Reading List

1. Friedrich Holderlin, Hyperion (Finished in June 2014).
2. Erich Fromm, The Art of Being (Finished in July 2014).
3. Thomas Moore, The Soul of Sex (Finished in August 2014).
4. Theodore Roethke, Poetry & Craf (Finished in September 2014).
5. Gaston Bachelard, La dialectique de la durée (Started in October 2014, couldn’t finish).
6. Adam Ford, The Art of Mindful Walking (Finished November 2014).
7. Alain de Botton & John Armstrong, Art as Therapy (Finished January 2015).
   
8. Gaston Bachelard, La flamme d’une chandelle (Finished February 2015).
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays. (Finished December 2015).
10. Gaston Bachelard, Fragments d’une Poétique du Feu (Finished September 2015).
11. Rumi, Selected Poems (Finished, February 2016).
12. Milan Kundera, The Lightness of Being (Finished October 2015).
13. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (Finished November 2015).
14. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (Abandoned reading).
15. Gaston Bachelard, La poétique de l’espace (Finished, March 2016).
16. David Whyte, The House of Belonging (Finished, March 2016).
17. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Second read).
18. Bélinda Ibrahim, Ces Amours de Papier qui Prennent L’Eau (Finished, April 2016).
19. Paul Eluard, Capital de la douleur et L’amour la poésie (Abandoned reading).
20. Haiku, Anthologie du poème court japonais (Finished, May 2016).
21. David Whyte, Consolations (Finished, May 216).
22. Soren Kierkegaard, The Seducer’s Diary (Finished, June 2016).
23. Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (abandonned reading)
24. French poetry anthology, translated into Arabic (Finished, July 2016)
25. Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death (abandoned reading at page 130/165).
26. Nuccio Ordine, Une année avec les classiques (Finished, July 2016)
27. A’ishah Al-Ba’uniyyah, The Principles of Sufism (abandoned reading)
28. Baltasar Gracian, How to Use Your Enemies  (Finished, August 2016)
29. Gaston Bachelard, Le droit de rêver (Finished, October 2016)
30. Hafez, The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door (Finished, September 2016)
31. Dover Thrift Editions, 100 Best-Loved Poems, edited by Philip Smith (Finished, November 2016)
32. Soren Kierkegaard, The lily of the field and the bird of the air (Finished, November 2016)
33. Writings from the Zen Masters, Penguin Books (Finished, November 2016)
34. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Second Read, finished in February 2017)
35. The Classic Tradition of Haiku, An Anthology Edited by Faubion Bowers (Finished, December 2016)
36. Ghada Jabak, Réseaux Désirs et Illusion (Finished, December 2016)
37. Askinia Mihaylova, Ciel A Perdre  (abandoned reading)
38. Great Short Poems from Around the World, Edited by Bob Blaisdell (Finished, January 2017)
39. Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes  (Finished, February 2017)
40. Rumi & Shams, Soul Fury (Finished, March 2017)
41. Francois Cheng, Cinqu Méditations sur la Mort, autrement dit sur la vie (abandoned reading)
42. David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man (Finished, April 2017)
43. Forough Farrokhzad, Another Birth and other poems (finished, April 2017)
44. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Moral (finished, September 2017)
45. Matsuo Basho, Basho, Seigneur ermite (abandoned reading close to the book’s end; I didn’t like the translation)
46. Speaking of Siva (Finished, June 2017)
47. Gaston Bachelard, L’Air et les Songe (Finished, December 2017)
48. Rumi, The Book of Love (2nd read in six years, finished in October 2017 in Batroun as the sun descended into the sea)
49. David Deida, Wild Nights (Finished, November 2017)
50. Fabrice Midal, Pourquoi la poésie? (Finished, February 2018)
51. Alain de Botton, The New (Finished, March 2018)
52. Hermann Hesse, The Seasons of the Soul (Finished, March 2018)
53. Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption (Finished, April 2018)
54. اليف شافاق، قوعد العشق الأربعون (Finished, May 2018)
55. Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, The Ink Dark Moon (Finished, June 2018)
56. Olivier Manaud, Musique et prière (Finished, June 2018)
57. Isabelle Filliozard, L’intelligence du Coeur (Finished, September 2018)
58. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Finished, September 2018)
59. Frédéric Brun, Novalis et l’âme poétique du monde (Finished, October 2018)
    
60.  (Finished, October 2018)أجمل حكايات الزن وفن الهايكو
61. Pablo d’Ors, Biographie due silence (Finished, November 2018)
62. Rumi, The Rumi Daybook (Reading postponed)
63. Jenny Svanberg, The Psychology of Addiction  (Finished, January 2019)
64. François Jacqmin, Le Livre de la neige (Finished, February 2019)
65. Cicero, How to Grow Old (Finished, January 2019)
66. Mircea Eliad, Aspect du mythe (Finished)
67. Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life
68. T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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