To-Read
The concept of the antilibrary emphasizes the value of unread books. This idea is similar to the Japanese term Tsundoku (積ん読), which refers to the practice of acquiring books and letting them pile up without reading them.
- People of the Deer by Farley Mowat
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio by Thomas S. Lewis
- The Mouse That Roared (The Mouse That Roared, #1) by Leonard Wibberley
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé
- Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- How To Make The Best Coffee At Home by James Hoffmann
Currently Reading
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
- Kudüs: Bir Şehrin Biyografisi by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Read
2024
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
- Çalınan Dikkat: Neden Odaklanamıyoruz? by Johann Hari
- Sınırın Güneyinde, Güneşin Batısında by Haruki Murakami
- Ways of Seeing by John Berger
- Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1) by Haruki Murakami
- Yavaşla! by Kemal Sayar
- On Palestine by Noam Chomsky
- Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
- Der Judenstaat. English by Theodor Herzl
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
- The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
2023
- Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
- The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood by Tim Ingold
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff
- Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne
- The Story of Us by Tim Urban
- The Vision of Islam by William C. Chittick
- Palyatif Toplum, Günümüzde Acı by Byung-Chul Han
- The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon
- Théorie du voyage by Michel Onfray
- On the Happy Life: St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues by Augustine of Hippo
- Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
- Teşhir Toplumu by İslam Can
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
- İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? by Leo Tolstoy
2022
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Rework by Jason Fried
- Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer
- The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
2021
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
- Talking to Humans by Giff Constable
- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
- Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
<2020
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Serenad by Zülfü Livaneli
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman