Antilibrary

Rows and rows of unread books

If only there were an award for being a book collector, I would be a world champion by now.

Published by Vincent Suryakim on Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026

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Technically yes, I could write a whole paragraph here about how I just learned about this new and life-changing concept that is called an antilibrary that everybody—and I mean everybody—must incorporate into their livelihoods so that we can finally improve ourselves as a human being and become more productive in society.

But no. It is with my greatest regret that my mind cannot (nor would I) fathom even the lowest level of cliché this writing would contain if such a thing would happen. Instead, I will just put a link here so that you can read all about it, and I will present to you: my life's library.

My library isn't the kind that would conform to a 3-step buy, read, store process. Instead, it is like an ocean—deep and fascinating like Mariana, but also sheathed with tranquility. It is not an anchor keeping me aground and reminding me of what I have learned; but it is a sail gently catching the wind and pushing me forward—beyond the horizon.

Here are its unread contents:

• To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
• The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business & Life — Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
• Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
• Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
• The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
• The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• The Odyssey — Homer
• 1984 — George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
• The Art of War — Sun Tzu
• The Prince — Niccolo Machiavelli