Here’s my research journey for the New book so far (From the latest week back to December 2023 when I started documenting it).
* Books I liked a lot
^ AMAZING Books
Week of November 25th, 2024
How to Think Like Socrates
Introducing: Derrida
Never Play it Safe
Supercommunicators
Ethics (Spinoza)
Introducing: Postmodernism
Week of November 18th, 2024
Transcend
Happier
What Would Nietzsche Do?
*The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Art of the Good Life
Week of November 11th, 2024
The Evolving Self (M. Csikszentmihalyi)
The Further Reaches of Human Nature (A. Maslow)
Toward a Psychology of Being (A. Maslow)
Ni Alta, Ni Baja, Construye Autentica Autoestima
Week of November 4th, 2024
^Living an Examined Life (James Hollis)
*Through the Dark Wood (James Hollis)
What Matters Most (James Hollis)
The Middle Passage (James Hollis)
Week of October 28th, 2024
*Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life (James Hollis)
Lincoln’s Melancholy
The Confident Mind
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder
Week of October 21st, 2024
The Will to Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Meaning in life and Why it Matters
*Clear Thinking
Same as Ever
Week of October 14th, 2024
^Being You
The Way of the Champion
The First Rule of Mastery
Finding Flow
*Meditations for Mortals
Week of October 7th, 2024
(Took a break from reading)
Week of September 30th, 2024
Stop Overthinking
Conscious
Week of September 23rd, 2024
Ride the Tiger (Julius Evola)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
The As If Principle
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Jung)
Essays:
—On Self Respect by Joan Didion
—Nietzsche for Today by Julius Evola
Week of September 16th, 2024
*The Noonday Demon
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
The Consolations of Philosophy (Alain de Botton)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Week of September 9th, 2024
Embracing Uncertainty
The Big Questions of Life (Om Swami)
What are you doing with your life (J. Krishnamurti)
Fear (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect
Dance first. Think later.
Week of September 2nd, 2024
Philosophy in 40 Ideas
Why Buddhism is True
The Meaning of Life
Heartbreak
The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius)
A More Exciting Life
Lyrical and Critical Essays (Camus, only read selected essays)
Week of August 25th, 2024
Thinking in Systems
That sucked. Now what?
Chatter
Introducing Hegel
For the TWO Weeks of August 12th to August 25th, 2024
The book of Disquiet (Pessoa, only read sections)
Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard)
The Little Book of Hygge
The Metamorphosis (Kafka, re-read)
Introducing Wittgenstein
Resilience (The Cambridge University press one)
Learned Optimism
Free Will (Sam Harris)
Week of August 5th, 2024
Philosophy: Who Needs it (Ayn Rand)
You, Happier
Hardwiring Happiness
The Art of Happiness
The Happiness Trap
Positivity
Week of July 29th, 2024
Life Lessons
How to Love
The Expectation Effect
Rules for a Knight
Self-Compassion
Week of July 22nd, 2024
The Good Life
Introducing: Lacan
Quit
Lost Connections
Week of July 15th, 2024
*On Becoming a Person (Carl Rogers)
Scars and Stripes (Tim Kennedy)
Embrace the Suck
A River to Live By (Morita Therapy)
Week of July 8th, 2024
Unbeatable Mind
*Resilience
Man’s Search for Himself
Albert Ellis’ Refuse to make yourself miserable
Alfred Adler Understanding Life
Week of July 1st, 2024
Alone on the Wall (Expanded Edition)
Confidence (from School of Life)
Do Hard Things
The Unexpected Gift of Trauma
*The Power of Regret
Week of June 24th, 2024
The Infidel and the Professor
Hegel (The Oxford University Press one)
Foucault (The Oxford University Press one)
*How to think like a Roman emperor
I also read the remaining three short essays by Hume on different life perspectives:
-The Epicurean
-The Stoic
-The Platonist
(I read “The Sceptic” a few weeks back)
Week of June 17th, 2024
The Art of Resilience
Existentialism is a Humanism
Endure (The Alex Hutchinson one)
Cómo hacer que te pasen Cosas buenas
Week of June 10th, 2024
Endure (The Cameron Hanes one)
A Little Happier
^ The Upside of Stress
The Paradox of Choice
Week of June 3rdth, 2024
When things fall apart
Afraid
*Fearvana
Don’t forget to Live
Not Fade Away
Week of May 27th, 2024
The Comfort Book
Dopamine Nation
Burnout
Be useful: Seven tools for life
Essay:
The Sceptic by David Hume
Week of May 20th, 2024
The Human Predicament
Candide (Voltaire)
Becoming Bulletproof
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds (William James Philosophy)
The world I live in and Optimism (Hellen Keller)
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the words of William James
Week of May 13th, 2024
What is Existentialism? (Beauvoir)
Hagakure
The First Philosophers
A Year with Rilke
The Comfort Crisis
Tiny Beautiful Things
Week of May 6th, 2024
The Gift
On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)
*A Guide to The Good Life
Philosophy of Existence (Karl Jaspers)
Don’t believe everything you think
The Upward Spiral
Heidegger: A Graphic Guide
Week of April 29th, 2024
^The Great Guide: David Hume
On Confidence
A Simpler Life
Self-Knowlege
Getting to Neutral
Varieties of Melancholy
On Self-hatred
On Failure
Anxiety
My Own Life (Hume)
Become who you are
Week of April 22nd, 2024
Denial of Death
Life is Hard
Humanly Possible
How Proust can Change your Life
Week of April 15th, 2024
*Four thousand weeks
The Antidote
Self-reliance and Other Essays Emerson
Wanting
*The Courage to be Disliked
How will you measure your life?
Struggle (mostly skimmed)
Week of April 8th, 2024
The Nicomanchean Ethics
*The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The power in you
*The road less travelled
*The Conquest of Happiness
Book of Job
The teachings of Zoroaster
^At the Existentialist cafe
Week of April 1st, 2024
The Book
The Prophet
How to die Happy
The Bed of Procrustes
Bittersweet
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Rochefaucauld Maxims
*Furiously Happy
*Darkness visible
Week of March 25th, 2024
No Longer Human
*Course: Philosophy as a guide to living
*Course: Existentialism and the Authentic Life
Nagomi
Ganbatte
Daring Greatly
Week of March 18th, 2024
Think Like a Monk
An Introduction to Buddhism
Pindar Odes
Happiness
Cleaning up your mental mess
Week of March 11th, 2024
Ariel
The unbearable lightness of being
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Tao Te Ching
Phosphorescence
Bhagavad Gita
Week of March 4th, 2024
*The little big things
101 Essays that will change the way you think
Zen mind, beginner mind
In the Dust of this planet
Feb 18th until March 3rd, 2024
*No excuses: Existentialism course
*A life of Meaning
*Dear fellow time-bender
The mountain is you
A Very Easy death
The untethered soul
Japanese Death Poems
How to Die Seneca
From December 1st, 2023 until Feb 17th, 2024
The great ideas of philosophy Course
*The meaning of Life Course
The last lecture
Tuesdays with Morrie
^The Gulag Archipelago
*The happiest man on earth
Siddhartha
Narcissus and Goldmund
The death of Ivan Ilych
Notes from the Underground
^The midnight Library
The Diary of a CEO
Inferior
Courage under fire
Pensamientos de un viejo
Letters from a Stoic
On living and Dying well
Meditations
Fragments
Enchiridion
Of peace of mind
Gratitude
That one should disdain hardships
How to live (sivers)
*You learn by Living
The Myth of Sisyphus
Letters to a Young Poet
The man in the Arena