BOOKS I'VE READ (titles in bold have an eternal spot on my bookshelf in heaven)
2024 1. A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux 2. The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector 3. Hangman by Maya Binyam 4. The Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Dusapin 5. Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes 6. Minor Details by Adania Shibli 7. Speedboat by Renata Adler 8. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 9. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 10. Eating Dirt by Charlotte Gill 11. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard 12. Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah 13. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 14. We Are All Equally Far From Love by Adania Shibli 15. Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
2023 1. The Intimate City by Michael Kimmelman 2. The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 3. Reciprocal Landscapes by Jane Hutton 4. Seeing Trees by Sonja Dümpelmann (1/2) 5. Houses of Ravicka by Renee Gladman 6. Life is Everywhere by Lucy Ives 7. Calamities by Renee Gladman 8. Loudermilk by Lucy Ives 9. Impossible Views of the World by Lucy Ives 10. Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra 11. Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra 12. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 13. My Work by Olga Ravn 14. Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai 15. Stoner by John Williams 16. Arabesques by Anton Shammas 17. The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
2022 1. Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino 2. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England by Carolyn Merchant 3. Here is New York by E.B. White 4. Drifts by Kate Zambreno 5. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson 6. Remembering Mr. 'Shawn's New Yorker' by Ved Mehta 7. Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn Heilbrun 8. The Divine Within by Aldous Huxley 9. Washington Square by Henry James 10. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
2021 1. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Marie Rilke 2. The Uncommon Ground by William Cronon (ed.) 3. Natural Architecture by Kengo Kuma 4. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima 5. Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco 6. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin 7. Atmospheres by Peter Zumthor 8. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2020 1. Second Nature by Michael Pollan 2. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain 3. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac 4. The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa 5. The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakua 6. In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 7. The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra 8. Essays in Idleness by Kenkō 9. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 10. The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida 11. What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy 12. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 13. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Bashō 14. Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos 15. You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski 16. What Kind of Love Did You Have In Mind? by Eric Folsom 17. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 18. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard 19. Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima 20. Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow 21. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber 22. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 24. Siddharta by Hermann Hesse 25. Demian by Hermann Hesse 26. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse 27. The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley 28. The Waves by Virginia Woolf 29. The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita by Rudolf Steiner 30. Rosshalde by Hermann Hesse 31. Be! by Paul Reps 32. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 33. Toward a New Theory of Architecture (Goetheanum) by Rudolf Steiner 34. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse 35. Square Sun, Square Moon by Paul Reps 36. Architecture as the Synthesis of the Arts by Rudolf Steiner 37. Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse 38. The Book of Love by Rumi 39. Yoga: The Science of the Soul (V1) by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 40. Thank you, Fog (Last Poems) by W.H. Auden 41. The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus by Henry Miller 42. Environmentalism of the Rich by Peter Dauvergne 43. Zen: The Special Transmission by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 44. Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis 45. M Train by Patti Smith 46. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky 47. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 48. The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley 49. Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
2019 1. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 2. The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra 3. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 4. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje 5. Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje 6. Island by Aldous Huxley 7. The Baghavad Gita Revealed by Sat Shree 8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1/2) 9. Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May 10. The City of the Senses by Kimberly DeFazio 11. The Sociological Imagination by Wright Mills 12. Ways of Seeing by John Berger 13. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 14. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 15. Keeping a Rendezvous by John Berger 16. The Pianoplayers by Anthony Burgess 17. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje 18. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 19. Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
2018 1. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski 2. Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo 3. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo 4. The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram 5. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran 6. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn 7. The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 8. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight 9. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 10. The History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore 11. Eat that Frog! by Brian Tracy 12. The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
2017 1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 3. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 5. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger