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== Books to Buy ==
== Books to Buy ==


* Alan Watts The Book: on the taboo against knowing who you are
* The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: A Planetary Experiment
* TonyInterrupter (and other books by) - Nicola Barker
* the moebius book - Catherine Lacey
* Gormenghast
* Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein and Frankenstein : Reinventing the Universe by John Brockman
* gertrude stein: an afterlife
* Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod
* What is the Name of this Book: Raymond Smullyan
* On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Thompson
* Thought Contagion: How Ideas Act Like Viruses - Aaron Lynch
* The Scheme of Things (and others) - Allen Wheelis
* L'homme microscopique - Pierre Auger
* The Hidden Spring - mark solms
* Eric Ambler - Cause for Alarm
* Alpha and Omega - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341417
* the Whole is Simpler than its Parts - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341158
* Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories
* Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories
* The Flat Mind
* On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
* Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
* Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
* Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
* Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
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* Reading to Learn - William Zinger
* Reading to Learn - William Zinger
* Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
* Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
* A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
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== Currently Reading ==
== Currently Reading ==


* [[Atomic Habits]] - James Clear
* [[Atomic Habits]] - James Clear
* [[Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott]]- Sabine Vöhringer
*[[Die Montez-Juwelen]] - Sabine Vôhringer
* [[The Book: A Cover-to-Covet Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time]] - Keith Houston
* [[The Society of Mind]] - Marvin Minsky
* [[Le Père Goriot]] - Honore Balzac


== Books Read ==
== Books Read ==


=== 2025 (week 17) ===
=== 2025 (week 40) ===
 
* 40. [[Gravity's Rainbow]] - Thomas Pynchon (re-read)
* 39. [[Le Colonel Chabert]] - Balzac
* 38. [[Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett]] - James Knowlson (re-read)
* 37. [[Reading for the Plot]]: Design and Intention in Narrative - Peter Brooks (re-read)


* [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath
* 36. [[Steps to an Ecology of Mind]] - Gregory Bateson (re-read)
* [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read)
* 35. [[Le Bilan de L'intelligence]] - Paul Valéry
* [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 34. [[Zero]] - Charles Seife
* [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett
* 33. [[Alan Turing: The Enigma]] - Andrew Hodges
* [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin
* 32. [[How to Do Things with Words]] - J L Austin
* [[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 31. [[The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society]] - Norbert Wiener
* [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]]
* 30. [[The Mind is Flat]]: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind - Nick Chater
* [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter
* 29. [[Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI]] - John Brockman
* [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett
* 28. [[A Little History of Philosophy]] - Nigel Warburton
* [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco
* 27. [[All Fours]] - Miranda July
* [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux
* 26. [[Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern]] - Douglas R Hofstadter
* [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett
* 25. [[The French Lieutenant’s Woman]] - John Fowles
* [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read)
* 24. [[Short Stories in German for Beginners]] - Olly Richards
* [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco
* 23. [[On the Calculation of Volume: 2]] - Solvej Balle
* [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque
* 22. [[Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity, and the Emergence of Life]] - John Gribbin
* 21. [[Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott]]-  Sabine Vöhringer
* 20. [[Maus]] - Art Spiegelman
* 19. [[On the Calculation of Volume: 1]] - Solvej Balle
* 18. [[The Concept of Mind]] - Gilbert Ryle
* 17. [[Cognitive Neuroscience: A Very Short Introduction]] - Richard Passingham
* 16. [[The Experience Machine]] - Andy Clark
* 15. [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath
* 14. [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read)
* 13. [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 12. [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett
* 11. [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin
* 10.[[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo
* 9. [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]]
* 8. [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter
* 7. [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett
* 6. [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco
* 5. [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux
* 4. [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett
* 3. [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read)
* 2. [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco
* 1. [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque


=== 2024 ===
=== 2024 ===

Latest revision as of 10:05, 5 October 2025

Books to Buy

  • Alan Watts The Book: on the taboo against knowing who you are
  • The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: A Planetary Experiment
  • TonyInterrupter (and other books by) - Nicola Barker
  • the moebius book - Catherine Lacey
  • Gormenghast
  • Einstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein and Frankenstein : Reinventing the Universe by John Brockman
  • gertrude stein: an afterlife
  • Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod
  • What is the Name of this Book: Raymond Smullyan
  • On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Thompson
  • Thought Contagion: How Ideas Act Like Viruses - Aaron Lynch
  • The Scheme of Things (and others) - Allen Wheelis
  • L'homme microscopique - Pierre Auger
  • The Hidden Spring - mark solms
  • Eric Ambler - Cause for Alarm
  • Alpha and Omega - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341417
  • the Whole is Simpler than its Parts - https://www.amazon.fr/dp/1961341158
  • Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories
  • Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
  • Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
  • A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)
  • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
  • Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
  • Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
  • The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
  • Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
  • Consolations - David Whyte

Books to Read

  • Reading to Learn - William Zinger
  • Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

Currently Reading

Books Read

2025 (week 40)

2024

  • The Plot - Will Eisner
  • The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
  • The Nonjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo
  • When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (reread)
  • The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities - Fauconnier and Turner
  • The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil
  • Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
  • Le Ton Beau de…
  • The Origins of Creativity - Edward O Wilson
  • Psychonauts -
  • The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
  • In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel
  • Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson
  • Les Effinger - Gabriele Target
  • Triad - Tom Keve
  • Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig
  • The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich
  • How Language Works - David Crystal
  • The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf
  • The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel Dennett
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