Surprisingly, for a terminally online computer scientist, I actually really, really like to read.

The following is a list of various books I’ve read across differernt genres, with some descriptions or a set of my thoughts. Anything incredibly long will just get a separate blog post.

Books I read in 2024-25

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Books I read in 2023-2024

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

(I know these are plays, not books, but bear with me here)

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Books I read prior

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Books that I’ve started previously but still have yet to finish

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Jihad vs. McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Books I have yet to read and are currently in my possession/on my shelf

• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• How Not To Get Shot by D.L. Hughley
• Dungeons n’ Durags by Ron Dawson
• Talks with the Moon King by Mitchell Hall
• The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody Allen
• The Holy Bible, New International Edition
  • Particularly the books of Levitacus, Job, Genesis, and Matthew.
• Beowulf
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Tambaoga Mwanangu by Giles Kuimba
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Books I have yet to read and I do not currently own

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
• Don Quixote (or “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, and Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
• Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous