Shelf

April 05, 2025

• Henry Morley, Ideal Commonwealths
• Alexandre Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles
• Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind
• Esteban A. Calzetta and Bei-Lok Hu, Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory
• Valentino Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
• Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
• Michael Dummett, Origins of Analytical Philosophy
• Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars: Female Edition
• Stanislaw Lem, Dialogues
• Hideyuki Matsumura, Commutative Ring Theory
• G. A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence
• Gerard Debreu, Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium
• Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
• J. M. E. McTaggart, Studies in Hegelian Cosmology
• C. E. Shannon and J. McCarthy, Automata Studies
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• Luke Sutherland, Venus as a Boy
• William Jennings Bryan, Memories of William Jennings Bryan
• Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death
• Aristophanes, Lysistrata
• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
• Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
• Godfrid Storms, Anglo-Saxon Magic
• Anatoly Fomenko and Dmitry Fuchs, Homotopical Topology
• Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
• Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
• Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
• Charles Stross, Accelerando
• qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
• David Fischer Hackett, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkwways in America
• Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• C. S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost
• Kathryn Paige Harden, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
• Philip Roth, The Human Stain
• Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
• Victor W. Guillemin & Alan Pollack, Differential Topology
• Geoffrey Clive, The Romantic Enlightenment
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• William Shakespeare, Othello
• William Buck, Mahabharata
• Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin
• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms
• Plato, The Republic
• Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse
• Paul Feyerabend, Against Method
• Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
• Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities
• Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
• G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
• John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
• Francis Bacon, The Novum Organon, or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature
• Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
• Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
• Frank Herbert, Dune