WHAT IโVE READ IN 2025
1 Simone Weil: An Anthology ๐๐๐โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
2 In Praise of Shadows by Junโichiro Tanizaki ๐๐.5
3 Dogenโs Shobogenzo Book 1 ๐๐๐โธ๏ธ
4 Eternal History by Madame X ๐๐
5 Gurdjieff: Making a New World by JG Bennett ๐๐๐โฎ๏ธ
6 โThe Pataphysics of Ghostsโ by Rene Daumal ๐๐๐
7 Practical Magick by Mitch Horowitz ๐๐๐
8 In Search of PD Ouspensky by Gary Lachman ๐๐๐๐
9 Gurdjieff Reconsidered by Roger Lipsey ๐๐๐
10 The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems of James Tate ๐๐๐๐
11 I Do Everything Iโm Told: poems by Megan Fernandes ๐๐.75
12 Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff by the de Hartmanns ๐๐๐๐คฏ
13 The Science of Being Great by Wallace Wattles ๐๐๐
14 Boyhood with Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters ๐๐๐๐พ
15 Happy Warriors by Mitch Horowitz ๐๐.75
16 In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine ๐๐๐๐
17 Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ๐๐๐๐๐
18 Teachings of Gurdjieff: A Pupil's Journal by CS Nott ๐๐๐
19 Magician of the Beautiful by Mitch Horowitz ๐๐
20 Feeling is the Secret by Neville ๐๐.5
21 In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky ๐๐๐๐
22 The Power of Unlimited Imagination: A Collection of Neville ๐๐๐
23 Life is Real Only Then, When โI Amโ by Gurdjieff ๐๐
24 The Psychology of Manโs Possible Evolution by Ouspensky ๐๐๐๐
25 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse ๐๐๐
26 Maurice Nicoll: A Portrait by Beryl Pogson ๐๐๐๐
27 Venture with Ideas: Meetings with Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Kenneth Walker ๐๐๐๐
28 Living Time by Maurice Nicoll ๐๐๐๐
29 Taipei by Tao Lin ๐๐.5
30 Views from the Real World: Early Talks of Gurdjieff ๐๐๐๐
31 Eating the โIโ by William Patrick Patterson ๐๐.75
32 Gurdjieff Group Work with Wilhem Nyland ๐๐๐
33 Whiskey for the Holy Ghost ๐๐๐
34 Further Teachings of Gurdjieff by CS Nott ๐๐๐
35 Idiots in Paris: Diaries of JG Bennett and Elizabeth Bennett, 1949 ๐๐๐๐ฅฒ
36 All Fours by Miranda July๐๐๐
WHAT I READ IN 2024
1) Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin ๐๐.5
2) The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1805 Edition) ๐๐.5
3) Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson ๐๐๐
4) This Time by Gerald Stern ๐๐.5
5) A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, edited and translated by Richard Zenith ๐๐.5 (tho the Alberto Caeiro poems are ๐๐๐๐)
6) Modern Occultism by Mitch Horowitz ๐๐.5 (fascinating info but full of typos & generally a little all-over-the-place)
7) Views from the Real World: Early Talks from G.I. Gurdjieff ๐๐๐
8) Gurdjieff: His Life and Ideas by John Shirley ๐๐๐๐
9) In Search of the Miraculous by Ouspensky ๐๐๐
10) Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal ๐๐๐
11) The Golden Thread by Joscelyn Godwin ๐๐๐
12) Pluralistic Universe by William James ๐๐๐๐
13) Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates ๐๐.5
14) Walking to Marthaโs Vineyard by Franz Wright ๐๐๐
15) What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver ๐๐.5
16) Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake ๐๐.5
17) Politics and the Occult by Gary Lachman ๐๐๐
18) The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch ๐๐๐
19) Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung ๐๐๐๐
20) The Art of Memory by Frances Yates ๐๐.5.
21) The Theosophical Enlightenment by Joscelyn Godwin ๐๐
22) The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda ๐๐๐
23) Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction ๐ by JD Salinger ๐๐๐
24) Franny and Zooey ๐ by Salinger ๐๐๐
25) Big Sur by Jack Kerouac ๐๐.5
26) The Dharma Bums by Kerouac ๐๐๐
27) Valis by Philip K Dick ๐๐๐
28) Catcher in the Rye ๐๐
29) Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald ๐๐๐
30) Rule of the Bone ๐๐๐๐
31) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick ๐๐๐๐
32) Ubik by PKD ๐๐.5.
33) Return to the City of White Donkeys by James Tate ๐๐.5
34) The Trail by Kafka ๐๐๐๐
35) Introduction to Tantra by Lama Yeshe ๐๐.75
36) Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy by Georg Feuerstein ๐๐.75
37) Infinite Potential by Neville Goddard ๐๐๐
38) Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse ๐๐.5
39) The Myth of Freedom by Trungpa ๐๐๐๐
40) Selections from In the Dust of This World by Eugene Thacker ๐๐๐
41) โThe Willowsโ by Algernon Blackwood ๐๐๐๐
42) Steppenwolf by Hesse ๐๐๐
43) True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna ๐๐๐
44) Will Oldham on Bonnie Prince Billy ๐๐๐ ๐ป
45) Braided Creek: Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison ๐๐.5
46) Portable Emerson ๐๐๐๐ป
47) William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism ๐๐๐๐
48) Simone Weil Anthology ๐๐๐ ๐
Books Read in 2017
Artemis in Echo Park by Elois Klein Healy
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Techgnosis by Erik Davis
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo by Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practioner's Guide by Ben Connelly
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan
The Young and the Digital by S Craig Watkins
Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles
OK by Kool AD
Zealot by Reza Aslan
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
Windows/Walls/Yard/Ways by Larry Eigner
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurtzweil
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki
McLuhan Hot & Cold
Conversations with Pinter by Mel Gussow
From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
John Muir: Apostle of Nature by Thurman Wilkins
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by Ron Padgett
Don't Be a Jerk by Brad Warner
Awake in this Life by Michael Mcalister
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
True Notebooks by Mark Salzman
There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce by Morgan Parker
City Poet: Life & Times of Frank O'Hara by Brad Gooch
The Myth of Freedom by Chogyam Trungpa