Bora Uyumazturk

Reading List

Here is a list of what I've been reading, organized by year. Some of them contain links to brief reviews. I've split the titles up by genre to make things easier to navigate. Hopefully you find it helpful.

2024

Fiction

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

Art and Criticism

Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America (in progress)
Bridgeman's Life Drawing
The Practice of Oil Painting and Drawing by Solomon J Solomon
Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
The Pracice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
Men and Memories by William Rothenstein
Sargent & Spain by Cash, Kilmurray, and Ormond
Peter Paul Rubens, Paintings, Oilsketches, Drawings
Sorolla: The Masterworks by Blanca Pans-Sorolla

Chess

Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Seirawan (in progress)
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (in progress)

2023

Art and Criticism

Farber on Film by Manny Farber
Modern Art by Meyer Schapiro
Into Words by Carroll Dunham
Faux Pas. by Amy Sillman
Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick
Impressionism by Meyer Schapiro (in progress)
Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (in progress)
Velazquez: The Complete Works (in progress)

Fiction

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (in progress)

Nonfiction

Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Fischer, Margulies, and Mosenfelder
The Reckoning by David Halberstam
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Dear Theo by Vincent Van Gogh
Le piccoli virtu by Natalia Ginsburg
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland

Language

Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas

Technical

Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra by Hirsch and Smale (in progress)
The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritche (in progress)

Business

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
The Qualified Sales Leader by John McMahon
Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing Powerpoint by Robert Gaskins
The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Demonstrating to Win by Robert Riefstahl
Just F*ing Demo! by Rob Falcone
Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin

2022

Art and Criticism

The Salon of 1846 by Baudelaire
After Caravaggio by Michael Fried
Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter by Paul Gauguin
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix
Caravaggio: His Incongruity and his Fame by Bernard Berenson
Essays One by Lydia Davis
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Travel Writing

The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk
When the Going Was Good by Evelyn Waugh
The Amur River by Colin Thubron

Fiction

The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

Literary Nonfiction

The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell

History

The Radical Potter by Tristram Hunt
A Short History of Islamic Thought by Fitzroy Morrissey

Business

Oglivy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christensen
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

Miscellaneous

Writing That Works by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
To Show and To Tell by Phillip Lopate
Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte

2021

Nonfiction

On Board by John Tusa
How We Work and Why by E. Hunter Harrison
Turkish Reflections by Mary Lee Settle
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
The Sweet Science by A.J. Leibling
Martin Luther by Peter Stanford

Criticism

See/Saw by Geoff Dyer

Technical

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (in progress)
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans (in progress)

Art Books / Graphic Novels

Out-of-body Free-hand Circles by Tom Marioni
unfinished... by Tom Neely
The Delicacy by James Albon

2020

Plays

Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Love's Labour's Lost (in progress)
The Taming of the Shrew
The Comedy of Errors
Titus Andronicus
Measure for Measure
All's Well That Ends Well
Othello
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar

Poetry

A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge (in progress)
The Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen (in progress)

Fiction

Pew by Catherine Lacey
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher Beha
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

Non-fiction

The National Road by Tom Zoellner
The New Wine Rules by Jon Bonné
Words Like Loaded Pistols by Sam Leith
The Shortest History of England by James Hawes
Initmations by Zadie Smith

Criticism

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt (in progress)
The Essays of Leonard Michaels

Technical

Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (in progress)
Data Analysis for Politics and Policy by Edward Tufte
Statistical Models and Causal Inference by David Freedman (in progress)

2019

Poetry

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
The Complete Poems of George Herbert

Fiction

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
The Comforters by Murial Spark
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Chemistry by Weike Wang
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday

Nonfiction

Mistreated by Robert Pearl
Between Meals by A.J. Leibling
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis