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Reading Lists
Earning a master's degree in English almost broke me of my love of reading. I don't have/make the time to read as much stuff as I used to. But I still make an effort from time to time. Here are some lists of some current books in my life or on my mind. (I've excluded books on technical, work-related topics).
Currently Reading:
Descartes, Discourse on Method and The Meditations
Seneca, Letters From A Stoic
Recently Read: Plato, The Republic
Karl Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. 1
Would Like to Read Soon:
Todd Buchholz, New Ideas from Dead Economists
Karl Popper, The Open Society & Its Enemies, Vol. 2
All-Time Favorites
Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
Graham Swift, Waterland
Graham Swift, Last Orders
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Richard Rorty, Philosophy & Social Hope
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, or, the Whale
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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