books for 2025
fiction
- To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)
spirituality
- Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
- Works of Love (Søren Kierkegaard)
- Fear and Trembling (Søren Kierkegaard)
- The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan W. Watts)
- Confession (Leo Tolstoy)
- Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
self / art
- The Sense of Style (Steven Pinker)
- The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)
- In Praise of Shadows (Jun’ichirō Tanizaki)
tech/world
- Breakneck (Dan Wang)
books for 2024
- How Proust Can Change Your Life (Alain de Botton)
- Man's Search for meaning (Viktor Frankl)
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition (Willian Strunk)
- Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
- Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)
- Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
- Several Short Sentences About Writing (Verlyn linkenborg)
- How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Naval Ravikant)
- Make Something Wonderful (Steve Jobs)
my information diet
- Asterisk
- Works in Progress
- Bored Reading
- The Brutalist Report
- DAILY ROTATION
- LessWrong
- HackerNews
- Slashdot
- Lobsters
- Bear Blog
- Read Something Great
- Read Something Wonderful
- Hypertext as Literature
ideas i want to revisit
- Evergreen notes
- Life is Short
- How to Do Great Work
- Ancient Rivers of Money
- How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
- Conviction is the Scarcest Resource: Dialogues About Conviction
list of essays
- Hypertext as Literature
- Great essays · Applied Cartography
- My favorite essays of life advice | benkuhn.net
- My Favorite Essays | favorite_essays
- Read Something Wonderful
- Words That Matter
- Lists — Joanne Peng
- Links | near.blog
paris review interviews
- Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction No. 40
- Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84
- Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134
- Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135
- Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182
- David Mitchell, The Art of Fiction No. 204
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Art of Fiction No. 221