Books

Everything I've finished, newest first, plus whatever is open «on my desk» right now. I read slowly and in three languages, so the list is shorter than I'd like and stranger than I expect — exercise physiology next to Hasidic philosophy, with a novel wedged in between.

Nothing here is a review. If a book made me write something, that something lives in writings.

Reading now

4 open

Book cover for Epictetus: The Complete Works — Handbook, Discourses & Fragments, edited and translated by Robin Waterfield. The minimalist design uses soft beige and gray tones with blurred vertical shadows and elegant black-and-white typography.

Title: The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments
Author: Epictetus
Started: 2026-08-03
Pages: 476
Language: en
Format: ebook
Why?: Turns out reading rehashed modern takes isn’t all that interesting, so I decided to start with the originals.

Book cover for A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen, with a bright yellow background and a purple wristband reading “Stop Complaining” and “Start Living.” The cover describes it as a revised and updated international bestseller.

Title: A Complaint Free World: Stop Complaining, Start Living
Author: Will Bowen
Started: 2026-08-01
Pages: 288
Language: en
Format: ebook
Why?: A self-help book that you obviously don't need to read, since the whole thing is summed up in the title. But why not? :)

Title: Стоицизм как образ жизни. 52 недели самосовершенствования
Author: Грегори Лопес, Массимо Пильюччи
Started: 2026-07-30
Pages: 432
Language: ru
Format: audio
Why?: There’s no point in reading anything without putting it into practice, but I don’t want to come up with exercises of my own just yet, so I’ll try taking something from here.

Book cover for the fourth edition of Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger and Scott Douglas. A marathon runner crosses a rain-soaked course with both arms raised, while other runners follow behind. The cover notes a foreword by Emily Sisson.

Title: Advanced Marathoning
Author: Pete Pfitzinger, Scott Douglas
Started: 2026-06-01
Pages: 296
Language: en
Format: ebook
Why?: One of the books you have to read if you are into running.

This year: 2 books

All time: 2 books

Reading now: 4

Average book: 183 pages

Longest: 295 pages

Abandoned: 1

ru 100%

ebook 50% · audio 50%

Finished

Newest first, grouped by the year I closed the book. The square left of each title is my rating out of five — green is a keeper, amber a fair read, coral a book I finished out of stubbornness.

2026

2 books · 365 pages