Jared Forth
Year In Books

2023

  1. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

    James Bridle

    2023/02/20

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  2. Beautiful Racket

    Matthew Butterick

    2023/04/06

    - / 5 ⭐️


  3. Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    Italo Calvino

    2023/03/12

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  4. Only Words

    Catharine A. MacKinnon

    2023/12/18

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  5. How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment

    Skye Cleary

    2023/05/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  6. Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

    Russell D. Moore

    2023/11/14

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  7. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

    Jonathan Haidt

    2023/11/14

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  8. The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

    Dalai Lama XIV

    2023/10/12

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  9. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    2023/10/18

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  10. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

    Shunryu Suzuki

    2023/10/23

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  11. Zen and the Birds of Appetite

    Thomas Merton

    2023/09/13

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  12. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

    Richard P. Feynman

    2023/03/02

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  13. Mystics and Zen Masters

    Thomas Merton

    2023/12/29

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  14. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

    Robert M. Pirsig

    2023/02/09

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  15. Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

    Thich Nhat Hanh

    2023/12/31

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  16. The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number

    Gottlob Frege

    2023/12/28

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  17. The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World

    Peter Singer

    2023/12/22

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  18. Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

    Martha C. Nussbaum

    2023/12/19

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  19. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

    Ibram X. Kendi

    2023/12/12

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  20. Where the Crawdads Sing

    Delia Owens

    2023/11/20

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  21. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    Ibram X. Kendi

    2023/11/12

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  22. Jesus and the Disinherited

    Howard Thurman

    2023/11/12

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  23. Pure Colour

    Sheila Heti

    2023/11/06

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  24. Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

    Amber Scorah

    2023/11/01

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  25. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

    Matthew Vines

    2023/11/01

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  26. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

    Sheera Frenkel

    2023/10/30

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  27. Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

    Eli Saslow

    2023/10/26

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  28. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

    Robin DiAngelo

    2023/10/20

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  29. Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values

    Marshall B. Rosenberg

    2023/10/10

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  30. Learned by Heart

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/10/09

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  31. The Perpetual Beginner: a musician's path to lifelong learning

    Dave Isaacs

    2023/10/05

    - / 5 ⭐️


  32. Astray

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/06/13

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  33. Silas Marner

    George Eliot

    2023/09/27

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  34. Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

    Carolyn Chen

    2023/09/25

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  35. Jazz and Blues Bass Lines: Constructing and Applying Bass Lines

    Bruce E. Arnold

    2023/09/21

    - / 5 ⭐️


  36. A Room of One’s Own

    Virginia Woolf

    2023/09/21

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  37. Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

    Edgar H. Schein

    2023/09/19

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  38. The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion

    Tony McAleer

    2023/09/18

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  39. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    Caroline Criado Pérez

    2023/09/18

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  40. God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

    Stephen Prothero

    2023/09/06

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  41. Sprechakte und unsprechbare Akte

    Rae Langton

    2023/09/06

    - / 5 ⭐️


  42. Pursuit of Truth

    Willard Van Orman Quine

    2023/09/05

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  43. On Certainty

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

    2023/09/01

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  44. Women Talking

    Miriam Toews

    2023/03/28

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  45. The Essential Schopenhauer

    Arthur Schopenhauer

    2023/08/21

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  46. Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

    Stephen Batchelor

    2023/08/17

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  47. Did God Really Command Genocide?: Coming to Terms with the Justice of God

    Paul Copan

    2023/08/14

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  48. The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    2023/08/07

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  49. Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

    Rob Bell

    2023/08/04

    - / 5 ⭐️


  50. Under the Jaguar Sun

    Italo Calvino

    2023/08/04

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  51. Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

    Mark Epstein

    2023/08/04

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  52. Systematic Theology, Vol 1

    Paul Tillich

    2023/07/24

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  53. The Pull of the Stars

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/07/24

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  54. Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Shelby Van Pelt

    2023/07/07

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  55. In Defence of Food

    Michael Pollan

    2023/07/21

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  56. Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    2023/07/19

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  57. The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross

    Jon Meacham

    2023/07/08

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  58. Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason

    Immanuel Kant

    2023/07/06

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  59. Why Read the Classics?

    Italo Calvino

    2023/07/05

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  60. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

    Michael Schur

    2023/06/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  61. The Complete Cosmicomics

    Italo Calvino

    2023/06/20

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  62. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

    Rick Rubin

    2023/06/19

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  63. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Zora Neale Hurston

    2023/06/08

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  64. Naming and Necessity

    Saul A. Kripke

    2023/02/06

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  65. On Human Nature

    Roger Scruton

    2023/06/06

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  66. Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

    Christopher Phillips

    2023/06/02

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  67. Johnny Got His Gun

    Dalton Trumbo

    2023/05/31

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  68. Proof! How the World Became Geometrical

    Amir Alexander

    2023/05/26

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  69. On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life (Guides to the Good Life)

    Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

    2023/05/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  70. Design School: Type: A Practical Guide for Students and Designers

    Richard Poulin

    2023/05/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  71. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    Erik J. Larson

    2023/05/26

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  72. Matter: A Very Short Introduction

    Geoff Cottrell

    2023/05/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  73. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

    John Koenig

    2023/05/26

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  74. The History of Philosophy

    A.C. Grayling

    2023/05/26

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  75. Antiquities

    Cynthia Ozick

    2023/05/18

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  76. Where Reasons End

    Yiyun Li

    2023/05/11

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  77. Mindfulness for Beginners: Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment

    Jon Kabat-Zinn

    2023/05/09

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  78. Silence: In the Age of Noise

    Erling Kagge

    2023/05/09

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  79. Socrates: A Life Worth Living

    Devra Lehmann

    2023/05/09

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  80. Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts (Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities)

    Daniel Albright

    2023/05/09

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  81. Design: A Very Short Introduction

    John Heskett

    2023/05/09

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  82. The Art of Loving

    Erich Fromm

    2023/05/08

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  83. The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

    David Gelernter

    2023/05/08

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  84. Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise

    Justin Zorn

    2023/05/07

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  85. Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton Classics)

    Susan Neiman

    2023/05/01

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  86. No One Goes Alone

    Erik Larson

    2023/04/29

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  87. After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path

    Jack Kornfield

    2023/04/27

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  88. STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

    Dan Lyons

    2023/04/25

    - / 5 ⭐️


  89. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

    Stuart Jeffries

    2023/04/24

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  90. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

    Michael Pollan

    2023/04/22

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  91. The Philosophy of Modern Song

    Bob Dylan

    2023/04/20

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  92. If Beale Street Could Talk

    James Baldwin

    2023/04/14

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  93. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Milan Kundera

    2023/04/13

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  94. Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

    Susan Neiman

    2023/04/11

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  95. Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    2023/04/08

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  96. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

    Carlo Rovelli

    2023/02/20

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  97. Notes of a Native Son

    James Baldwin

    2023/04/01

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  98. Sight Reading: From the series...The Complete Drummer

    Paul Kairis

    2023/03/29

    - / 5 ⭐️


  99. The Fire Next Time

    James Baldwin

    2023/03/25

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  100. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

    Nicholas Buccola

    2023/03/23

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  101. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body

    Steven Mithen

    2023/03/19

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  102. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix

    Charles R. Cross

    2023/03/11

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  103. Invisible Cities

    Italo Calvino

    2023/03/06

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  104. Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy

    Whitney Goodman

    2023/03/06

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  105. The Measure of a Man (Facets)

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    2023/03/03

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  106. Made for Friendship: The Relationship That Halves Our Sorrows and Doubles Our Joys

    Drew Hunter

    2023/03/03

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  107. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

    Bill Clegg

    2023/02/26

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  108. Frog Music

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/02/23

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  109. The White Tiger

    Aravind Adiga

    2023/02/20

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  110. Room

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/02/18

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  111. The Wonder

    Emma Donoghue

    2023/02/14

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  112. Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Volume 1

    Ted Greene

    2023/01/29

    - / 5 ⭐️


  113. All My Puny Sorrows

    Miriam Toews

    2023/02/13

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  114. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

    Isabel Wilkerson

    2023/01/29

    5 / 5 ⭐️


  115. Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music (Music Pro Guides)

    Andy Hill

    2023/01/21

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  116. The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    2023/01/20

    2 / 5 ⭐️


  117. The Consolations of Philosophy

    Alain de Botton

    2023/01/18

    3 / 5 ⭐️


  118. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

    Bessel van der Kolk

    2023/01/13

    4 / 5 ⭐️


  119. Music as an Art

    Roger Scruton

    2023/01/02

    4 / 5 ⭐️