Last Updated: Jan. 22, 2025

Below are some books I’ve read or like but is by no means comprehensive. To see that and what I’m currently reading, I occasionally update my Goodreads. There is almost always something in progress from the Western Canon.

Would highly recommend (*)

  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang*
  • Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang*
  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang*
  • Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  • Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang*
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • What is Life by Erwin Schrödinger
  • Hamlet by Shakespeare
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • The Foundation Series (original trilogy) by Isaac Asimov
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull*
  • Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis*
  • Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
  • Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • How to by Randall Munroe
  • Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling*
  • Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis*
  • The Chronicles of Narina by C.S. Lewis
  • A selected collection of the Great Learning by Zengzi
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
  • Beyond Basketball by Mike Krzyzewski
  • The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
  • The Best Things in Life by Peter Kreeft
  • Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien*
  • Surpised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
  • Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft