NOTE: the books I've read/am reading do not always reflect my beliefs/opinions. Started tracking manga since 2025 - at least one published volume - not one-shots or doujinshi - must be complete/discontinued ========================================================================================== = In Progress = The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Man & His Symbols (Carl Jung) The Practice (Seth Godin) [1RR] = 2025 = [11.18.2025] The History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell) [08.12.2025] 嫁いできた嫁が愛想笑いばかりしてる (マツモトケンゴ) [08.12.2025] 瞳ちゃんは人見知り (夏海ちょりすけ) [08.10.2025] りーちゃん (山本広大) = 2024 = [09.10.2024] Infinite Soul (Renaud Contini) [04.01.2024] Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki (Yoshida Kenkō & Kamo no Chōmei) [03.26.2024] Hermits: The Insights of Solitude (Peter France) [03.06.2024] The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa) [03.04.2024] The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) [03.01.2024] Digital Vegan (Andy Farnell) [02.27.2024] Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard) [02.23.2024] The Practice (Seth Godin) [02.21.2024] The Waste Books (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [02.07.2024] No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) [01.04.2024] Ivan the Terrible (Anne Fine) = 2023 = [??.??.2023] Letters on Ethics (Seneca) [??.??.2023] The Unknown Craftsman (Soetsu Yanagi) [??.??.2023] The Storm Before the Storm (Mike Duncan) = 2022 = [06.17.2022] Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) [05.12.2022] Walden (Henry David Thoreau) [05.02.2022] Classical English Rhetoric (Ward Farnsworth) [04.25.2022] So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport) [04.20.2022] The Paradox of Success (John R. O’Neil) [04.16.2022] On Writing Well (William Zinsser) [03.01.2022] Picture This: How Pictures Work (Molly Bang) = 2021 = [07.17.2021] Art & Faith (Makoto Fujimura) [05.02.2021] Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach) [03.21.2021] Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing) [03.07.2021] Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) [02.22.2021] On the Happy Life (Seneca) [02.18.2021] The Practicing Stoic (Ward Farnsworth) [02.09.2021] White (Kenya Hara) [02.09.2021] Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Leonard Koren) [02.08.2021] The Craftsman (Richard Sennett) [02.06.2021] The Shallows (Nicholas Carr) [02.05.2021] The Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene) [02.02.2021] In Praise of Shadows (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki) [02.02.2021] The Art of Learning (Josh Waitzkin) [01.27.2021] Art & Fear (David Bayles & Ted Orland) = 2020 = [05.31.2020] The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen (Kari Hotakainen) [05.23.2020] Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual (Jocko Willink) [05.06.2020] Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin W. Kimmerer) [04.20.2020] Help In Daily Living (Ellen G. White) [04.19.2020] 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B. Peterson) [04.14.2020] Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction (Gary Rogowski) [04.11.2020] It's All About Him (Lee Venden) [04.10.2020] Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life (Beth Kempton) [04.05.2020] The Courage to Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi) [04.05.2020] Discourses and Selected Writings (Epictetus) [03.31.2020] Stillness Is The Key (Ryan Holiday) [03.28.2020] The Pilgrim's Progress (John Bunyan) [03.26.2020] The Obstacle is the Way (Ryan Holiday) [03.25.2020] One Face (Sarah McDugal) [03.24.2020] Mastery (Robert Greene) [03.13.2020] The God-Shaped Heart (Timothy R. Jennings) [02.17.2020] On The Shortness of Life (Seneca) [02.19.2020] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) [01.28.2020] Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell) [01.27.2020] Can't Hurt Me (David Goggins) [01.18.2020] Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) [01.16.2020] The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) = 2019 = [12.26.2019] Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Eleanor Coerr) [12.26.2019] The End of Your Life Book Club (Will Schwalbe) [12.25.2019] Kokoro (Natsume Soseki) [12.24.2019] Fish In Exile (Vi Khi Nao) [12.19.2019] The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro) [12.16.2019] Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) [12.12.2019] The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy) [12.04.2019] The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) [12.03.2019] Notes from Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) [11.13.2019] The War Of Art (Steven Pressfield) [11.07.2019] Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Robert B. Cialdini) [11.??.2019] Letters from a Stoic (Seneca) [07.25.2019] When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi) [03.??.2019] Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown) [03.??.2019] Atomic Habits (James Clear) [03.??.2019] Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport) [02.03.2019] Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World... (Susan Cain) [02.??.2019] The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Elisabeth T. Bailey) [01.29.2019] The Stranger in the Woods (Michael Finkel) [01.29.2019] Make Your Bed (Wiliam H. McRaven) [01.24.2019] David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell) [01.19.2019] Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely) [01.??.2019] One Small Step Can Change Your Life (Robert Maurer) = 2018 = [12.13.2018] The Joy of X (Steven H. Strogatz) [12.??.2018] Deep Work (Cal Newport) [11.??.2018] A Mind for Numbers (Barbara Oakley) [10.02.2018] Brain Rules (John Medina) [09.19.2018] Ego Is The Enemy (Ryan Holiday) [07.??.2018] King Arthur and His Knights (Maude R. Warren) [07.??.2018] Heidi (Johanna Spyri) [07.??.2018] The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland... (Catherynne M. Valente) [07.??.2018] The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur C. Doyle) [06.27.2018] The Sun and Her Flowers (Rupi Kaur) [06.14.2018] Pachinko (Min Jin Lee) [03.16.2018] Education (Ellen G. White) [02.26.2018] Steps to Christ (Ellen G. White) [02.12.2018] Messages to Young People (Ellen G. White) [01.23.2018] Irresistable: The Rise of Addictive Technology... (Adam Alter) [01.07.2018] Christ's Object Lessons (Ellen G. White) = 2017 = [11.??.2017] 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (Thomas Frank) [08.??.2017] Outliers: The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell) [05.??.2017] Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) [04.??.2017] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) [03.??.2017] The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) = 2016 = [10.??.2016] The Martian (Andy Weir) [08.??.2016] Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) = 2015 and Before = [10.??.2015] Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) [11.??.2013] Erebos (Ursula Poznanski) [2012-2013?] The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)