borges
• The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
• The New York Times Everyday Reader’s Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words
• The American Heritage Dictionary
• Les Farfadets
• Swords and Daggers - Wilkinson
• How to Write for Money - Jack Woodford
• Creating Short Fiction - Damon Knight
• “Lamarckism, as it was put forward by Lamarck”
• Jules Verne
• G. K. Chesterton
• The Napolean of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
• The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton
• The Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
• Osip Mandelstam
• Gertrude von Le Fort
• Isaac Watts
• Algis Budrys
• Who? - Algis Budrys
• Rogue Moon - Algis Budrys
• Michaelmas - Algis Budrys
• Silent Brother (story) - Algis Budrys
• The Tin Woodman - L. Frank Baum
• Trinity and Other Stories - Nancy Kress
• Episodes of the Argo - Raphael Aloysius Lafferty
• Isak / Karen Dinesen
• Roger Martin du Gard
• Lost Temple of the Monkey God

Luke Smith

• Rationality for Mortals - Gerd Giggerenzer
• Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Joseph Schumpeter
• The Myth of the Rational Voter - Bryan Caplan
• The Wisdom of the Crowds
• Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fischer
• The Machiavellians: The Defenders of Freedom - James Burnham
• De Monarchia - Dante
• Race and the Third Reich - Christopher Hutton
• Democracy: The God that Fails - Hans Herman Hoppe
• Michael Hizer - Video about Jesus’s Birthday is 9/11/ 3 BC lol
• Thomas Aquinus - Summa Theologica (biglotal edition)
• Roger Bacon - Summa Grammatica (even latin version impossible to find)
• Rene Guenon - Something something modernity
• Reign of Quantity and SIgns of the Times (regne de la quantite et les signes du temps)
• Moldbug on the American Revolution
• Nia Maya Adams: A Southside View of Slavery
• Salvador Borego Escalante - Durota Mundial
• Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Seleccion - Nicolas Gomez Davila
• E. Michael Jones - Libido Dominandi
• Why Democracies Fail - Lorin something
• The Foxfire Books
• Orality and Literacy - Walter Ong

Podcats:

• The Insight - Razim Kahn and Spencer Wells (geneticists)
• The Myth of the 20st Century

James Nestor

• North American Indians - George Catlin
• The Breath of Life / Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life - George Catlin
• Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians - George Catlin
• The 8-Hour Sleep Paradox: How We Are Sleeping Our Way to Fatigue, Disease, and Unhappiness - Mark Burhenne
• Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth - Kelder
• Dr. Breath: The Story of Breathing Coordination - Carl and Reece Stough
• Breathing Slower and Less: The Greatest Health Discovery Ever - Artour Rakhimov
• My Journey to Lhasa - Alexandra David-Néel
• The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe - Stephen W. Porges
• Sleep Interrupted: A Physician Reveals the #1 Reason Why So Many of Us Are Sick and Tired - Steven Park

Nassim Taleb

• Saint-John Perse
• Elias Canetti
• Walter Benjamin
• André Breton
• Paul Eluard
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• Georges Parec -book detailing full events of 2 says in 1974

Persea Books

• Madrigalia - Lisa Russ Spaar
• Poems of Nazim Hikmet - Nazim Hikmet
• Human Landscapes from My Country - Nazim Hikmet
• The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan
• Lexicon Urthus - Michael Andre-Driussi
• The Wizard Knight Companion: A Lexicon for Gene Wolfe’s The Knight and The Wizard - Michael Andre-Driussi

Gaurdian 100 best books of all time

• 1984 by George Orwell, England, (1903-1950)
• A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906)
• A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910)
• The Aeneid by Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC)
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957)
• Blindness by Jose Saramago, Portugal, (1922-2010)
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935) have
• The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC) have
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881) have
• Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)
• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400) have
• The Castle by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
• Children of Gebelawi by Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911)
• Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986)
• Complete Poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837)
• The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924)
• The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849)
• Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928)
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852) have
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
• Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375)
• The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967)
• Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936)
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321) have
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616)
• Essays by Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592)
• Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875) have
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832)
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553)
• Gilgamesh Mesopotamia, (c 1800 BC)
• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870) have
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745)
• Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
• History by Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985)
• Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952)
• The Idiot by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
• The Iliad by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)
• Independent People by Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994)
• Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784)
• Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961)
• King Lear by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977)
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880)
• The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955)
• Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC)
• The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942) (Read Vol 1 and 2 so far) have
• The Mathnawi by Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273)
• Medea by Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC)
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987)
• Metamorphoses by Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC) have
• Middlemarch by George Eliot, England, (1819-1880) have
• Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947)
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891) have
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)
• Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300)
• Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924)
• The Odyssey by Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC)
• Oedipus the King Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC)
• Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928)
• The Orchard by Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292)
• Othello by William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616)
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986)
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002)
• Poems by Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970)
• The Possessed by Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817) have
• The Ramayana by Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC)
• The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa, India, (c. 400)
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal, France, (1783-1842)
• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922) have
• Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929)
• Selected Stories by Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904)
• Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962)
• The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972)
• The Stranger by Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960)
• The Tale of Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (c 1000)
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930)
• Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500)
• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924) have
• Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989)
• Ulysses by James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941) have
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, England, (1818-1848)
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957)

E-Books / Links

• E-Books

Links

• https://www.datawranglers.com/negations/issues/96w/96w_peretti.html
• https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/
• https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_03_18.htm
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/
• https://www.iep.utm.edu/derrida/
• Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society
• Mathematical Fictionalism