Bookshelf of the Bird πŸ•ŠοΈ

Books that changed my internal model of the world.

  • Herman Hesse (Glass Bead Game, Narcissus and Goldmund)

  • John Williams (Stoner, Butcher’s Crossing)

  • Christopher Alexander (The Timeless Way of Being, A Pattern Language)

  • Shirley Hazzard (The Transit of Venus)

  • Stephen Zweig (Beware of Pity, World of Yesterday)

  • Rachel Cusk (Outline Trilogy)

  • Greg Egan (Axiomatic)

  • Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace)

  • Jorge Luis Borges (Labyrinths)

  • Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life and Others)

  • Virginia Woolf (To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway)

  • Robert Caro (Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing)

  • Jeanette Winterson (The Passion)

  • Benjamin Labatut (When We Cease to Understand the World)

  • Robert Hass (Apple Trees at Olema - Poems)

  • Cixin Liu (Three Body Problem, Dark Forest)

  • Lawrence Weschler (Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees)

  • Brian Eno (A Year with Swollen Appendices)

  • Hayao Miyazaki (Starting Point, Turning Point)

  • Magda Szabo (Abigail, Hungarian)

Other interests include architecture (Le Corbusier, Olmsted, Alexander), painting (watercolor and large scale acrylics), and fitness (weightlifting, pilates, tennis). My other goal: I am trying to watch more films this year!