Here is a collection of some of the books reviews I am most proud of. The rest of my reviews can be found on my Goodreads account: here.
Philosophy
- SANTAYANA
- PLATO
- Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (Various)
- Letters from a Stoic (Seneca)
- The Analysis of Mind (Russell)
- Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (Kojéve)
- Stoic Pragmatism (Lachs)
- The Righteous Mind (Haidt)
- The Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel)
- The World as Will and Representation (Schopenhauer)
- Being and Nothingness (Sartre)
- Rameau’s Nephew & D’Alembert’s Dream (Diderot)
- Emile (Rousseau)
- A Guide to the Good Life (Irvine)
- The Discourses (Epictetus)
- Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
- Language, Truth, and Logic (Ayer)
- The Concept of Mind (Ryle)
- Essential Writings (Plotinus)
- The Story of Philosophy (Durant)
History & Social Science
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (Shirer)
- The Euro (Stiglitz)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty)
- Good Economics for Hard Times (Banerjee & Duflo)
- A World Undone (Meyer)
- Postwar (Judt)
- The Spanish Labyrinth (Brenan)
- A People’s History of the United States (Zinn)
- 722 Miles (Hood)
- The History of England (Macaulay)
- A Study of History (Toynbee)
- The Decline of the West (Spengler)
- The Battle for Spain (Beevor)
- The History of Western Music (Grout & Palisca)
- The Lessons of History (Durant)
- Imperial Spain (Elliott)
- Europe: A History (Davies)
- Moorish Spain (Fletcher)
- The New Spaniards (Hooper)
- People of the Plain (Gilmore)
- People of the Sierra (Pitt-Rivers)
- Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen)
Politics & Public Policy
- A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Harvey)
- Manufacturing Consent (Herman & Chomsky)
- Private Health, Public Guns (Hemenway)
- A Very Stable Genius (Rucker & Leonnig)
- Rage (Woodward)
- Deadliest Enemy (Osterholm & Olshaker)
- Priced Out (Reinhardt)
- Paying the Price (Goldrick-Bar)
- The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? (Davis)
- We Were Eight Years in Power (Coates)
- When Work Disappears (Wilson)
- Tightrope (Kristoff & WuDunn)
- Evicted (Desmond)
- What’s Up with Catalonia? (Various)
Religion
- Why Buddhism is True (Wright)
- The Guide of the Perplexed (Maimonides)
- City of God (Augustine)
- Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin)
- Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Trungpa)
- Spiritual Exercises (Ignatius of Loyola)
- Interior Castle (Teresa of Ávila)
- The Power of Myth (Campbell)
- How to Meditate (Chödrön)
- The Upanishads
- Three Zen Sutras
- The Lotus Sutra
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Quran
Literature & Poetry
- HEMINGWAY
- Selected Poetry (Blake)
- Selected Poetry (Keats)
- Rimas y Leyendas (Bécquer)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
- In Search of Lost Time (Proust)
- The Captive and the Fugitive (Proust)
- The Jungle (Sinclair)
- IRVING
- Poet in New York (Lorca)
- CAMUS
- The Trial (Kafka)
- Middlemarch (Eliot)
- Bleak House (Dickens)
- Faust (Goethe)
- The Magic Mountain (Mann)
- Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
- Collected Poems (Dickinson)
- The Odyssey (Homer)
- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
- Père Goriot (Balzac)
- The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
- Fortunata y Jacinta (Galdós)
Drama
- Three Theban Plays (Sophocles)
- The Oresteia (Aeschylus)
- SHAKESPEARE
Biography & Travel
- John Adams (McCullough)
- Alexander Hamilton (Chernow)
- Lives of the Artists (Vasari)
- Parallel Lives (Plutarch)
- Stones of Venice (Ruskin)
- The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
- Ghosts of Spain (Tremlett)
- The Ornament of the World (Menocal)
- Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin)
- Storm of Steel (Jünger)
- The Power Broker (Caro)
- Autobiography (Cellini)
- The World of Yesterday (Zweig)
- SARAH BAKEWELL
- Homage to Catalonia (Orwell)
- Confessions (Rousseau)
- Gatherings from Spain (Ford)
- A Time of Gifts (Fermor)
- The Bible in Spain (Borrow)
- Iberia (Michener)
- South from Granada (Brenan)
Essays, Commentary, & Criticism
- Selected Writing (Ruskin)
- Miró—Painter of the Stars
- Gaudí—Visionary Architect
- JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
- Picasso (Masterpieces)
- Sorolla (Masterworks)
- Shakespearean Tragedy (Bradley)
- Our Lord Don Quixote (Unamuno)
- Working (Terkel)
- A Sand County Almanac (Leopold)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs)
- How the Other Half Lives (Riis)
- Walden (Thoreau)
- A Collection of Essays (Orwell)
- Do What You Love (Tokumitsu)
- Modern Romance (Anzari & Klinenberg)
- Excellent Sheep (Deresiewics)
- The Western Canon (Bloom)
Science & Math
- GALILEO
- NEWTON
- ARISTOTLE
- Epitome of Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World (Kepler)
- On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Copernicus)
- Almagest (Ptolemy)
- Treatise on Light (Huygens)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn)
- The Copernican Revolution (Kuhn)
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper)
- Defending Science—Within Reason (Haack)
- SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL
- Silent Spring (Carson)
- The Ascent of Man (Bronowski)
- The Works of Archimedes
- Experimental Researches in Electricity (Faraday)
- Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (Maxwell)
Practical
- Cracking the GRE (Princeton Review)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)
- Cooking in Spain (Mendel)
- Tools for Teaching (Jones)
- BURNS
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