What I have read
The books I have worked through and still hold, by the ground they cover.
The books I have read and still carry with me, grouped by what they cover.
If a book belongs on this list and has yet to reach it, send it to me. Recommendations are one of the few things I read to the end every time.
Send me a book — or straight to aureliusxradix@pm.me.
Practice and ritual
- The Golden DawnIsrael Regardiereading now
- The Middle PillarIsrael Regardiereading now
- Modern Sex MagickDonald Michael Kraig
- The Basics of ReikiPenelope Quest
- Autohypnosis for Bardon's IIHRay del Sole
- The KybalionThe Three Initiates
- The I Chingtraditional
- The Way of the PsychonautStanislav Grof
- DMT: The Spirit MoleculeRick Strassman
- High MagickDamien Echolsreading now
- The Star Gate Archives Vol 1May & Marwaha
- Initiation Into HermeticsFranz Bardon
- Preliminary Practice for Franz Bardon's Initiation into HermeticsRay del Sole
- Mystical Extra Training for Franz Bardon's Initiation into HermeticsRay del Sole
- Magick in Theory and PracticeAleister Crowley
- The Mystical QabalahDion Fortune
- A Garden of PomegranatesIsrael Regardie & Lon Milo DuQuette
- Ritual: An Essential GrimoireDamien Echols & Lorri Davis
- Angels and ArchangelsDamien Echols
- Gene KeysRichard Rudd
- On Divination & SynchronicityMarie-Louise von Franz
- Austin Osman SparePhil Baker
The sacred
- The Sacred Mushroom and the CrossJohn M. Allegro
- Dark Night of the SoulSt John of the Cross
- Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda
- The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell
- Of Water and the SpiritMalidoma Patrice Somé
- The Celestine ProphecyJames Redfield
- The Hidden Messages in WaterMasaru Emoto
- The Anunnaki of NibiruGerald Clark
- Bhagavad-gita As It IsA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Sri IsopanisadA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- The AlchemistPaulo Coelho
- Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the WorldRené Girardreading now
- RitualMalidoma Patrice Somé
- The Rites of PassageArnold van Gennep
- Gravity and GraceSimone Weil
- Adam's ReturnRichard Rohr
- The New Testamenttrans. David Bentley Hart
- The Jesus Driven LifeMichael Hardin
- The Not-Yet GodIlia Delio
- The Smell of Rain on DustMartín Prechtel
- Simulations of GodJohn C. Lilly
Psyche and depth
- The Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousC. G. Jung
- Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsC. G. Jung
- The Red BookC. G. Jung
- Understanding Human NatureAlfred Adler
- What Life Could Mean to YouAlfred Adler
- The Middle PassageJames Hollis
- Under Saturn's ShadowJames Hollis
- Finding Meaning in the Second Half of LifeJames Hollis
- Falling UpwardRichard Rohr
- SoulcraftBill Plotkin
- Women Who Run With the WolvesClarissa Pinkola Estés
- He — Understanding Masculine PsychologyRobert A. Johnson
- We — Understanding the Psychology of Romantic LoveRobert A. Johnson
- Human Design — The RevelationRichard Rudd
- The Courage to be DislikedKishimi & Koga
- The War of ArtSteven Pressfield
- Psycho-CyberneticsMaxwell Maltz
- The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle
- The Journey of Soul InitiationBill Plotkin
- Iron JohnRobert Bly
- King, Warrior, Magician, LoverRobert Moore & Douglas Gillette
- Owning Your Own ShadowRobert A. Johnson
- The Fisher King and the Handless MaidenRobert A. Johnson
- The Soul's CodeJames Hillman
- We've Had a Hundred Years of PsychotherapyJames Hillman & Michael Ventura
- Addiction to PerfectionMarion Woodman
- The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred AdlerAlfred Adler
- The Evolving SelfMihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Eye of SpiritKen Wilber
- The Religion of TomorrowKen Wilber
- You Must Change Your LifePeter Sloterdijk
- The Art of DreamingJill Mellick
- Volume 20 — General IndexC. G. Jung
Relationship
- Hold Me TightDr. Sue Johnson
- Wired for LoveStan Tatkin
- Mating in CaptivityEsther Perel
- Passionate MarriageDavid Schnarch
- Nonviolent CommunicationMarshall B. Rosenberg
- The Way of the Superior ManDavid Deida
- A General Theory of LoveThomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
Trauma and repair
- The Myth of NormalGabor Maté
- Psychosis or Mystical Religious ExperienceSusan L. DeHoff
- The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt
- Waking the TigerPeter A. Levine
- No Bad PartsRichard C. Schwartz
- In the Realm of Hungry GhostsGabor Maté
- Scattered MindsGabor Maté
Mind and consciousness
- The Master and His EmissaryIain McGilchrist
- Galileo's ErrorPhilip Goff
- Consciousness from a Broad PerspectiveDaniel Shanahan
- Active InferenceThomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo & Karl J. Friston
- Human Memory and Material MemorySpringer
- Neuroscience for PsychologistsMarc L. Zeise
- The Untethered Soul at WorkMichael A. Singer
- The Power of NowEckhart Tolle
- A New EarthEckhart Tolle
- As a Man ThinkethJames Allen
- Metaphysics from a Biological Point of ViewStephen Boulter
- ConsciousAnnaka Harris
- Mind and NatureGregory Bateson
- Small Arcs of Larger CirclesNora Bateson
- The Ghost in the MachineArthur Koestler
- The Body in the MindMark Johnson
- Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human BiocomputerJohn C. Lilly
- The Centre of the CycloneJohn C. Lilly
- The Foundations of AestheticsC. K. Ogden
Play and games
- Finite and Infinite GamesJames P. Carse
- Games — Agency As ArtC. Thi Nguyen
- The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of GamesC. Thi Nguyen and John R. Sageng (eds.)
Epistemics and method
- Echo Chambers and Epistemic BubblesC. Thi Nguyen
- Social Virtue EpistemologyMark Alfano, Colin Klein, and Jeroen de Ridder (eds.)
- The Seductions of ClarityC. Thi Nguyen
- Full Circle — The Moral Force of Unified ScienceEdward Haskell (with Harold Cassidy, Jere Clark, Arthur Jensen)
- The Mathematical Theory of CommunicationClaude E. Shannon & Warren Weaver
- An Introduction to Design SciencePaul Johannesson & Erik Perjons
- Cultural PsychologySpringer
- First Person Authority of ChildrenSpringer
- Epistemic Injustice - An IntroductionAidan McGlynn
- RhetoricAristotle
Power and institutions
- Manufacturing ConsentEdward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
- Who Rules the WorldNoam Chomsky
- The Concept of the PoliticalCarl Schmitt
- 1984George Orwell
- Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
- The Spirit LevelRichard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
- The Tyranny of MetricsJerry Z. Muller
- Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
- The Tyranny of StructurelessnessJo Freeman
- The Cultural CreativesRay & Anderson
- Requiem for the American DreamNoam Chomsky
- The Power EliteC. Wright Mills
- Black Skin, White MasksFrantz Fanon
- The Wretched of the EarthFrantz Fanon
- Modernity and the HolocaustZygmunt Bauman
- Carbon DemocracyTimothy Mitchell
- Complete WorksEdmund Burke
- Delphi Complete WorksFriedrich Nietzsche
- The G. K. Chesterton CollectionG. K. Chesterton
- No Spiritual SurrenderKlee Benally
Wealth and the commons
- The GiftLewis Hyde
- Complete Family WealthJames E. Hughes Jr., Susan E. Massenzio & Keith Whitaker
- Reputation — What It Is and Why It MattersGloria Origgi
- The ScoreC. Thi Nguyen
- Governing the CommonsElinor Ostrom
- DebtDavid Graeber
- Mutual AidPeter Kropotkin
- Sacred EconomicsCharles Eisenstein
- Deaths of Despair and the Future of CapitalismAnne Case & Angus Deaton
- A Primer for ForgettingLewis Hyde
- Trickster Makes This WorldLewis Hyde
Living systems
- Steps to an Ecology of MindGregory Bateson
- EnlivenmentAndreas Weber
- Tools for ConvivialityIvan Illich
- The Fifth Discipline FieldbookSenge, Kleiner, Roberts & Ross
- TribeSebastian Junger
- IshmaelDaniel Quinn
Building and trade
- Brand YouPurkiss & Royston-Lee
- Blue Ocean StrategyKim & Mauborgne
- Mode 3 Knowledge Production in Quadruple Helix Innovation SystemsCarayannis & Campbell
- The Open Innovation MarketplaceBingham & Spradlin
- Shaping the GameWatkins
- Entrepreneurship - A Process PerspectiveBaron & Shane
- Managing at the Speed of ChangeConner
- Mastering Game TheorySaglam
- The Art of Worldly WisdomBaltasar Gracián
Software craft
- Functional Programming in ScalaPaul Chiusano & Rúnar Bjarnason
- Beginning Software EngineeringRod Stephens
Technology and futures
- SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom
- Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari
- The Singularity is NearRay Kurzweil
- Our Posthuman FutureFrancis Fukuyama
- A Cyborg ManifestoDonna Haraway
- PluralityE. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang & ⿻ Community
- Decentralized Society — Finding Web3's SoulPuja Ohlhaver, E. Glen Weyl, Vitalik Buterin
- Star MakerOlaf Stapledon
- BlindsightPeter Watts
- An Introduction to Machine LearningMiroslav Kubat
- An Introduction to Knowledge EngineeringSimon Kendal & Malcolm Creen
- Outlier EnsemblesCharu C. Aggarwal & Saket Sathe
- AI 2041Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan
Business and organisation
- Human Resource StrategiesArmin Trost
- Zero to OnePeter Thiel
- Cognition and Business ModelsKristian J. Sund
- Business Model Innovation: Gamechangers and Contemporary IssuesSpringer
- Humanistic Leadership PracticesSpringer
- Small and Medium Sized Enterprise ResilienceSpringer
- Space Business: Emerging Theory and PracticeSpringer
- Own It!Springer
- Wellness CityAri-Veikko Anttiroiko
- Disruptive PsychopharmacologySpringer
- The Human Side of EnterpriseDouglas McGregor
Learning and the self-taught
- The Dyslexic EdgeJamie Waller (with Dr Helen Taylor)
- Education Kills HumanityDr Auke Schade
- The Eden ProjectJames Hollis
- Comprehensive Training Manual — Nemonik ThinkingDr Auke Schade
- This is DyslexiaKate Griggs
- The Case Against EducationBryan Caplan
- Bird by BirdAnne Lamott
- Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke
- The Heart ArousedDavid Whyte
Papers and method
- Augmenting Human IntellectDouglas C. Engelbart
- Social Media Interventions Targeting Exercise and Diet in NCDsMcKeon et al.
- Analysis and Assessment of Gateway ProcessLt. Col. Wayne McDonnell
- Soviet and Czechoslovakian Parapsychology ResearchMaire & LaMothe
- Teleportation Physics StudyEric W. Davis
- Topological Signal ProcessingMichael Robinson
- Toward a Spectral Theory of Cellular SheavesHansen & Ghrist
- Detection Theory - A User's GuideMacmillan & Creelman
Aotearoa
- Once Were WarriorsAlan Duff
- A Conversation with my CountryAlan Duff
- No Ordinary SunHone Tuwhare
Fiction that did work
- SolarisStanisław Lem
- The CyberiadStanisław Lem
- AnathemNeal Stephenson
- The Book of the New SunGene Wolfe
- The TellingUrsula K. Le Guin
- The Jesus IncidentFrank Herbert & Bill Ransom
- Manifold: TimeStephen Baxter
- Manifold: OriginStephen Baxter
- RecursionTony Ballantyne
- MetropolisThea von Harbou
- The Shadow over InnsmouthH. P. Lovecraft
- Going to Meet the ManJames Baldwin
- Learning to Live FinallyJacques Derrida
228 books, and a title only moves onto this page once I have finished it. New titles land here as they finish. If one belongs on it, send it to me.
228 books. One only appears here once I have finished it. New books appear here as I finish them. If one belongs on this list, send it to me.
Where this comes from
Behind this list sits a private system that holds what I read: every book worked through into notes, every claim carrying how well it is corroborated and whether anyone has tried to break it, and the whole thing cross-linked so a new book collides with what is already there. This page is the shallow end of it — the titles, and the notes as they get written.
Behind this list is a private system that holds everything I read. Every book gets worked through into notes. Every claim gets marked with how many separate sources back it and whether anyone has tried to knock it down. It is all cross-linked, so a new book runs into what is already in there and the disagreements surface. This page is the shallow end: the titles, and the notes as I write them.
Notes
What a book changed, written up after the fact. A note here means I read the whole thing and something in my work moved because of it.
I read slowly and I write the note only once the book has been used for something. That is why there are fewer notes than books, and why the notes are late.
Functional Programming in Scala
2026-08A programming textbook that turned out to be about how to audit a house.