My Favorite Books





Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche)
The Gay Science (Nietzsche)
Zibaldone (Giacomo Leopardi)
Collected Aphorisms (EM Cioran)
Fruits of the Earth (Andre Gide)
The Immoralist (Andre Gide)
If it Die... (Andre Gide)
Alastor (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
The Night Land (William Hope Hodgson)
The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson)
Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
Complete Novels (Michel Houellebecq)
The Shards (Brett Easton Ellis)
Voyage to Arcturus (David Lindsay)
Earth Abides (George R. Stewart)
How are the Mighty Fallen (Thomas Burnett Swann)

Reflections & Maxims (Vouvenargues)
Maxims (La Rochefoucauld)
Waste Books (Lichtenberg)
Characters (La Bruyere)
Products of the Perfected Civilization (Chamfort)
Essays (Montaigne)
Letters (Seneca)
Satires (Horace)
Candide, Letters (Voltaire)

Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (Chateaubriand)
My Life (Benvenuto Cellini)
Confessions (Rousseau)
The Turning Point (Klaus Mann)
The World of Yesterday (Stefan Zweig)
Memoirs of Montparnasse (John Glassco)

The Idiot (Dostoevsky)
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
Ishi in Two Worlds (Theodora Kroeber)
Dancer from the Dance (Andrew Holleran)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
The Baron in the Trees (Italo Calvino)
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Siddhartha (Hesse)
Narcissus and Goldmund (Hesse)

Revolt of the Masses (Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
The Captive Mind (Csezlaw Milosz)
The Crisis of the European Mind (Paul Hazard)
European Thought in the 18th Century (Paul Hazard)
A History of Christian Thought (Paul Tillich)
Dawn to Decadence (Jacques Barzun)
Systematic Theology (Paul Tillich)
A History of Philosophy (Frederick Copleston)

The Bhagavad Gita
The Gospel of Ramakrishna (Swami Nikhilananda)
The Golden String (Bede Griffiths)
Sadhana: The Realization of Life (Rabindranath Tagore)
Walden (Thoreau)
Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker)
You are not a Gadget (Jaron Lanier)
The Blind Watchmaker (Richard Dawkins)
Liberalism and its Discontents (Francis Fukuyama)
Dawn to Decadence (Jacques Barzun)


Last updated May 2022