- This does not contain every book I've ever read. I don't remember most of them. It's more like, every book I've read in the last few years, plus some I happened to remember from a long time ago.
- There is no order or categorization other than completed/unfinished, because I don't remember the order I read everything, and sorting was too much work. I think I will update by adding new books to the top.
- I am only considering written text, so no manga. Longform essays and articles and other dubious not-technically-books may or may not be included.
- FNaF books are in this txt file instead.
- I don't have a completely consistent cutoff for how deeply I must have read into a book for it to get in the "Unfinished" category, but I've excluded some books I've only read a few pages of. There are some listed that I haven't read very far at all, and some I've read more than 90% of. The average is probably something like 4 chapters.
Completed:
- Inadequate Equilibria
- Spacetime algebra as a powerful tool for electromagnetism
- Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
- That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
- The Triflers
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- A Brief History of Time
- Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
- Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
- Complexity: A Guided Tour
- Story of the Eye
- Introduction to Systems Theory (Luhmann)
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
- The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
- Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
- The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
- General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Bertalanffy)
- Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization
Short guide to normified psychoanalysis.
Book by edgy youtuber Mumkey Jones, PCP-adjacent back when there was a PCP to be adjacent to. I liked it. Shock value and edgy cringe and a school shooting depicted as pathetic rather than glamorous.
I liked it when I read it as a kid but I don't remember it very well. Angela Collier's video has given me more negative feelings toward it and Feynman in general since then.
Largely boring I think, but there was one chapter about human noticeability from space I remember liking.
Canonical popphys slop.
Frantic, sexual, gross, exciting.
Really liked it in the beginning but got increasingly tired of it as I progressed. It kind of feels like Luhmann is using Scotch tape to stick together his surface-level understanding of a million complex subjects. (Obviously hard to say considering my own understandings are no better, though I've heard similar accounts from others.) I never felt like I got a good grasp on his system; I became more familiar but it never really all clicked together.
.......yeah..........
Very nice characterization of economic activity from a zoomed-out, loosely thermodynamic perspective.
Broad explorations swirling around an illusory foundation for GST. I really liked it, though it doesn't actually seem very good as a foundation for a discipline? Most of the good stuff is zoomed through pretty early on, when he derives a bunch of simple laws from basic fourier series.
Unfinished:
- Whipping Girl
- Difference and Structure: Deleuze and Ontic Structural Realism
- Pride and Prejudice
- Mythologies (Barthes)
- Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
- Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy
- Permutation City
- Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
- Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
- Introduction to Elementary Particles (Griffiths)
- Semiotics for Beginners (Chandler)
- System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (Wilden)
- Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
- Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems
- Brain of the Firm
- Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (Sean Carroll)
- Fanged Noumena
- An Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby)
- Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
- The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- Mindfulness in Plain English
- Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Laws of Form
- Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications (Zettili)
- Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
- The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis
- Cute Accelerationism
- Beautiful Fighting Girl
- Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
- Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
- The Sublime Object of Ideology
- The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
- Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus: A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics
- Physics From Symmetry
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy
- Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine
- Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind
- Difference and Repetition
- Bergsonism
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- Lolita
- House of Leaves
- Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic
- Neuromancer
- The Second Sex
- Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus': A Reader's Guide (Ian Buchanan)
- Introduction to Electrodynamics (Griffiths)
- Classical Electrodynamics (Jackson)
- The Classical Theory of Fields (Landau & Lifshitz)
- Quantum Field Theory (Tong)
- Structural Anthropology
- The Posthuman (Braidotti)
- Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis (Holland)
- Negotiations 1972-1990 (D&G)
- The Intentional Stance
- An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Langer)
- The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
- A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior
- Guattari Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari's Major Writings
- Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Somers-Hall)
- Symbolism, its Meaning and Effect
- On the Genealogy of Morals
- The Mental and the Material
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
- Deleuze and Queer Theory
- The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
- Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
- The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy; Volume II. The History of Eroticism and Volume III. Sovereignty
- Geometric Algebra for Physicists
Begins with a vicious attack on "domesticated metaphysics" which value above all conformity to obscure in-group intuitions, ignoring the genuinely unintuitive revolutionary developments of modern physics.
I only read the introduction, but this seems interesting so I want to come back to it when I know Lacan better.
Read 1/4 of this with no prerequisite knowledge and enjoyed at first, but got increasingly annoyed as they kept whining about psychoanalysis without explaining their own system in a way I could understand. I've since studied around the book a lot, but haven't fully come back to it beyond the first few chapters. The QC's translation has been making me want to return lately, though.
Will come back when I'm in the mood.
Some fun stuff.
Nice exploration of the state-space framework. Didn't read into part 2 much but it looks like that's where he gets into requisite variety stuff.
Too tediously hand-holdy for my patience but it does effectively teach the material in a very accessible way.
It was funny when it randomly started talking about psychic powers.
Did not like the writing style.
I guess this book has been influential to the point of being integrated into common knowledge, because it mostly was just things I consider obvious. Not that there wasn't any insight to be found in having it all laid out with examples.
I get the basic idea of distinction preceding logic but I don't understand how the calculus emerges from that, or what it's good for.
Just a basic good textbook so far.
Very difficult but also very fun. Guattari seems extremely based.
Cute shitpost.
(It's a cult.)
Sad.
Pretty interesting.
Over my head but vaguely interesting.
Reading on LessWrong. Is good.
The ableism is merely concealed.