Books
Welcome to my digital bookshelf
Here you'll find every book I've read, more or less, along with a rating of 1-10 how strongly I recommend each book. Some books might be missing from this list, since I only started it a few years back and had to rely on memory for past books I read. For the same reason, some books might be missing dates or ratings or other info. If you want, try sorting by: rating, latest, or alphabetical. Or try looking at these categories: any, biography, business, fiction, foreign, literature, non-fiction, and theory.
Raison d'être
Do you wonder why this page exists? A great treasure in my reading life has been thumbing through other digital bookshelves such as sivers/books, gatesnotes, as well as a few others, but primarily those. And ever since I was introduced to the concept I knew I'd someday want to build one myself. So consider this a way to pay it forward.
88 Results - Literature - sorted by alphabetical
1984
George Orwell
Literature
9/10 - May 2014
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Literature
May 2017
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Literature
May 2011
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Literature
May 2011
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Literature
Aug 2014
Beowulf
J.R.R. Tolkein (translator)
Literature
May 2010
Brave New World
Alduous Huxley
Literature
Aug 2011
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2010
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2008
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Literature
May 2014
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Literature
Dec 2008
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literature
Oct 2014
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Literature
Aug 2010
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Literature
Mar 2019
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Apr 2017
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Literature
Aug 2010
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Literature
Sep 2014
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Literature
Aug 2007
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Literature
Dec 2009
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Sep 2019
Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (editor)
Literature
May 2010
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature
Dec 2010
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2012
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Oct 2016
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Literature
May 2008
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Literature
Aug 2006
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
Literature
Dec 2018
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Literature
Aug 2013
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Nov 2016
Light in August
William Faulkner
Literature
Aug 2010
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
Literature
Aug 2009
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Literature
Jun 2014
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
Literature
Mar 2016
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Literature
May 2009
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2010
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2008
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Literature
Sep 2014
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
Feb 2018
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2008
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literature
Mar 2019
Night
Elie Wiesel
Literature
Aug 2010
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Sep 2016
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Literature
May 2007
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
May 2007
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Aug 2013
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Literature
Aug 2009
Othello
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2012
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Literature
May 2007
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
May 2018
Post Office
Charles Bukowski
Literature
Mar 2015
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Literature
May 2009
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literature
May 2019
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2009
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Literature
Aug 2010
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Literature
Aug 2007
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Literature
Apr 2017
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Jan 2018
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
J.R.R. Tolkien (translator)
Literature
Dec 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2008
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Literature
Jan 2015
Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann von Goethe
Literature
Feb 2018
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Literature
Aug 2010
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Apr 2018
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature
Dec 2007
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Literature
May 2011
The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Sep 2018
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
Jan 2015
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Literature
Aug 2011
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2011
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Literature
May 2009
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Literature
Dec 2010
The Trial
Frank Kafka
Literature
Oct 2014
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Literature
Aug 2010
Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
Literature
May 2019
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Feb 2018
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Jul 2016
Women
Charles Bukowski
Literature
Feb 2015
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Literature
Dec 2009
Quotes
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen" - Samuel Johnson
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tat Tvam Asi" - Chandogya Upanishad