My Bookshelf
I like to read. Books I’m reading or have read are generally posted on here and updated. Some of the books will not have their own page, but occasionally I will backlink to them with quotes and insights I’ve had from each particular read.
Top Reads
Ratings are rounded down. So, you might see something that I’ve rated as a 4.5 rated as 4 stars.
| Author | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi | The Spiderwick Chronicles | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Grace Blakeley | Vulture Capitalism | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Laozi | Dao de jing | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Osamu Dazai | Flowers of Buffoonery | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Viktor Frankl | Man’s Search for Meaning | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| David Graeber | Bullshit Jobs | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| R. F. Kuang | Babel, or The Necessity of Violence | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| R. F. Kuang | Kuang - Katabasis | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| William Styron | Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Voltaire | Candide | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Liz Worth | The Power of Tarot | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Frank Herbert | Dune | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Frank Herbert | Dune Messiah | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Peter Grey | Lucifer Princeps | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Albert Camus | The Myth of Sisyphus | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Osamu Dazai | No Longer Human | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Bret Ellis | American Psycho | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Shusaku Endo | Silence | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Shirley Jackson | We Have Always Lived in the Castle | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Alan Moore | V for Vendetta | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Letters to a Young Poet | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Cat’s Cradle | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Oscar Wilde | Picture of Dorian Gray: Uncensored | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
Currently Reading
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Edmund Burke | A Philosophical Enquiry |
| Derek Murphy | Evil Be My Good |
| Doreen Valiente | Witchcraft for Tomorrow |
| Benebell Wen | Holistic Tarot |
Want to Read
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Anatole France | Revolt of the Angels |
| Sadeq Hedayat | Blind Owl |
| Thomas Ligotti | Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Machiavelli - The Prince |
| Mary Shelley | The Last Man |
| Percy Shelley | Prometheus Unbound |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Player Piano |
My Most Precious Books
Everyone has a set of books on their shelf that are especially precious to them. Mine?
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
- Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall