Books I read¶

Influences on my life¶

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by M.C. Richards
• The Three-Body Problem Series by Liu Cixin
• Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue

Prince Era¶

I plan to spend the spring and summer in Europe, reading and writing. I finally give myself permission to read philosophy now that I've got some seasoning, and I'm excited to see what I can learn from the lense of my own life.

• Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han

Highlights¶

• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
• In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by M.C. Richards
• The Will to Change by bell hooks
• Psychopolitics by Byung Chul Han
• Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre
• China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
• More than Human by Dazai
• The Three-Body Problem Series by Liu Cixin
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
• Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue
• Works of Rumi, Ren Hang, and Basho

Recommendation from others I have not yet read¶

• The Three Cornered World by Natsume Soseki
• Mans' Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo