This is a list of the books in my personal library. I haven’t read every book here, nor do I own all the books I’ve read or like. I also don’t necessarily like all the books I own.

Philosophy

  • Aristotle - The Art of Rhetoric
  • Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
  • Benatar, David - Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
  • Benatar, David - The Human Predicament: Life Without Illusions
  • Epicurus - The Art of Happiness
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Letters to a Young Contrarian
  • Hitchens, Christopher - Mortality
  • Hume, David - A Treatise of Human Nature
  • Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason
  • Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism
  • Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil
  • Plato - The Republic
  • Sidgwick, Henry - The Methods of Ethics
  • Singer, Peter - Animal Liberation
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur - Essays and Aphorisms
  • Tzu, Sun- The Art of War

Language

  • Caesar, Julius - De Bello Civilli (The Civil War)
  • Caesar, Julius - De Bello Gallico (The Gallic War)
  • Lawall, Gilbert - Ecce Romani
  • Oosterhoff, Jenneke A. - Basic Dutch
  • Ørberg, Hans - Lingua Latina per se Illustrata
  • Wheelock, Frederic M. - Wheelock’s Latin

General Science

  • Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Darwin, Charles - The Origin of Species
  • Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time
  • Krauss, Lawrence M. - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
  • Tyson, Neil deGrasse - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Computer Science

  • Ericson, Jon - Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
  • Stallman, Richard M. - Free Software, Free Society
  • Ward, Brian - How Linux Works
  • Zuboff, Shoshana- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Fiction

  • Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves
  • Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House
  • Langan, John - The Fisherman
  • Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita
  • Orwell, George - 1984

Psychology

  • Greene, Robert - The 48 Laws of Power
  • Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking, Fast and Slow

Other

  • Chernev, Irving - Logical Chess
  • LaBerge, Stephen - Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  • Ollam, Deviant- Practical Lock Picking
  • Seirawan, Yasser - Winning Chess Tactics

Suggestions

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