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During the past six months I have been challenged intellectually and aesthetically by these works: Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol 1-3, by Werner Jae

During the past six months I have been challenged intellectually and aesthetically by these works: Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol 1-3, by Werner Jaeger Diary by Witold Gombrowicz Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Sedgewick 2666 by Roberto Bolaño The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk Tomie: No Use Escaping by Junji Ito L’homme aux cercles by Fred Vargas Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Arpaci-Dusseau I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong. The Weird by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer The Federalist Papers, ed. by Kesler The Anti-Federalist Papers, ed. by Ketcham Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, new translation by John Woods Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine by Alan Lightman Loren Eiseley in the Library of America Edition Tu rostro mañana by Javier Marías The Complete Essays by Michel De Montaigne, translation by Screech Earning The Rockies by Kaplan Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert Nature Stories by Jules Renard Mac y su contratiempo by Enrique Vila-Matas Olinger Stories by John Updike Greek Science in Antiquity by Marshall Clagett At The Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell 100 Diagrams That Changed The World by Scott Christianson Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire by Peter Wilson Alec "The Years Have Pants" by Eddie Campbell Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane

copperx 7y ago
That's a great list, and thank you for including works in Spanish. Do you have more recommendations? I've been neglecting my Spanish reading and losing it little by little.
- vo2maxer 7y ago
  Yes, here are some I’ve read in the last year: Bartleby y compañía by Enrique Vila-Matas, on why writers give up or why they may be reluctant to write. It’s a mixture of fiction and biography, hard to tell which but fun searching for authors who may not exist. Las Constelaciones Oscuras by Pola Oloixarac. I think many in HN would like her work, this novel in particular. El Ejército Iluminado by David Toscana. Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti La Casa Verde by Mario Varga Llosa

copperx 7y ago

That's a great list, and thank you for including works in Spanish. Do you have more recommendations? I've been neglecting my Spanish reading and losing it little by little.

vo2maxer 7y ago
Yes, here are some I’ve read in the last year: Bartleby y compañía by Enrique Vila-Matas, on why writers give up or why they may be reluctant to write. It’s a mixture of fiction and biography, hard to tell which but fun searching for authors who may not exist. Las Constelaciones Oscuras by Pola Oloixarac. I think many in HN would like her work, this novel in particular. El Ejército Iluminado by David Toscana. Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti La Casa Verde by Mario Varga Llosa