Every Book Cited on This Site: The Bookshelf
Sortable, and honest about which of these I have read and which I only know at working distance.
Every work cited on this site, and the state of my reading in each one.
The method behind these essays refuses to blur what has been read with what is merely known about. The same rule binds me here. There are three states.
- Read. I have read the work itself, in whole.
- Read as reference. I have read parts of it closely and used them, and I have not read the whole. The parts I leaned on are real reading. The rest of the book is not mine to speak for.
- Working distance. I know it by excerpt, summary, secondary discussion, or reputation. It is here as a pointer for your reading, never as a work I claim to have digested.
A work changes state when I have read it, not when an essay leans on it harder.
Every title below links to the work itself, not to my writing about it: the publisher’s page for a book, and the full text where the work is free to read, as it is for Augustine, Mohler, Karpathy, Luhmann and LangChain. Go and read the source. The last column is the other direction, and it is the smaller of the two: it says where on this site the work is actually used, so you can see what I did with it. Sort the table by any column, or filter it to one state at a time.
| Author | Work | Year | Read state | Cited in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahrens, Sönke | How to Take Smart Notes A popular account of Luhmann’s note method. The author’s own page for the book. | 2017 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki, as further reading |
| Alcoholics Anonymous World Services | Alcoholics Anonymous (the Big Book), 4th edition The founding text of Twelve Step work. The publisher’s own page; the full text is not free to read there. | 2001 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Augustine | On Christian Teaching (De doctrina Christiana), Book II, chapter 40 On the Christian use of learning found outside the church. Full text, Shaw translation. | c. 397 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Carnes, Patrick | Facing the Shadow: Starting Sexual and Relationship Recovery, 3rd edition The thirty-task model of recovery, and the model I am trained and certified in as a CSAT. The publisher’s page. | 2015 | Read | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Das, Hernandez Larios, Nigam, Kolan & Singhal | Agent Skills, in Google and Kaggle’s five-day AI agents whitepaper series Where the pass^k arithmetic, boundedness and trajectory-over-output evaluation come from. The paper itself, free to read; the byline above is taken from it rather than from a summary. | 2026 | Working distance | The Delegate-Downwards Ratchet |
| Johnson, Susan M. | The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection, 3rd edition Emotionally focused couple therapy at book length. The publisher’s page. | 2019 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Karpathy, Andrej | LLM wiki sketch A public note proposing a plain text wiki that a language model keeps. The note itself. | n.d. | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| LangChain | Improving deep agents with harness engineering The measured result behind the claim that the harness, not the model, moved a coding agent twenty-five leaderboard places. The team’s own writeup, free to read. | 2026 | Working distance | The Delegate-Downwards Ratchet |
| Luhmann, Niklas | Kommunikation mit Zettelkästen Luhmann’s own account of his slip box, in the Niklas Luhmann Archive’s record of it. An English translation is online. | 1981 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Mohler, R. Albert | A Call for Theological Triage and Christian Maturity The essay that named theological triage. Full text, free, on the author’s site. | 2005 | Read | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Ohno, Taiichi | Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production Just in time manufacturing, set out by the man who built it. The publisher’s page. | 1988 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Ortlund, Gavin | Finding the Right Hills to Die On: The Case for Theological Triage Theological triage at book length. The publisher’s page. | 2020 | Read | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Siegel, Daniel J. | The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, 3rd edition The founding statement of interpersonal neurobiology. The publisher’s page. | 2020 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
| Van Til, Cornelius | The Defense of the Faith The presuppositional case in apologetics. The publisher’s page for the fourth edition, which restores the full 1955 text. | 1955 | Working distance | The Presuppositional LLM Wiki |
Disclosure
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